OBAMA'S SPEECH!

I think that Obama's speech was a success because he mentioned very important American values such as equality of opportunities and hard work. At the beginning he told the story of his family and how his grandfather had dreams for his father and send him to the United States to be successful. For me Obama embodies the American Dream, his father is an immigrant, his mother is from Kansas, he has an African name and the became the President of the United States, he is an example for the people, he is a city on a hill, and he is the President of the most important country of the world.

In his speech he mention the American Dream, the idea of America being a City on a Hill, hard work, equality of opportunities, community, how to succeed working as a unity, freedom of speech, helping each other, etc... so, he mixed important American values with values from John Winthrop's speech "A Model of Christian Charity" and I think that was exactly what Americans were waiting for at that moment, a person who embodied new ideas with old ones.