Wednesday, September 5, 2012
First Lady Touches Many Hearts in DNC Speech
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michelle-obamas-convention-speech-proves-to-be-shining-moment/2012/09/05/c6618e5e-f779-11e1-8b93-c4f4ab1c8d13_story.html
The first thing I noticed when i turned on the Democratic National Convention was the diversity in the speakers and the audience. I see all kinds of races from blacks to hispanics to indians and more. This can say a lot to many voters out there. In my opinion, I don't think the GOP knows whats best for this country. They dont seem to truly know what it is like to start from the bottom and work your way to the top. They don't have the first hand experiences of struggle to know what to do to help them.
On tuesday there were plenty of great speeches. Ted Strickland talked about how Obama never gave up on the auto industry and on the middle class. Lily Ledbetter talked about how Obama fought for fair play and made sure women got paid fairly and weren't getting cut short because of their gender. The speech that touched not just everybody at the convention, but also all viewers around the world, was that of Michelle Obama. Her approach to this speech was very unique because instead of going right at Mitt Romney, she talked about the the close and personal things in their lives in the White House and how even with all the stress and tension of having the job as president, his personality never budged. As she said in her speech, "After so many struggles and triumphs and moments that have tested my husband in ways I never could have imagined, I have seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are — it reveals who you are." In her speech she also talked about their backgrounds. How both of them grew up in families that struggle to make it by. They didn't have the parents with the high paying jobs or the best house to live in. However, even better, they had a family who cared and would do anything to make sure that their child's future would turn out much better than that of their own. These struggles are where Obama bases most of his decisions on. Obama's past is the reason why he fought on and made sure that the auto industry wouldn't fail. His past is the reason why he fought for fair pay for the women all over America. His past is why he knew that Obamacare would help ensure that everybody has insurance no matter how much their pay check is every 2 weeks.
The ideas and policies of the Democratic party will impact the lives of Americans in the next four years because although Obama's solutions to the problems of our economy didn't sky rocket us up and out of the recession, it made progress and gave us hope. In time, the Democratic party can drag us out of the recession and put America back on its feet. In Michelle Obama's speech she siad, "For Barack, success isn’t about how much money you make — it’s about the difference you make in people's lives." This is the kind of attitude the Democratic party has and the kind of attitude that can help America prosper the next four years.
Do you think that Romney has the capability to accomplish what Obama has? Or would he have made the Recession into the second Depression?
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