Coming Together As a Nation

After listening to President Obama’s Inauguration Speech, I thought he did an incredible job with his presentation and overall message drive.  Throughout President Obama’s speech, he repeats multiple times the words “We” and “Together”.  During the speech, Obama says “Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.”  Obama uses ethos throughout his entire speech just like such to make people believe we are all equal and in this together.

President Obama references back to the founding years of our country by saying “The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob. They gave to us a Republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.” This is an important part of his speech because it shows that we as the American people have to come together just like our past generations have to fix our problems now.  Obama uses the fact that the majority of people in the country are affected by the recent economy problems to unite the American people around a common cause.  The American people are looking for someone to turn to in these hard times and Obama proves to the American people that he is capable of fixing the problem.  One quote from President Obama’s speech stood out to me was when Obama said “We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American, she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.”  Obama uses real life situations to bring us together.  We as American people have the right to succeed and no one should ever be told they can’t do something.

Obama makes the American people feel like he is equal with them.  This is a fantastic quality to have as a President because as an American citizen, one wants to be able to connect with the person in charge.  No one wants to be intimidated by their president and Obama really makes the American people feel like he is there for them.  One quote that shows this is when he says “My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it – so long as we seize it together.”  Obama makes his speech personal by making himself at a level where we as a country can bond with.