Barack Obama's Speech


Today I'd like to talk about President Barack Obama's speech. There are three reasons why I chose this topic.
1. I want to speak like Obama
2. I want to learn recitations, repetitions and rhetoric from his speech
3. It's been four years since he was appointed President of America. If I emulate his speech, what kind of responses do I get from the audience now?

Here's Obama's speech given at his inauguration ceremony on 2nd of February, 2008.
"We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
For when we have faced down impossible odds, when we've been told we're not ready or that we shouldn't try or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a smile creed that sums up the spirit of a people.
Yes, we can. Yes, we can.
It was creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights: Yes, we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness:
Yes, we can.
It was the call of workers who organized, women who reached for the ballot, a president who chose the moon as our new frontier, and a king who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the promised land:
Yes, we can, to justice and eqaulity.
Yes, we can, to opportunity and prosperity. Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can repair this world.
Yes, we can."

When I was a honcho at a Japanese chemical company, I demanded "CHANGE! CHANGE! CHANGE!"
Soon I got dismissed.

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