To replicate some of this success , Obama will need to figure out how to inspire a nation that is frustrated by the gridlock of Washington and the laggard state of the economy and worried about instability overseas . Julian Zelizer : Second term inaugural addresses are always a challenge . He says the public has had four years to make a judgment about the president . Obama can learn from second term speeches of Lincoln , Wilson , FDR . The first two were very successful in their time and they didn't have much support for what was going on at home or abroad.
Julian Zelizer : Second term inaugural addresses are always a challenge . He says the public has had four years to make a judgment about the president . Obama can learn from second term speeches of Lincoln , Wilson , FDR . The first two were very successful in their time and they didn't have much support for what was going on at home or abroad.