President Barack Obama’s Inauguration Address 2013 Critique

President Barack Obama’s Inauguration address 2013 Critique

After watching the President Barack Obama’s inauguration speech, I feel like it was an inspiring and moving speech, he laid out the changes he wants to make as a president. When he was giving the speech, he looked like he knew what he was doing and showed the audience he had done this kind of speech before. I think he was really confident about his speech. Although the speech was good at many ways, there is something he always can do better. First, President Obama looked really serious when he was giving the speech. He used his solemnness to show the American citizens he cares about this country and also set the tone of the speech. Second, president Obama seemed he was really focused on the speech. I don’t know weather he had a teleprompter or not when he was giving the speech, but he looked like he knows the material pretty well, because it seemed like he memorized the speech. Third, because he knew the material so well, so he could be able to made lots of eye contacts with the audience. Communicating with the audience is really important for an orator; I think president Obama handled that really well by using eye contacts and hand motions through out his entire speech. Finally, people do pay attention about the outfits of the orator when he/she is giving the speech. President Obama’s outfit was proper and he looked like a president on stage. As I mentioned earlier, he can also make this speech perfect by avoiding some little issues. First, there were so many pauses when he was presenting, and some of the pauses were little bit long. In my own opinion, the pauses can cause the audience to loose their interests about the speech; it can make the audience think about other things during the pauses, so it will break the continuity of the speech. Second, there was so much information to retain and remember. Although the speech was well organized, too much information can also cause people forget some of the information he mentioned in the speech. Third, president Obama ended the speech to quick towards the end of the speech. I felt like he was still talking something important, and suddenly he ended the speech. Therefore, in my own opinion he can put a small transition or at the end of his speech in order to let the audience know that he was going to end the speech. I think he can also gives a conclusion which can generalize the information he mentioned earlier in the speech, so that the audience can memory the speech more and understand the speech better. All in all, president Obama did a fantastic job. It was definitely an inspiring and moving speech which can really make the audience think about lots of things after the speech and it also shows that he has the hope for America and it also indicated that president Obama is a great president.