Video: Barack Obama inauguration: 'I love Michelle and her bangs!' You understood this was not just about a candidate, Joe Biden or Barack Obama, this was about us and who we are as a nation, what values we cherish, how hard we're willing to fight to make sure those values live not just for today but for future generations. All of you here understood and were committed to the basic notion that when you put your shoulder to the wheels of history it moves, it moves, it moves forward.