The First Amendment

Sources:
Pundits Boo Obama Speech. June 16, 2010.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38609_Page2.html

Constitutional Connection:
The Amendments,The First Amendment, Freedom of Religion,Press,Expression
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Explanation of Connection:

    This past June, President Barack Obama gave a speech addressing the recent crisis of the BP oil spill. Soon after President Obama gave his speech, it was declared to have been an "emphatic failure" , by much of the public. The public and news stations soon expressed their opinions on Obama's failure to rise to the occasion of the BP oil spill.

   Worldwide their were negative remarks towards the President. Keith Olberman commented " It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days" . Other harsh remarks were indicated  by Fox news commentator, Charles Krauthammer. Such as, "I didn't feel any energy in the first two-thirds of the speech in which he talked about cleanup. He's not a cleanup guy. He's a guy who dreams," and "He said if we could land a man on the moon, so why not have this glorious green energy? That's the most tired trope we've ever heard,“People have said if you can land a man on the moon, so why can't you cure cancer? Well, we can't. We don't know how to." Since he is the President you might think people would have refrained from such dissonant remarks, either out of respect for the President or out of fear of  reprimand by the Oval Office. But people exercised their first amendment right to freedom of speech to the fullest extent. In full confidence of the amendment, when responding to the President's speech. They believed that his speech did not do his postion as the president justice, and found it very dishearteming and too broad for the topic at hand.

   I believe that the public and news stations may have been to hard on Obama's response to the BP oil spill.  I believe their was strategy and purpose to his speech, but people did not receive his message well, because of the way it was delivered. I also believe that the people who responded so harshly,as well as the few who responded optimistically are all entitled to the right to express their opinions.