At the end of his speech in the film, the South Carolina senator admits that perhaps the secretary of state nominee is "the new voice of my country." Perhaps President Obama's sounds like a "new voice" of the United States. True, it is not a voice of self-centeredness, prejudice or greed that many politicians have used in the past to appeal to the worst in us. Rather, he describes a better tomorrow and urges us to join him in creating it when he says "well into our third century as a nation, it remains the task of us all, as citizens of these United States, to be the authors of the next great chapter in our American story."
Richard Davis is a professor of political science at Brigham Young University. His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of BYU. Email: Richard_Davis@byu.edu.
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Mr. Davis, I expect that you are going to get a lot of vehement disagreement on this piece. It is a well reasoned piece, which seems to aggravate some people. I'm constantly amazed at people who say that the president is the most radical figure More..
One of the greatest things about America is each individual has their own voice and can speak for themselves. No American President is my voice. Glenn Beck is not my voice. Chris Matthews is not my voice. I have my own voice and I will speak up More..
Once you've decided someone is your enemy, and that you are going to despise them, what they say afterward hardly matters. Everything from that point on will be systematically ignored, modified, or amplified to fit your opinion of that person.