Obama Speech (Kevin)

Obama's speech has many markups and there may be may reasons behind them but I am going to tell you why I think he made the changes. The first sentence goes from, "but those who knew him and worked with him here" to, "but those of us who knew Teddy and worked with him here." I think President Obama added the words "of us" so that instead of picking out a certain few people the word us makes it seem like he is talking to everyone. He also added changed the word him to Teddy so he didn't have the word "him" used too much in the sentence. The next change he mad was that he added the words, "He never forgot" to the beginning of a sentence. He did this to show that Ted Kennedy, instead of having sheer terror and helplessness, still knows what the feeling was like for the people that may be going through the same thing. He also changed "and his ability" to "and he was able." He might have done this for two reason, one being he over use of the word him that i talked about with my first example or he changed it to make it seem less like an ability, something he can do, to something that he had push through and work through. Whatever Obama's reasoning is behind all of his corrections this is what I thought of the first few.