John F. Kennedy vs. Obama

I choose John F. Kennedy's and Barack Obama's inauguration speech and articles to compare. The importance of J.F.K's speech is the issue of foreign policy, Obama talks about this in many of his speeches as well.

As Obama has recently become President of the United States he has many large roles to take on. One of the things he has proposed to do is slowly take troops out of Iraq and move them somewhere else or come back home, on the Obama presidential website it says, "iimmediately upon taking office, Obama will give his Secretary of Defense and military commanders a new mission in Iraq: successfully ending the war. The removal of our troops will be responsible and phased." The goal I think Obama has to end the war peacefully and successfully. Kennedy wanted the same, in his inaugural speech he states "let the oppressed go free." They each share similarities on the ways they go out to be president.

I think that Kennedy had the potential of being one of the best presidents because of the goals he had set out to accomplish, but unfortunately enough he was not able to pursue his goals. The new president Obama now I think has the potential to change the world for the better and has already made history of being the first African American President of all time.

In Kennedy's speech he states "let the oppressed go free". They each have there own similarities.






John F. Kennedy speech

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkinaugural.htm

video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmiOEk59n8

article(s)
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/jfkennedy.html

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/dreyfuss

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1695803,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics

http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/iraq/