Blog 1

Both Obama’s and FDR’s speeches had many similarities. Obama’s inauguration speech touched upon all four freedoms that were in FDR’s speech. Both of these speeches had an underlining understanding of how important freedom is to the everyday man or women. These freedoms are an important staple in our lives and Obama addresses and bring up these freedoms through out his speech. We as a country are lucky to have these freedoms and both F.D. Roosevelt and Obama state that they are willing to help other countries gain these rights. In the beginning of Obama’s speech he says “on this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear”. This was a statement that stood out to me after reading FDR’s speech. The freedom of fear from FDR’s speech states that we as a nation do not have anything to fear, and Obama’s sentence stated before said that we chose hope over that fear. We are lucky to have the ability to have freedom, many other nations and countries do not have the opportunities and chances that we do. American stands for the land of the free, people from all over the world would love to have the opportunity to live in this nation. We are a county that many other counties look to for answers. Both of these men’s speeches help us relies what we have and why it is something that we should not take for granted.