Above is a link to a Youtube video, displaying Barack Obama
making a speech at the campaign fundraiser in Chicago on the 12 of August 2012.
Obama’s slogan, ‘Forward’ for the 2012 campaign as oppose to his ‘change’ campaign
back in 2008, highlights that there is still much to be done to change America
in order to push its values and ideals forward, towards ‘a new vision of America ’. Obama asks the crowd, ‘do we go forward in which
prosperity is shared?’, ‘or do we go backward to the same policies that got us
into this mess in the first place?’ Those policies that perhaps De Crevecoeur’s
would label European values, where man is met with ‘nothing but the frowns of
the rich; the severity of the laws, with jails and punishments; who owned not a
single foot of the extensive surface of this planet.’
Obama states that America should go forward, in working to ‘create an America where no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, no matter what your last name is, no matter who you love, you can make it here if you try.’ This Largely coincides with De Crevecoeur’s expression of the ‘new’ and the ‘exceptional’ America, in which he describes individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, who’s labourers and prosperity will one day cause great changes in the World’. This further echo’s the idea that America is a ‘Land Of Opportunity’, and that all men are equal, Obama becoming the first Black American President, shows that this change in America is forthcoming, and that steps towards a ‘new’ and ‘exceptional’ America is within the near future. Therefore the video above is a contemporary example of how this vision of a ‘new’ America is still evident and forever evolving in today’s world.
Obama states that America should go forward, in working to ‘create an America where no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, no matter what your last name is, no matter who you love, you can make it here if you try.’ This Largely coincides with De Crevecoeur’s expression of the ‘new’ and the ‘exceptional’ America, in which he describes individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, who’s labourers and prosperity will one day cause great changes in the World’. This further echo’s the idea that America is a ‘Land Of Opportunity’, and that all men are equal, Obama becoming the first Black American President, shows that this change in America is forthcoming, and that steps towards a ‘new’ and ‘exceptional’ America is within the near future. Therefore the video above is a contemporary example of how this vision of a ‘new’ America is still evident and forever evolving in today’s world.
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