Lauren Kelleher
Extra Credit Blog Post #1
This article by David Harsanyi critiques President Obama’s farewell speech
saying “Last night, he offered Americans a revisionist history of his entire
presidency, casting himself as a resilient truth teller and champion of
“democracy.” The reality is quite different.” Throughout this article Harsanyi compares
Obamas farewell speech to his campaign speeches saying “his farewell
speech to the nation was
brimming with the same kind of haughty lecturing we got back then.” In addition
to comparing these speeches and aquates them for being the same, he says the
speeches themselves by saying “no matter how
meticulously Obama constructs his sentences. This isn’t exactly as blatant a
falsehood as our incoming president likes to drop on occasion, but it’s no less
misleading.”
I
love the way the president delivers speeches with his caresmatic and emotional language. My whole family went to
Barak Obama’s presidency announcement speech in 2007, and I remember being too
far away to hear and being very, very cold because I refused to but on snow
pants. However I looked up that speech a couple years ago and even as a young
politician Obama had the power to inspire American with his words. The
information in Obamas speech is subjective and there is evidence that he is
right and wrong depending which news source you use, but the way he made my mom
cry in many of his speeches is something that few people can do.
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