Obama's Speech

I like his speech, and for one main reason. We missed 15 minutes of class, more or less. Why did I not care for the speech itself? Simply put, it was boring. He spent those 15 minutes talking in the same tone of voice, and the same pitch. If you took a sound level meter, it would be the exact same level of loudness the whole time. As Greg said, he was no Mr. Pope (who is the god of speaking...even if he tried, he could not be boring). As I'm rewatching the video, I also notice that his face doesn't really change either. It looked like this the whole time: -_- His mouth, eyes, and eyebrows are lines.

In spite of all of that, however, I also realize that it was a heartfelt speech. He obviously cares about this, and he didn't mention anything about being a Democrat (which many Republicans were afraid of). He also was occasionally funny, or at least, I thought some things were funny. He did connect to students sometimes as well, such as when he referenced Twitter and Facebook.

Overall, he did a decent job. I didn't really like it for some of its content, but it kept my attention. Even when many people were talking around me, I still watched it, so he did something right.

@Obama: It's Rowling, not Rowlings. >.<