Yesterday, Bill Clinton made a five-town tour of West Virginia with the goal being to sway our vote in the primary next week. When Kennedy ran, he spoke in West virginia right before the primary, and managed to get our vote, which turns out made him the democratic candidate. For whatever reason, Bill Clinton decided that my school was an important step in this. Perhaps it was the name, Athens. Perhaps he didn't see what the population was. Anyways, even though I am a registered Independant, I decided to go and listen to him, as I have wanted to meet an ex-president for a long time. And I decided to blog on my thoughts about the speech.
Bill was an hour late, which didn't get him off on a good foot. When he walked in with his secret service, he waved several times to the audience. At the podium, he started with some general statements about what ideals the United States was built on and how we need to come together to make a difference. He also won points by showing that he had researched our school by talking about how it was formed by veterans of the Civil War from both sides. Of course, he was probably also admitting he had never heard of the school until ha planned this campaign tour, but I can't really blame him for that since I had never heard of it before I started researching schools.
From my semester taking a speech class, I could tell that, mechanically, Bill was a good speaker. He addressed the need, proposed a solution, and urged us to take a specific action. Also, he should how the audience, mostly college students or people from rural areas, were affected by the major issues, of which he included the economy, gas prices, the Iraqi War, the enviroment, and trade. He also touched on how these topics were interrelated.
In another post, I will go into more details about what he said and what happened. More to come...
I would expect Bill Clinton to rattle on about those kinds of topics. The fact that he discussed how everyone is affected by gas prices and the war seems odd though. Its perfectly clear how gas prices are affecting everyone- there are tears cried at gas pumps everywhere. Why don't politicians speak about something their audience doesn't already know?
Because those are the topics voters will consider when voting. I guess I phrased that a little vaguely. He spoke about solutions to problems that affect those of us in the audience as well as just the what the problems are.
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The thing is, discussing that the topics affect us isn't what should be done. Solutions should be offered, reports on their efforts made, etc. Of course those are important issues and yes we care about them. But I personally wouldn't want to just listen to someone tell me what the issues are.
That's what fI said happened when I corrected myself. In discussing those issues, he told us the solutions Hillary was proposing. I was planning on stating those in the next blog.
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Oh- I'm sorry then. It just seemed like it left off at an awkward place.
Yeah, it did. I'll make my points clearer in the next blog.
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