Barack Obama’s speech Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The main message of Barack Obama's victory speech is to make a change. To improve the country at all levels and make it a safer place for the population. With some cooperation, they can make a change together. Obama will fight for a better country, a country with equal rights. It dosen't matter where you came from, if you are black or white, gay, straight, disabled or not disabled. Everyone should have the same rights and be treated the same way.
He wants to fight for the financial difficulties that America has been exposed of. In eight years, America has suffered out of financial difficulties. This is still a big problem in America. But Obama has promised to do something about this. And this are going be the first thing that he will be deal with.
I think a lot of people voted for Obama because of this. What Ameica needs right now is a change. But I also think that a lot of people elected Obama as a president because of his good experience, his calmness and his positive thoughts and hopes. He make his listeners to believe in a change. The population has high expectations, and Obama has for now a hard job to deal with. I hope that he reaches his goal and
doesn’t make his people disappointed.

Barack Obama is a very good speaker. To reach his fellow creatures, he uses a language that’s easy for the population to understand. He uses a simple vocabulary and avoid complicated words. In this way, people can understand his message easier. This even broadens his audience. By speaking in a language everyone understands, he also reaches the younger people in the country. Barack Obama speaks in a very skilful way. He sounds calm, but still convincing. What he says really comes from the heart.

In Barack Obama’s victory speech, he talks about a woman whose name is Ann Nixon Cooper. She is 106 years old and still alive. She has seen a lot of changes in America during all her years. In some way you can say that this is a living proof that nothing is impossible. What Ann experienced in her childhood, doesn’t exists today. This is because of all the changes that America has been through. To change something can take a long time, maybe years. But in the end it’s worth all the effort and toil. I think that Obama uses these particular references becaus he wants to prove that they can make this changes together. All they have to do is fight for their rights!

"And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn - I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your president too." I chose this part of the text because I thought it has a beautiful sense. It shows that he cares about the entire population and even about the people who didn’t voted of him. He knows that they might be a little bit disappointed, and although he didn’t won their votes, he says that he hear their voices, need their help and will work with them too.

My question: Do you think that Barack Obama was elected as a president because of his personality, or because of the peoples desperation to get rid of the financial difficulties?