Perspectives

In this part of the speech, we will give you some points that can help you put Barack Obama’s speech in perspectives. We will first give you a few points related to Barack Obama’s presidency, after which we will relate “The American Promise” to other speech…

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Time perspective and current issues

On the 28th of August, 2008, Obama delivered the nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention in Denver, Colorado. A few months later, in November 2008, Obama won the presidency of the United States with 365 electoral votes, against John McCain, who only received 173 electoral votes. Consequently, Obama became the 44th President of the United States and also the first …

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Textual perspective

If you choose to compare Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech with other speeches, we advise you to focus on the comparison with Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2008 Democratic Convention.

During her speech, Michelle Obama talked about her husband, whom she portrayed as a leader, father, husband, hard-working man, an ambitious college graduate and, finally, as a perfect presidential figure. In his speech, Barack Obama does not focus on himself as president. On the c…