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all right people were continuing with President Obama's inauguration speech of

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2013 analyzing the Shmoop out of it all right here we go next question [text on screen]

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President Obama suggests that all Americans share which of the following

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traits all right well we don't really have to go back to the text here there's [text on screen]

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no specific thing being cited so we're just kind of thinking aloud here well

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what is it desire to take on tough challenges what's the most generic so

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let's go with a yep that's the answer a the president spends a good deal of time

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defining the national character he does this in large part by reminding [Statue of Liberty]

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Americans of the challenges they have faced in the past saying that they all

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have a celebration of initiative and enterprise in common he's saying that [people celebrating]

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Americans prize having the desire to take on new and difficult challenges [Rocky vs. Uncle Sam]

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together well Obama does seem to want to improve America's infrastructure yeah he [road work time lapse]

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loves spending on buses and trains and planes and automobiles he suggests that

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all Americans know the importance of railroads and highways but he never says [picture of Obama]

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that a majority favor spending money on them so be is out he also gives examples [text on screen]

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of American achievements like social safety nets which involved government [water dam]

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intervention in personal affairs let's see yeah if you want to call that Social

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Security it's not like spying on your you know secret Yahoo account and he

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says the tax code must be revamped but he doesn't specifically say that while [text on screen]

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the people have requested the change even though probably a hundred and [people on strike]

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fourteen percent probably would want to revamp so but in this case well we can

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Nix D so yeah the answer is a they have the desire to take on tough challenges

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and when you get these kind of questions on tests almost always go with the most [student writing]

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generic broad vanilla bland potential answer and though you probably get to

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the right thing and then you could also probably run for president [students running for president]

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