Barack Obama is one of the most inspirational public speakers I have ever seen. In my opinion, he is leagues better than Mitt Romney. When he speaks, even if he’s spewing out empty rhetoric about sparkling spring days and the shadows over a shuddered steel mill, or if you don’t agree with what he’s saying, you can’t help but listen and get engrossed in it. At one point in his speech in the Democratic National Convention, he quotes President Lincoln, and the crowd screams, the camera cuts to people crying, and you feel a rush of patriotism in your heart, and you forget that he isn’t actually saying something about what he’ll do for his country. At another point in his speech, he appeals to the hope of the people, saying it was us who changed the country, us who helped make education more affordable, made more jobs for the people, and who made the truth something accessible for the United States. Whoever his speech writers are, they do a good job, and his delivery is always something to be remembered.
Although I was thoroughly impressed by his speech, he didn’t even mention one of my main issues about this election, women's health. On his website, he has a long list of facts about money and insurance and saving money, written for people to understand, and I was hoping that in his speech he would touch on the facts and his actual plan to help women with their rights, and I was disappointed when he didn’t. On his website, I learned that 98% of Catholic women have used birth control. I know I’m no math wiz, but 98% is a lot of people. So my question is, how can we be arguing this issue at all when women make up 51% of our country?
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