In-Class Readings - Obama's Speach Edits.

Overall looking at the article, the changes that I have seen him make are just little tiny additions. Nothing to dramatic and most of the changes are adding a few words to make things more personal. Which brings me to my next point, he made these small changes to make the speach more personal. He wanted to add that affect that would make you put yourself in the shoes of others. For example look at the Ted Kennedy paragraph. Where it talks about having children with cancer and how difficult it would be. Personally when I read this article I felt the need to compare myself to this family, to step into their shoes. Or at least that is the feeling I recieved from the way President Obama stated it. I feel as if the speach was made just to almost suck up to those who are listening. Another example to prove that fact would be when it shows the multiple edits he did to the one line talking about the government. He edited it over and over until it sounded like he was talking directly to the people as if none of it was there fault and they should have been provided with the governments help in the first place. He is trying to make himself sound as if he is one of the normal everday Americans, and although I have no problems with President Obama, I think we all know that he is not an everyday American.