Obama- Greg Knapp

When reading the passage on Obama's edits, I found a couple of things that caught my attention. In two phrases he changed, he was trying to win over the people of America and the members of Congress. The first phrase, “over half of our seniors could not support themselves and millions had seen their savings wiped away”, Obama was trying to gain the support of the United States people. He didn’t have anything like this before he edited and I think that he knew he needed something to grasp the attention of the population and gain their support. The other phrase he used was: “members of Congress Democrats and Republicans […] They joined together so that all of us could enter our golden years with some basic peace of mind.” With this phrase he set out to win the votes of congress on both sides to try and get this bill to pass. He used history to show that at one time both the democrats and republicans joined together for the better of the country. He was doing everything he could to get this bill to pass.