Thursday, October 27, 2011

Mr. Obama college issues

Mr. Obama is following some of his old tactics that he used for his last term, as he focuses his attention on the younger generation, mostly college students. Last term he won Denver over with the young generations votes and it seems as if he might have hope to win Denver again on this term. He uses himself as an example for students who are in debt for their college tuition. Stating that he and his wife, Michelle Obama had to deal with a big debt together equaling about $120,000 from law school. Targeting this type of group will promote and help him pass his new rules on and a quick and easy way to pay of your tuition debt. He does this with his slogan “we cant wait”, refusing to the republicans refusing to his legislative agenda.
He makes his case very appealing as he sympathizes with them and urges them to stand up to congress, express your feelings and financial crisis. His idea is to gain support for his $47 billion dollar job proposal, which will make tax cuts and spending, to be passed. Obama has been going through California, Nevada, Colorado and other states near them. These are usually Democrat safe states but Colorado and Denver are battleground states for Obama so his tactic is to focus on the Hispanic electorate and the young college population.
This tactic seems to be working, Obama appears to be very popular among the young college generation because he speaks for them. There is no other candidate who seems to give them attention and hope that Obama does. In my opinion these are just broken promises, Obama made promises to the young generation before about tuition. That of which he didn’t keep and made no effort to move in on, so why would it be any different this time around. But in my opinion he gets the attention because he’s the only hope and the only one who seems willing to try.
4500 tickets were sold to see Obama in a university that was going through a snow storm and hours of waiting in line and going through security to hear Obama speak. Obama slightly goes against congress for the issues that haven’t been resolved., the jobs that haven’t been created, and the struggle that people go though.
He points out key points in financial statues and updates within the nation. A college education is very important in life but college has also never been so expensive and for the first time college debt has become higher then credit card debt. To finish up his point the relates to the audience by informing them that he graduated college with a huge debt between him and his wife and like most of the country he did not come from a wealthy family. So he knows their struggle, their feelings and their pain. And if they want change it is there effort and part just as much as it is his. So get out there and make a difference.

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