Obamaaaaaaaaaa!

After reading Obama’s speech, I think it makes it a little easier to focus on what he’s saying rather than how he delivers it. Certainly seeing the speech you get the whole sense of how he feels, but at the same time you can get caught up in the tone of his voice or what he’s acting out instead of the words. Anyways, what I really liked about his speech was how he is thinking about the true middle class and less fortunate members of our country. He states that our government should “help us, not hurt us.” He has an excellent point here, also mentioning that the average income as gone down during Bush’s presidency, which I was not aware of. Another thing I thought about after reading this is the question many people are asking such as ‘is our nation ready for a black president?’ Although I think we are ready as long as they were the right person for the job, I know much of that nation is against it which I think is completely insane. For a while, I have thought that John McCain was going to win simply because he has the better stats as far as what people have voted for in the past, but to hear Obama make these points about him I hope people don’t rule him out because he is not the typical president

clinton speech

Well, besides the fact that people are extremely annoying and need to just sit down and let him speak I think this was a strong speech, just questionable.
I'm not sure why, but this speech made me think about how much you can really trust that Clinton truly believes what he is saying. I suppose it could be because I wonder how much money he got every time he said 'Barack Obama' in his speech.. (which was probably around 15 times) I really hope he believes in what he is preaching, but no one will ever really know if he's just doing it for the campaign. If he was lying, it was certainly believable because he appeared to sincerely mean it, but he's had enough practice in politics, speeches and being in the public eye to be able to cover things up. Another thing I was wondering, is whether or not this will even have that much of an influence on how people will vote. I imagine there are some die hard Clinton fans that will just vote for Obama because he supports him, but I wonder if there is anyone who was on the fence on who to vote for before and decided by listening to this speech. Clinton wasn't known as being an amazing president (at least through my understanding) because of the scandals he was in until Bush came into office and people saw how much worse things could be, so how influential is he now?