Obama, Obama

No matter what political view we have whether it be republican, democratic, or something inbetween we should be lucky that our school got to host a speech made by the President of the United States. I was not in attendance at his speech, so i chose to analyze the newspaper article written by MinnPost.com which their tagline reads "A thoughtful approach to news." And after reading the article, their tagline was just that, thoughtful. The article started out by showing a picture of four elderly black women holding up Obama posters and wearing huge grins across their face, clearly showing how amazing they thought the President's appearance was. But then it simply just stated the facts about how the day unfolded and what the atmosphere and area looked like during the course of the day. But the part that I noted was mid-article he made a comment about how Mark Dayton introduced the President and how he was actually composed even though he is noted for being a bad orator. This caught my eye because the title of the article was "Obama Promotes Dayton with Gusto!" So with a very positively written title that gives off the impression of pro-dayton, it was peculiar that hidden within the article was a sly remark and bash on Dayton for being a bad speaker. So even within an article that is trying to be "thoughtful" and unbiased, the author still managed to slide in a quick and sneaky opinion about his politics.

But for the most part, i found the article to be quite positive, and just amped the fact that many people were excited to have the President here. As was basically the atmosphere of our campus and school in general. I was fortunate to be able to see Obama speak in may 2009 when he spoke at the commencement ceremony for my brother's graduation at the University of Notre Dame. And let me tell you, the atmosphere for the president's arrival was a little more tense around that campus. There was a huge dibacle about him speaking, because Notre Dame is a private and catholic school, and for a pro-choice president to be speaking, not many were too happy about it. I highly remember walking past hundreds of protesters holding up posters with pictures of dead aborted babies on them. And during his speech itself, 5 people at different times were arrested and escorted out of the building for yelling "Murderer!" So if you compare that to the experiences of Obama coming to our school, one that is public and highly more diverse, the poetics and representation of the event is somewhat different. It just takes a different scene, or different environment for a specific event to be represented in a different way. Because Obama speaking, is simply Obama speaking, his politics are the same, but take-out a catholic atmosphere and insert a willing and open campus like Minnesota, and the poetics become totally different.