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OBAMA’S STUDENT ADDRESS

By: Audreyanna Garrett

With the great amount of evolution that has taken place in United States to date, we could never get away from the fact that we are still a mass of individuals.  Individuals that possess and express individual views and opposition. 

At no one point in time will every American agree with the President.  There maybe some issues in reform that I may disagree with but neither of us, outside of the Presidential Cabinet, possess the knowledge needed to execute such an immense position.  The job description and characteristics necessary to make up that of the President of the United States of America are so unique that only a select few possess them, which gives the explanation as to why there is only one every four to eight years.

Do I think that President Obama’s decision to address the student body was a bad idea?  No I do not, but what I will say is this; it is always nice to have positive reinforcement of the importance of education.  There are so many aspects of society that are deterring our own from furthering their education, that if we, we being “WE the people of the United States,” do not encourage our own, who will?

There were alot of assumptions that President Obama wanted to address the student body with hopes of influencing political views and positions.  This is ridiculous.  I am not one for assumptions; you can not form a sound opinion on that.  I know that when I was in school, if the President decided to address the body, we researched the topics, viewed when televised, and summarized the experience, at its conclusion, as a whole.  There was no OPTION. 

The President’s decision was indeed respected, although it may have been ridiculed on a lower level, it was always respected.  I would hope that as Americans we stand behind our President.  Because regardless, no one party, no one race nor one gender of persons got President Barack Obama elected alone; we all did.

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