President Obama: The Audacity of Hope

Today, just for a while, I’m going to let words fail me, and present you instead with an illustration to commemorate the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. The illustration is by Lewis Peake, the talented British political cartoonist who drew a series of five powerful pictures about Guantánamo last year, based on drawings by the imprisoned al-Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj that had been censored by the military authorities.