Obama's Speech Edits

Edits are no doubt an important part of writing any paper. When you have a whole nation listening to your speech and critizing it, edits will probably the most crucial part in writing that speech. Obama gave his speech on the reform of health care in the US with the utmost confidence and knew that the edits he made were for the better. When reading the excerpt from his speech and then looking at the edits he made, it seems he made those revisions so that he could connect with the American people. One example that promotes this idea quite well is when hes talking about Ted Kennedy's children being ill. He changes the line from "or his ability to imagine what it must be like for those without insurance" to "and he was able to imagine what it must be like for those without insurance". The first of those sounds more rough and makes it seem as if since he's higher up on the political chain that he can see what it's like for us down here in regular life. But when he says he was able to imagine, that sounds like he is one of us in regular life. Obama does this a couple times throughout his speech and I think there is nothing wrong with making a few edits to an important document, just as the writers of the Declaration of Independence did.