Like
all people, he also has his good qualities as well. He makes eye contact with
entire audience, smiles constantly, and his tone isn’t monotonous. But like all
people, he has faults. I found that there was a lack of hand gestures, but it
is also possible that the camera shot the video too high and simply didn’t
catch the gestures. Another fault is that he seems to be shuffling around
constantly.
Mitt
Romney makes a big point in making sure that the audience understands that he
wants to make a difference for Americans. Instead of conserving the planet (like
Obama), he wants to help families get on with their life; helping improve
MediCare for seniors and elderly or providing jobs for individuals, supporting
small businesses, and school for kids. Also, he describes Americans as a “unique
blend of optimism, humility and utter confidence”, saying that he believes in
America and wants what’s best for his country. He also speaks of freedom and
accepts that every individual, every American, is unique in their own way. He
relates to people of his generation, connecting directly with the people by
using well known facts: Neil Armstrong being the first American on the moon.
The
majority of this speech speaks of his inspirations: his father, his mother. “My dad had been
born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution. I
grew up with stories of his family being fed by the US Government as war
refugees. My dad never made it through college and apprenticed as a lath and
plaster carpenter. And he had big dreams.”
This line indicates how much he admires his father, and later on in the speech,
he mentions how he intended to follow his father’s footsteps. “When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was
there for her every step of the way.” He admired how his mother ran for
Senate and how his father stood with her every step of the way, without being
IN the way. Another inspiration was how his mother left her dreams of being an
actress behind her; “He [his father] convinced
my mom, a beautiful young actress, to give up Hollywood to marry him. He moved
to Detroit, led a great automobile company and became Governor of the Great
State of Michigan.” Not only was he inspired by these people, we can also
be inspired by him. He accepts people for who they are, because his parents
showed him that they “cared deeply about
who we would BE, and much less about what we would DO.” and loved him and
his siblings unconditionally. “As
Governor of Massachusetts, I chose a woman Lt. Governor, a woman chief of staff,
half of my cabinet and senior officials were women, and in business, I mentored
and supported great women leaders who went on to run great companies.” As
one of the candidates for President of the USA, he shows great respect for
women, the women who had once not been allowed to vote, to illustrate their
concerns and beliefs. He gives them second chances. “We started a new business called Bain Capital. The only problem was,
while WE believed in ourselves, nobody else did. We were young and had never done
this before and we almost didn’t get off the ground. In those days, sometimes I
wondered if I had made a really big mistake. I had thought about asking my
church’s pension fund to invest, but I didn't. I figured it was bad enough that
I might lose my investors’ money, but I didn’t want to go to hell too. Shows
what I know. Another of my partners got the Episcopal Church pension fund to
invest. Today there are a lot of happy retired priests who should thank him.
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American
success story. Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An
office supply company called Staples – where I'm pleased to see the Obama
campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my
sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that
First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. At a time when nobody thought we'd
ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a
corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel
producers in the United States.” This was what I found the most inspiring.
Many people would’ve have given up, but persevering was what allowed him and
his partners to reach their goals, to make their dreams a reality.
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