A president’s inaugural address is not just a celebratory speech. It is an American tradition that often sets the stage for an entire presidency. An "inaugural address" is the presidential speech given which inform the people of the president’s intentions as a leader. As we have witnessed, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States. Obama has a bundle of issues he needs to address in his presidency, but so did the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Both of these presidents had lengthy inaugural addresses, but both definitely addressed their goals and priorities for their country. Throughout the essay, I will compare and contrast both presidents in their inaugural speech and also other ties; As well say if President Lincoln accomplished what he had set out for.
First, the comparing and contrasting of both presidents in their many ties. “They are big shoes to fill by any standard, political or historical.” Pointing to his oversize, specially made boots, Abraham Lincoln once confided that he may have been slow to put his foot down, but once he did, he never went back. That's a lesson worth learning for any president-elect. And few incoming chief executives have been as conscious of the 16th president as the 44th: Barack Obama. The new president-elect wrote about Lincoln in his acclaimed books. He not only chose to announce his candidacy for the presidency on Lincoln's birthday, in 2006, but did so outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, where Lincoln delivered his famous "House Divided" speech in 1858 and where he had his headquarters as president-elect. The countless comparisons between the two skinny, big-eared Illinoisans- Obama's own fond description- are already entering the realm of modern legend. Both were believed too inexperienced to be president.
Both were long-shot underdogs for their party's nomination. Yet each went on not only to win, but to nominate the defeated party favorite (who happened to be...