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night of January 24th, 2012, Barack Obama gave the State of the
Union speech. As expected, the Republicans seemed unresponsive to his ideas, except
when Obama praised America’s armed forces and when he promised to move people
from welfare to work, and they dashed out quickly after he finished his speech.
While the Republicans were expected to act in this manner, the Democrats were
not. They followed the speech and clapped at the right times but failed to seem
fired up about what he was saying to them. Obama discussed liberal polices such
as new financial regulations, investment in clean energy, and education for the
workers of the 21st century, about which they applauded as if they
were in a fog. Except two people who seemed to follow Obama’s entire speech,
Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, Obama only had the attention of everyone in
the room twice - when Gabby Giffords walked in and when he brought up the death
of Osama bin Laden. As Obama reached his 6,986th word, it seemed as
if not all of the words spoken would be remembered.
Does it really matter about how the audience reacted? It was about what he was saying. Why don't we concentrate on what he said not on how the people who were there looked? It's irrelevant. Do you look 100% intrigued the entire time you watched it?
ReplyDeleteI know it isn't about how the audience reacted. I was mostly just trying to show how the man who wrote the article must have felt about the speech.
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