Here we are again!
The new semester has just begun and so my blog is about to be updated weekly again!
The task for this first e-tivity is very interesting because it has given me the chance to look for more information about the US election campaings which actually I’ve been following day by day on the news. However, thanks to this e-tivity I’ve done something which probably I would have never done, that is to say, listening to a great number of speeches of the two democratic candidates, and, visit their own websites.
I’ve chosen to follow the democratic campaing because I’m getting more and more involved in this challenge between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, which actually is fascinating the entire world! I believe that such a challenge between candidates belonging to the same party is a great demonstration of democracy, which eventually is something unknown in a country like Italy, where we’re not allowed to choose pretty anything, neither the candidate we want to vote, or the President we would like to have. We’re living a political campaing in our country too, so that it is even more interesting to see how things are ruled abroad, in order to become aware of what’s wrong with our democratic system. Moreover, what is extremely interesting is the fact that this US campaing is having a worldwide resonance; all around the world people is interested in knowing who’s won in which state, eventually neither knowing where that state is. All around the world people say things like “If I were American, I would vote for Hillary or Obama” and these are just the primary elections. This fact means that the interest in who’s going to rule America for the next 4 or 8 years in relevant for the rest of the world; nowadays, in fact, being it right or not, where goes America, there follow the other countries.
As for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s speeches, I’ve compared what they’ve said on March, 4th, after the great day of the primary elections in a number of American states. As for Hillary’s speech, I’ve seen that she often uses very short and effective sentences, she’s able to focus the main point of what she’s saying very quickly, but, on the other hand, she’s often a very patriotic attitude, which she stresses maybe too much. Hillary likes to underline her being experienced in the whole White House matter, for instance when she says that: “When there's a crisis and that phone rings at 3 a.m. in the White House, there's no time for speeches or on-the-job training. You have to be ready to make a decision”. She is the one who knows how it works, she is the one who’s already been there, and this is one of the strong points of her campaign. Moreover, Hillary obviously stresses the role of women, and I particularly noticed the fact that when she thanks some Senator or Governor, she always thanks thier wives too: she’s been the wife of the US President, and she knows the role a wife has in the career of her husband.
If on the one hand Hillary’s speeches are effective and easy to follow, Barack Obama’s ones are maybe less formal. His sentences are much longer and complicated than Hillary’s ones, and he’s got a stronger accent, but his style is more attractive, more young-looking and his sentences seem to be more natural (as for example when, in the middle of his speech, he tells his slogna in spanish “Sì, se puede”). He doesn’t look like a traditional “politician”, even though his speeches are full of slogans such as “We believe” or “We can”. He likes to stress himself being the “new one”, being “the one who will bring change” in the system, as opposed to Hillary traditionalism and experience. He also stresses the importance of the family as a whole, as opposed to Hillary’s focus on women.
Anyway, the strong points of thier campaings are more or less the same: the need of ending the wars, the economic recession, health care and the problem of those who are homeless.
With reference to thier websites, I must say that I really like Barack Obama’s one, which I found effective in the general outlook, in style and in the use of colours and images. It is quite simple to be surfed, as opposed to Hillary’s one, which I consider a bit overwhelming and confusing, with too many colours and tools. However, Barack Obama’s website is a little too “romantic” considering the fact that is a website for political elections; even if the Obama family’s photo on the homepage is really nice and can be effective for a certain kind of audience, I defitely prefer Hillary’s pragmatism.
That is all for the moment, but I will keep following the American elections beacause I’m getting more and more fond about them and I haven’t yet decided for which of the two democratic candidates “I would vote”! Moreover, I have to look for information about John McCain too! The real campaing has not yet become!
The new semester has just begun and so my blog is about to be updated weekly again!
The task for this first e-tivity is very interesting because it has given me the chance to look for more information about the US election campaings which actually I’ve been following day by day on the news. However, thanks to this e-tivity I’ve done something which probably I would have never done, that is to say, listening to a great number of speeches of the two democratic candidates, and, visit their own websites.
I’ve chosen to follow the democratic campaing because I’m getting more and more involved in this challenge between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, which actually is fascinating the entire world! I believe that such a challenge between candidates belonging to the same party is a great demonstration of democracy, which eventually is something unknown in a country like Italy, where we’re not allowed to choose pretty anything, neither the candidate we want to vote, or the President we would like to have. We’re living a political campaing in our country too, so that it is even more interesting to see how things are ruled abroad, in order to become aware of what’s wrong with our democratic system. Moreover, what is extremely interesting is the fact that this US campaing is having a worldwide resonance; all around the world people is interested in knowing who’s won in which state, eventually neither knowing where that state is. All around the world people say things like “If I were American, I would vote for Hillary or Obama” and these are just the primary elections. This fact means that the interest in who’s going to rule America for the next 4 or 8 years in relevant for the rest of the world; nowadays, in fact, being it right or not, where goes America, there follow the other countries.
As for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s speeches, I’ve compared what they’ve said on March, 4th, after the great day of the primary elections in a number of American states. As for Hillary’s speech, I’ve seen that she often uses very short and effective sentences, she’s able to focus the main point of what she’s saying very quickly, but, on the other hand, she’s often a very patriotic attitude, which she stresses maybe too much. Hillary likes to underline her being experienced in the whole White House matter, for instance when she says that: “When there's a crisis and that phone rings at 3 a.m. in the White House, there's no time for speeches or on-the-job training. You have to be ready to make a decision”. She is the one who knows how it works, she is the one who’s already been there, and this is one of the strong points of her campaign. Moreover, Hillary obviously stresses the role of women, and I particularly noticed the fact that when she thanks some Senator or Governor, she always thanks thier wives too: she’s been the wife of the US President, and she knows the role a wife has in the career of her husband.
If on the one hand Hillary’s speeches are effective and easy to follow, Barack Obama’s ones are maybe less formal. His sentences are much longer and complicated than Hillary’s ones, and he’s got a stronger accent, but his style is more attractive, more young-looking and his sentences seem to be more natural (as for example when, in the middle of his speech, he tells his slogna in spanish “Sì, se puede”). He doesn’t look like a traditional “politician”, even though his speeches are full of slogans such as “We believe” or “We can”. He likes to stress himself being the “new one”, being “the one who will bring change” in the system, as opposed to Hillary traditionalism and experience. He also stresses the importance of the family as a whole, as opposed to Hillary’s focus on women.
Anyway, the strong points of thier campaings are more or less the same: the need of ending the wars, the economic recession, health care and the problem of those who are homeless.
With reference to thier websites, I must say that I really like Barack Obama’s one, which I found effective in the general outlook, in style and in the use of colours and images. It is quite simple to be surfed, as opposed to Hillary’s one, which I consider a bit overwhelming and confusing, with too many colours and tools. However, Barack Obama’s website is a little too “romantic” considering the fact that is a website for political elections; even if the Obama family’s photo on the homepage is really nice and can be effective for a certain kind of audience, I defitely prefer Hillary’s pragmatism.
That is all for the moment, but I will keep following the American elections beacause I’m getting more and more fond about them and I haven’t yet decided for which of the two democratic candidates “I would vote”! Moreover, I have to look for information about John McCain too! The real campaing has not yet become!
Camilla
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