Jake Johnson Source Summary

My primary source is a speech given by our President Barrack Obama. For the paper I will be using a variety of speeches and articles by him, but for the purpose of this summary, i chose one that was given recently. John Boehner recently called one of his tax proposals “class warfare”, and in one of his most controversial speeches as president, he denied this claims calling it “math” not class warfare. The speech was given in front of the White House.with the purpose of essentially telling John Boehner “screw you”. That is the implicit message. of the speech. There were clearly other parts of the speech that were on different topics, acting as explicit sources about financial plans, goals etc. but it was essentially in response to comments made by Boehner. The message in this source is the underlying theme of class warfare playing a huge roll in our political debates today. The President and the Speaker of the House John Boehner only fuel this fire, by accusing each other of encouraging this warfare. I chose this speech because I have been following Obama for a long time, and I have felt for a while he played up the social classes as a meaning of defining people. I never really had heardthe phrase “class warfare” before this class, but when we started going into what exactly class warfare is, I was excited to be writing a paper about it, because I knew I would be able to use my interest in Obama’s speeches to write a paper about something that interests me.