President Barack Obama; My Vision for America
President Barack Obama: My Vision for America
How will America look in four years from now? It is hard, actually impossible, to predict what is going to happen in the future. But because the elections have been going on and voting is coming to a close, I figured that my Op/Ed article should be about the visions of at least one of the candidates since there is a huge controversy between who is going to be elected president and who is worthy of the prestige position in the White House. Again, although we do not know what could potentially happen in the future, candidates that run for president “think” they can lay everything they want to “achieve” down for you.
Obama started off his speech with his accomplishments. Throughout his first term, he accomplished many great things that George Washington could not do. Obama is right about how he ended the war and sent our troops back home to their families and also, found and killed off Osama Bin Laden. I think this was a great way to start his speech because from the start, people are tuned in with what he has to say because all his great accomplishments are listed out for people to take his side in a way. He has an advantage against Romney because being the former president, people have seen what he can do and what he has done.
There are millions of people that love our dear former president, but can you acknowledge the flaws and fallacies in his speeches? This speech in particular, he was very organized, but there is one fallacy (weak analogy) that really stood out was his use of the word “change”. As I am finishing this essay, watching the news and seeing that Obama won the election must mean that his words are taken to heart and people believe in him and that he can make a change. But what is change anyway? How are we supposed to believe there will be change? Politics is a difficult subject to argue about because there are so many biases that can be taken place because people are ultimately entitled to their opinion. But when it comes to potentially being elected as president, you have to be really careful with what you say to your people because it becomes crucial when it comes down to the final stretch of elections. Every word that comes out of your mouth is important. Everyone’s eyes are on you and everyone is counting on you to do and say