Yesterday, January 20th, 2009 history was made. Barack Obama the first ever African American president was inaugurated in Washington D.C., the Capitol. This post will compare two articles of different sources that have been written and published about the inauguration of Barack Obama, the now-president who has made a remarkable change to history. These articles have been taken from both the Yahoo! News and CNN websites.
The first article of Yahoo! News is entitled "
Obama inauguration: Hits and Misses." From the title of the article one can tell that it was written to discuss the successful and weaker points of President Obama's inauguration. This article says that President Obama's speech was a "hit" or a stronger point of the whole inauguration. The article states,
"Obama's speech was both pragmatic and hopeful. He acknowledged the nation's grim economic problems, but assured the crowd he would quickly get to work" This basically means that President Obama's speech showed that he is well aware of the nation's problems and that he would begin his work as soon as he could start.
However, the article also states that one of his misses was called "first timers." What they mean by this is that he showed a little bit of nervousness when it came to swearing in, as many witnessed in Washington D.C. or watching at home on the television. President Barack Obama had another hit with the huge crowds that attended this historic inauguration. Generally, this article is honest and to the point. The main gist is that though there may have been a few mistakes President Obama had a successful and great inauguration.
The second article taken from CNN.com is titled "
CNN's political team analyzes Obama's inaugural address" Of course with this title being extremely straightforward it can be understood that the political analysts from CNN analyze President Barack Obama's inaugural speech. This article focuses mainly on the speech rather than the other parts of the inauguration of the forty-fourth president of the United States of America.
Gloria Borger says that "
The problems that were here yesterday and today are still going to be here tomorrow." Later in her quote she says that the Obama administration says that they are going to take all the problems at once because "
they understand this is their moment." John King says that if you read it you will find that it is
"a pretty bold agena, an ambitious agenda." He askes the question at the end of his quote, "
Can Barack Obama get Washington to do more than one thing at once?" Jeffery Toobin quotes:
"I thought this was an extraordinary event; I didn't think this was an extraordinary speech."As all the other CNN analysts prior to Toobin in this article, he says that there were a lot of topics presented. He found no theme in Obama's speech. A word that has been prevalent in this article so far is "rhetoric". Toobin says that there was "
no rhetoric, no phrase that stuck in my mind." Roland Martin, however believes that President Obama's speech does not matter as far as he is concerned. He says that he is the first African American president ever, who has attracted a mass of supporters at the National Mall. It is for this reason that Martin believes that nothing can take away from this day; that the speech is "irrelevant." Hilary Rosen believes that President Obama has come across so strongly especially when he says that he will not change this country; that we will, and he will be our leader.
Generally, with a few exceptions CNN's political team has geared toward the more negative side in their reviews of President Barack Obama's inaugural speech. One mutual point that several of CNN's political analysts agree on is that there was no "lofty rhetoric." As I mentioned previously Toobin said that there was no phrase that stuck in his mind. Yahoo! News's article believed the inaugural speech to be a hit and that he assured Americans that he would begin his work quickly and efficiently.
The sources for this blog post are as follows
Yahoo! News:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090120/pl_ynews/ynews_pl220_5CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/analysts.reaction/
Monday, January 26 will bring about an interesting, and sight to people in the Indian Ocean. There will be an annular solar eclipse. An annular solar eclipse is when the moon is positioned between the sun and the earth. However, in an annular solar eclipse the moon does not completely cover the sun, as it does in a total solar eclipse. Rather, you will see a "ring of fire" around the moon. The is depicted in the image to the left.
