Good Bless Rhetoric

You can be a democrat, and be pro-Obama, or be a republican and vote for McCain. Either way, you have to admit Obama is great in doing Rhetoric speeches. I watched this video twice. The first time, I found myself agreeing with what he was saying, totally convinced that he knew how things had to be done. The second time I watched it, I was amazed at how great Obama is in mixing rhetoric with his words. Obama uses a lot of logos in his arguments. He blames McCain for past actions and accuses him of ignorance. “Its not that John McCain doesn’t care, it’s that he doesn’t get it.” In other words, Obama is trying to convince people he is the one that gets it, the one that knows what’s right for America. He also uses logos when he refers to the actual proposal of the republicans. What republicans offer, according to Obama, is that you are always on your own.
Obama does a very smart thing. He proposes change. He convinces the people that change is what America needs. He argues that after 8 years of the same thing, it would be useless to vote for a person who will keep following Bush’s footsteps. He refers to McCain as the past and himself as the future.
One of the most interesting, rhetoric things he does comes up next. He brings up his family examples and makes people believe he has lived what they are living. As soon as he says he’ll make everyone have a medical insurance, so that there wont be people like his mother, fighting cancer and have a difficult financial time, he has half of the people convinced (including me, I have to say). Obama used Ethos in a great way. He had people convinced he had lived their reality, he made people feel they were understood, their prayers were being heard. He mentioned his heroes were his grandparents and mom, who never had it easy. Most of the Americans too have had to struggle and this made them feel understood, they related to Obama’s story. Obama has people believe he wants to “make it easier to Americans.”
Obama’s speech only goes uphill. He starts using pathos and brings up “moral obligation”, which people get exited and has them even stand up. He starts talking about how he wants “his daughters to have the same opportunities as their sons.” He talks about there being equality to all and improvement in childhood education, topics that are very important for Americans.
After talking about both great and past democratic presidents, accusing McCain for being pro- war in Iraq and saying he’ll restore “the sense of common purpose”, Obama ends his speech using Ethos. He says, “This election has never been about me, it’s about you”. With this, people end up feeling important, as if they were being heard by him, a sensation of times of change, of something different, which is what Americans want, what they desperately need.