Barack Obama's victory speech Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The main message of the speech, in my opinion, is that America can change, and that it can change to a much better America. It has changed many times before to the better, and that it's never impossible to make it even better than it maybe already is.
And that he will listen to everybody and what they have to say about anything, no matter what they are, how they look etc. Even to those that didn't cast their vote on him.
And also that the people of America is going to help him make a difference, especially now when there is a financial crisis in the country.

How I think he conveys the people is that he starts by saying that if there is anyone out there who still questions the power of their democracy, they will get their answer tonight. (At the election night when he spoke after his victory).
He's got a special tone in his voice that shows he is very serious and very convincing about that he is going to make a change, a difference for the people of America and for America.
And he also has a serious face expression and he makes gestures with his hands that also, in some way, shows he really means what he says and that he has a strong belive in it.

The part I chose in his speech was when he spoke and told the people about an old, black woman who, despite her age, voted.
The old woman named Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old and was born a generation past slavery. A time where she wasn't aloud to vote because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.
She was there to witness the changes America has been through in hard and tough times and she knows that trough all, America can still change no matter what problem they face, and will continue to do so together as a nation.
I chose it because it means a lot to know that someone who has been trough so much and through all the changes and can tell us about it, knows that it will always be able to make a difference no matter how difficult or dark the times are there and Ann Nixon Cooper is a witness of all that.
It tells me that nothing is impossible no matter how hopeless it seems at the time.
If a person still has hopes that something or anything can always be better, despite how bad a situation may seem, and belives in it very hard and much, a change will come.