Away From Politics

I cannot stop listening to US new president Barak H Obama's speech over and over again while I am on my PC, on my mobile before going to bed or anywhere when it happens that I have some free time. The man's words were really inspiring.


The man's powerful rhetoric is as clear as day. His organized thought is evident to everyone. In simple, clear and direct language, I must say that I admire the man.


Many people around the globe like the new president, not least because of his ethnic background. Barak Hussein Obama enters history as the first Afro-American US president. His Islamic affiliation through his father, though bluntly denied, made a lot of Muslims around the world wish he wins the presidency. The topical issues of freedom, democracy, equality, human rights, environment protection and other widely accepted aspirations reverberating through his many speeches could but unite the Americans and pro-Americans into one supportive team.


All this is heart talk. In politics, however, what counts is not rhetoric. Political players know well that words will not ever settle a dispute or win a battle. What some politics gurus advocate is a world built on the principle of balanced power. Most of what the world suffers now is sometimes referred to as the immediate outcome of the existence of only one major super world power now known as the USA.


If it is politics, I must withdraw. My knowledge of politics is simply not as good as my knowledge of language. For this reason, I opt for tackling the linguistic element of the speech of the new Chief Executive. I admire the man for his language use. Let us not deny that we were taken by his words. Everything he said was just an expression of what each and every one of us is thinking of and hoping for.


What I am trying to get at is that we need to think of the new president in terms of two separate things: his linguistic skill and his political creed. Personally, I will not and do not want to go into politics. What I need my audience to recognize is that I am concerned with the man's language regardless of his political acts.


Thanks for listening.


AYR

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