Historic Adresses

The relevance between John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address' and modern day all includes change. While reading through his speech i found a of of similarities to what Our new President Barack Obama had said or wanted. "Change" being Obama's headline, really relates to John's speech. John had talked about "passing the torch". In my opinion i feel he shared that as if he was giving America a new world and how it shall be a different time, and a different America in a better way. Something that i caught while listening to John's Inaugural was when he said, "All this (referring to peace) will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days; nor in the life of this Administration; nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin".

Something that also i feel relates to Barack's Inaugural is how they both mention that issues will not be fixed within a certain amount of time, but they will be fixed because it's a "different time" and time to make dramatic changes. An example of the similarities would be from Obama's speech, "Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. "They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America - they will be met. On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord". It seems as though John and Barack both give off the impression that they give America the opportunity to make these changes, and that there's more to America than just leaving everything up to the Government.

Another strong relationship between John and Obama is their opinions towards war. According to BBC News Obama is planning on bringing home our troops little by little every month. This plan of Obama's plans on being complete by 2010. Military officials say they can send out more troops by the summer of 2009 which would double the amount of troops there. However, Obama does not intend on sending anymore out and want to stick with his plan to withdraw troops month by month.