Voting seems to be boring for United States citizens, especially young people. If we add all the voting together, we may vote as much as other countries. This does not sound interested at all, and voting is like second job.
There are many reasons that make voters not keen on voting. They are disconnected or uninformed about the campaign or presidential candidates; They do not have sense of efficacy; Or voting method does not change. On the contrary, they can spend hours on shopping. You can see that they lines up waiting to buy iPhone or Starbuck coffee; Or they can wait for celebrities for hours to getting their signatures or taking pictures with them even though it’s is sunny or rainy; but we are sure that lining up voting is not the fun activity for them. Do you think our government should change voting to attract voters?
We can make voting exciting to attract voters. For example, we can make Obama’s slogan “Tell your mama. Vote for Obama!” cellphone’s ringtone; Or we can make voting cool like American Idol show. So we can vote online or text for our favorite one. They can raised money by selling their CD about successful speeches like “Speech On Race” of Obama. At that time, I think voting is not only the political issue, but also economic issue and I think voters can line up hours waiting for voting.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Obama's Speech on Race- a wonderful speech but not in the right time
http://accgovernment.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-speech-on-race.html
I agree with you, Katie. Barrack Obama has very an excellent performance on his speech day. He impresses everybody by his literal words and the way he expresses his feeling. He makes old topic new. He attracts everyone because he speaks things many Americans want to talk and many Americans want to hear. When they listen to him, they seem to hear what they want to talk or hear. Only a person who is a victim of racism understands and sympathizes with them. And that is Barrack Obama. “He is explaining how he has been through the worst and the best of things.” And “when he talked about his family and their of races, it really allowed him to speak comfortably about white and black people.” I will also agree with you that “today is history and tomorrow will be too,” and “history repeats itself over and over.” And racism is a proof of history.
There is no doubt that he delivers a successful speech. But I do not think he gives speech at a right time. Racism is an issue that always exists in different ways. Not until Martin L. King or Obama’s speech we know about racism, we know it when there are white and colored people living in the same country. What do Americans care about now? I think Americans care more about their lives than anything else because they never know whether they will be laid off tomorrow. Once they lost their job, racism is nothing to them. Will Americans care about that if tomorrow they wake up and hear that gas price goes up to 6 dollars per gallon and food price double? I do not think so.
I agree with you, Katie. Barrack Obama has very an excellent performance on his speech day. He impresses everybody by his literal words and the way he expresses his feeling. He makes old topic new. He attracts everyone because he speaks things many Americans want to talk and many Americans want to hear. When they listen to him, they seem to hear what they want to talk or hear. Only a person who is a victim of racism understands and sympathizes with them. And that is Barrack Obama. “He is explaining how he has been through the worst and the best of things.” And “when he talked about his family and their of races, it really allowed him to speak comfortably about white and black people.” I will also agree with you that “today is history and tomorrow will be too,” and “history repeats itself over and over.” And racism is a proof of history.
There is no doubt that he delivers a successful speech. But I do not think he gives speech at a right time. Racism is an issue that always exists in different ways. Not until Martin L. King or Obama’s speech we know about racism, we know it when there are white and colored people living in the same country. What do Americans care about now? I think Americans care more about their lives than anything else because they never know whether they will be laid off tomorrow. Once they lost their job, racism is nothing to them. Will Americans care about that if tomorrow they wake up and hear that gas price goes up to 6 dollars per gallon and food price double? I do not think so.
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