“I’m here to tell you,” Senator Barack Obama said on Wednesday, “that better days are ahead.” He spoke in front of a huge crowd in Indiana, and delivered yet again a speech that inspires to many.

“Here in America our destiny is not written for us,” Obama said to a cheering crowd, “it is written by us. We make the decision about how we are going to move forward.” 

“Indiana, that is who we are, and that is the country we need to be right now, and that’s why I’m running for president of the United States of America,” the Democratic nominee for president and junior senator for Illinois went on to say.

The crowd reacted passionately, chanting “Obama, Obama, Obama.” Obama had to tell them to stop cheering for a moment, because he had more to say.

He then started praising America, and told his audience that although “it won’t be easy, it won’t happen overnight, but there’s no reason that we can’t steer out of this crisis and make this century another American century. I know we can,” he went on to say, “but I need your help.”

The crowd responded by changing “yes we can, yes we can, yes we can.”

Obama then said that creating a new American century, however, will take a new leadership. He used this point to criticize his opponent John McCain, both directly and indirectly.

“In last night’s debate John McCain and I each had the opportunity to make the case for change… All that we heard from Senator McCain, however, was more of the same Bush economics that led us into this mess in the first place,” Obama said.

“Take health care, we were both asked whether we believe that health care should finally be the right of every American.”

“I believe it should.

“But Senator McCain didn’t say that. And when you look at his radical health care plan you can see why,” Obama added.

“He talks about giving every family a $5000 credit to buy health care. But he did not mention last night that he will also tax your benefits for the first time in history.

“It’s an old Washington game,” Obama said, “it’s called the bait-and-switch.”

“Senator McCain didn’t tell us,” Obama went on to say, “that his plan would cause 20 million Americans to lose their health insurance from their employer. Or how the U.S. chamber of commerce, which is generally not a big supporter of Democratic candidates, said it would be a disaster for businesses. He didn’t mention how it would deregulate the insurance industry so they don’t have to cover things like mammograms or vacinations or maternity care. He thinks we wouldn’t notice these things.

“Well, I’ve got news for John McCain: we notice. We know better.”

The speech was indicative of Barack Obama’s tremendous speaking skills, and his way of mixing negative emotions, even downright fear, with positive ones. It is a complex message when you try to analyze it. On the one hand there is hope, on the other there is incredible negativity about where the United States is now, where it was in the past, and even downright fear of where it will go if Obama loses this election.

Although complex, the mix of hope and fear does succeed in inspiring many and getting them up to their feet. It gives the audience the impression to be part of a major, life even destiny changing movement, speerheaded by Barack Obama.

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