Obama’s Inauguration Assignment

First off, let me start by saying, that speech is A LOT longer in words than it was on the tele.
Second, I want to point out something that some others may not have noticed but I thought was interesting. Since Bush’s term ended, Biden was sworn into the white house BEFORE Obama was. Doesn’t that mean that Biden was president for about 10 minutes while the orchestra was playing?

Now about the inauguration of Barrack Obama, I thought it was generally a nice ceremony. When I was watching it, I wasn’t too sure about what to expect because I’m sure that there are many attacks planned against Obama because it’s such a big change. I also thought that there was way too much money spent to inaugurate the president of the United States of America considering the horrible economy that we have right now. All the money spent on the ceremony could have been used for much more useful things such as feeding the starving in third world countries or helping the poor in the USA.

“We will not apologize for our way of life.” – B. H. Obama
“The American way of life is non-negotiable.” – G.W. Bush

Just this second, I searched up Bush’s inaugural address to compare it to Obama’s and when I clicked on the first link on google, I found it funny that it said “The page you requested wasn't found at this location. The Obama Administration has created a brand new White House website, and it's possible that the page you were looking for has been moved.” I found this funny because Obama’s administration immediately changed the website and moved Bush’s speech somewhere else. The first thought I had was, “wow it seems as though Obama’s erasing what Bush did during his terms as president.”

Well I continued searching and realized that Bush had two inaugural addresses and I didn’t want to read both of them so I will just compare the two quotes.

Both Bush and Obama mentioned something about the AWOL. They both seem to say that the AWOL is a set thing. We cannot change it. Bush said it is “non-negotiable” which means that the AWOL is the way it is; we cannot change what has been set. As for Obama, he said that we would not apologize for our life which suggests that we cannot apologize for what we have done in the past. We will not apologize for the way we live because it is the way we live. It is our way of life, we cannot change it. In a way Bush and Obama have the same views. Many people see Obama as “better” because he is different, he is of mixed race. Many people do not like Bush because he has led us through many troubles such as war in Iraq and this horrible economy that we seem to be stuck in. But the thing is, how do we know that Obama will not lead us into the same turmoil? How do we know how different he is? I guess that is what we can expect every time we elect a new president. Expect them to be great leaders and to lead us into greatness and prosperity.

I’m not too into politics; they do not interest me much. I’m more of a human rights person, meaning that I see everyone the same and that discrimination is wrong and equal rights and all that. I personally think it has a lot to do with common sense. Why do people have to be racist? What makes me, an Asian, so much different from a Caucasian person? I kind of want to know what goes on in a racist’s head. What do they think about? What makes them hate another race? Why do they have such discrimination against another HUMAN BEING? Through any kinds of discrimination, in the end everyone is a human being.

I honesty don’t have much to say about Obama’s inauguration itself. I’m not too excited that we have a black president now because I don’t see it as much different. I see Obama as another human being and just the same as any other candidate but I know for a fact that African Americans will look at white supremacists different and vice versa. The minority will have higher hopes of achieving the same dream as Obama did and blah blah blah blah. Of course we all know these facts already and I am just stating the obvious.