Obama's Speech: The Ideal American Dream

In my opinion, Obama’s speech is about having a mindset on something and continuing to make that idea come to life. This is the ideal American Dream. For me, my American Dream is to attend CalArts, which is a college in California, or an art college somewhere in New York. It’s a very difficult college to get into, but if I keep up my GPA and work hard, I think it’s accomplishable. As for my parents, my dad told me his dream was to be the boss of his own restaurant. He’s been told by his friends that owning a restaurant was very difficult and that he wasn’t able to do it. Obama said that we are able to do anything if we put our best foot forward. It all has to do with the “our actions” and “our attitudes” and that’s what my dad did. Now, he