Barak Obama's Acceptance Speech

Senator Obama's speech at the DNC Thursday night seemed to be a major success. As he talked, there were multiple times the crowd could not keep quiet and he had to calm them down. The point of his speech seemed to be to get people to understand that he too is a person, yet a person who has the ability to run our country. He addressed all of the hits he took from Senator McCain, and backed himself up with who he really is; not just a celebrity, but a human being who also went through struggles and continues to struggle. He obviously had the attention of the crowd at Invesco Field, and it was easy to hear that the majority, if not all, agreed with him by the way they screamed after he spoke. He was able to keep everyone interested and interested in his speech by tying his own family into it and saying he wants his own daughters to be equal with everyone else, as well as mentioning his mother and the struggles she faced with health insurance, bills, and just raising him.
Obama wasn't just speaking to all of America through his speech, but mostly the middle and lower class citizens who are currently struggling to pay their bills, get health insurance, or even save money to send their children to school. By the way he brought his mother into the speech, like I mentioned before, it humanized him and made these citizens able to equalize themselves with him. Obama was also talking to people who are looking toward the future. The people who are looking at what types of fuels we can use and how we can make gas prices go down. The people who are tired of war and are looking to set a plan to get our troops out of Iraq. The people who want a change in the government and our country to prosper. He spoke to all these people, and successfully I might add. He did a great job at mentioning all the problems our country is looking at right now, and saying how he would like to change them, capturing the audiences attention and making them feel as if he was just talking to them. Overall I'd say his speech was very successful.