Obama pointed out, for example, that he won primaries in former Confederate states and that he had built a “powerful coalition of African Americans and white Americans.&# His speech was powerful and widely praised. First, / whisper it, / breathing / at all the breath marks. power of dissent! How does he do it?

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes, we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights: Yes, we can. That’s the power of repetition. Throughout the Speech. The theme was “Back to the Future”. 

At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. 3-part list. Weater imagery to depict trouble ahead.