Thursday, January 24, 2013

Blog 1: Obama, Foreign Policy, Inequality


            On Tuesday January 22, 2013 an article from CNN called “World to Obama: You can’t ignore us” is referring to President Obama’s Inauguration speech and how he did not speak much about foreign policy. He was more focused on his goals for the United States in his new current term and outlining a progressive vision of a country with less inequality and more justice. “But the most subtly striking part of Obama’s inauguration speech was how it largely ignored the rest of the globe. In his 20-minute address, he dedicated perhaps one minute to foreign policy.”
            President Obama wanted to address the main situations that concerned the United States nationally rather than internationally. Many would think that Obama was treating foreign policy unequally but really in retrospect the inauguration is about what the United States can do to improve issues that are currently going on in the country rather than focusing on other nations. Many people have been critical on President Obama because of his skin color and many still seem to not accept that we have a black president. It is obvious that Obama has plans for his foreign policy and it is not like he didn’t mention it at all even though it was for a short period of time. 

Tyler McNeely
1/25/13 12:25 AM

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