President Barack Obama made a highly emotional farewell speech from his home town Chicago. He is regarded as the third-best orator among US presidents after John F. Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Obama at his best is in some ways an even better orator than Kennedy or Roosevelt, and more accomplished than the great communicator Ronald Reagan, a trained actor, and Bill Clinton.
Obama is remembered for many outstanding orations, including the one in Cairo University and at Nelson Mandela’s funeral, for which he got a standing ovation. He does not need notes or a teleprompter.
The curtain is falling on eight years of Obama as the first-ever black president of America. This great man is gracefully stepping down, making way for a white president again. The entire world will miss his marvellous orations. Thank you, Obama, but do not make it the last we hear of you. Good luck and best wishes to you.
Obama’s emotional farewell speech
