Global Voices Communications

“As speechwriters, we often write with a specific person or group of people in mind — the people we want the speech to connect with, emotionally. In this case, I kept thinking of one of my uncles, born and bred in Boston who, to me, embodied the Boston Strong spirit of pride and defiance we saw that week.”

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“It made a big impression on me,” one Havana resident told an American reporter. It showed that President Obama seems to be “open-minded, reasonable and someone capable of putting himself in other’s shoes.”

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