Analysis of FDR's Four Freedoms

FDR's speech was very well articulated and written, but the opening was a bit confusing and too broad. His main point in this speech was to deter American's from denying the war on the basis of our values and freedoms, yet he started the speech by talking about the rise of America from the Revoultionary War. I undersand the connection he was drawing, but felt a bit put off by the length it took him to reach his thesis. His thesis was, that as long as Americans stand idle on the subject of entering the war, they would be endanger of loosing liberty and freedom; the more democratic nations that fall to tyranny, the more in jeopardy we are in loosing all that we have come to know. The thesis was a good, because it left room for debate. In his speech FDR managed to convey his thesis very well with evidence, but at some point the evidence becomes unclear in the relation to his thesis. The reader begans to hear about war costs and medical care, in which I have to question where his focus is. The speech does a very well job at articulating why Americans should help the war effort, but at times it becomes to wordy. The reader or listener, in this casse Congress, must question what point he is getting at. The end of the speech, however, does manage to pull the entire thought process together.