Presidency of Barack Obama

Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy were both candidates and presidents at incredibly pivotal time periods in history. As such they faced a wide range of rhetorical obstacles during their candidacy and time as presidents. A rhetorical obstacle is some outside force that can limit a rhetors’ main purpose or goal. A shared obstacle faced by both candidates was that of identity. Identity becomes an obstacle when a rhetors’ audience does not share “common goals/background, beliefs, values, etc.” (1)…

what ultimately matters. During the eight year tenure of President Barrack Obama, the main focus of his crime policy centralized around gun control and easing of drug sentencing requirements. Well the president did attempt to implement a crime control policy it has never been a major political platform during his administration. Introduction This paper is an analysis of crime policies implemented by President Barrack Obama during his two consecutive terms in office. Furthermore, a case…

thought which kept popping into my head was how I felt that Barack Obama was under more pressure and scrutinized than any other president in the recent past. I think that for him and for other African Americans, whether they agree with his views or not, Obama being elected president was an epic event. From a historical perspective it was a monumental day in United States history, an event that will written about for ages. Taking on the presidency is a great responsibility, but as the saying goes…

President Barack Obama’s eight and final State of the Union address. This State of the Union was very important for President Obama because it is a crucial year to set in stone his legacy. It is an election year, so how is President Obama going to end his second term as President of the United States? In his final State of the Union, President Obama emphasized many key topics from cancer research to the fight against ISIS. Even though it is his last year in office, President Barack Obama is…

Candidates often make unrealistic promises such as ending corruptions, reviving the economy, ending poverty, and bring justice into America. It certainly matters whoever wins the election as the outcome often result in whoever holds the seat to presidency. During Obama first two years in office, He and the Democratic party had control of the white house. The Democratic allies in Congress had a decent amount of policy accomplishment the economic stimulus, bringing the financial system back from…

Exploratory Essay 2: Situating This exploratory essay will analyze Barack Obama's 2008 poster hope, as it speaks to its significance as a cultural text. The poster is highlighting Obama in a seventy-five percent profile, centering strongly into the separation, while wearing a suit. The cultural text is delineated in an extremely basic shading plan, the overwhelming colors are red, white, and blue the shades of the American flag. Therefore, this essay will focus on the image utilizing semiotic…

highest office in our land? The prestige, the honor, and the respect that comes with the job is what 43 men have had the chance to experience. And, this year, it was explicit that our nation would have the first women president to take the oath of the presidency. But, there is one orange, beautifully haired man, who refuses to let this transpire and is leading the charge to the democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton. And that man is no other than Donald Trump. There have been three key planks…

need not keep yours to them.” An example directly from Obama’s presidency would be Obama’s publically made announcement to close Guantanamo Bay, while still allowing the work of many “secret prisons”. (Politics Blog 2012) Another issue of Obama’s not keeping and going against his own word would be the example of how he views interrogation. Obama has criticized Bush’s administration for the use of inhumane torture, even though he has searched for newer and more “enhanced interrogation methods.”…

have Russia stand up to Iran was a horrible failure that turned America into a laughingstock. (MotherJones, October 5, 2016). President Trump continued to censure former President Obama by discussing how President Putin views President Obama via comments such as President Putin not having any respect for President Obama. It is not criminal in that President Trump has the freedoms of free speech and of expression to express his opinions, and the United States Constitutions guarantee these…

Republicans. This is why they call him the Boogeyman. Being an adversary the Republicans, he continuously funds their political rivals and enemies. During the election of 2004, George Soros longed to dethrone a weak George W. Bush and topple his presidency. Soros funded Bush’s political contender that year, John Kerry. Up until that time, it was normal for high dollar donors to give a few million in political donations. Soros broke the accepted norm by giving John Kerry $27 million. Soros…