New Ideas: Are They Really?

"These challenges are all of governments making; but the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and failed policies of Gorge W. Bush."Barack Obama's acceptance speech in the National Democratic Convention of 2088 capured so many people's hearts and minds and lead them to think of thim as The Candidate. Pursuing the problem concerning the current governing situation, he proposed a very strong point regarding the present/future. "We are here because we love this country too much to the next four years be like the last eight." Because of the proposition being so strong people start chanting "Eight is enough!"

He uses very well Rhetoric, the manipulation of people's fellings and thoughts to get them to agree with you. For example, at one point he talks about John McCain is a former-American Troop therefore making him an American Hero.m This gets us (the spectators) thinking that he has a clean campaign. Although, he later talks about how McCain supports Bush in 90% of the cases. He also quotes Mccain, "We've become " a nation of whiners"."

Teamwork. Supposedly the United States promotes it but apperently doesn't apply it. That they've created an Ownership Society which means that if you're, "Born into Poverty? Pull yourself by your own bootstraps even if you don't have boots. You're on your own." Notice how all through this speech you see Forensic Rhetoric; Using blame and afterward proposing ideas for the future which would make it Deliberative Rhetoric, of choice.

Our inability to see our opponent in a good way has prevented us from seeing all of us as one. We point out some details thay may not be true that drive our opponent to the ground. "The ides that people cannot dissagree without challenging eachothers character, and eachothers patriotism." "So I've got news for you John McCain: We all put our country first." Though we may have different opinions with regard to situations we all have a "sense of Common Purpose."
"We may not agree on abortion. But surely we can agree on reducing the nubre of unwanted pregnancies in this country." Why fight against eachother when we both want the same thing for the overall greater-good?

My point of view regarding the ultilization of rhetoric is that it is corrupt. Clever, but corrupt. It's like publicity: you do something according to the reactions that you will get. Basically you fix a target and manipulate them to try to get them to agree with you. I see that this is a crucial strategic move for campaigns but maybe there is another way. You see him using all types of Rhetoric: pathos, logos, ethos, forensic, deliberative and demonstrative. Pathos: when he talks about his mother lying in bead talkind to the insurance companies. Logos: when he talks about the reasons for the economic slump. Ethos: about his father from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. I thought it was very interesting how he targeted some of the audience such as ecologists, troops, patriots, less-fortunate people, srudents, parents and the overall population.

Giving the people what they want, what they want to hear. Standing up for them when McCain called them whiners. Making promises to"fix" the tax problems, the ones in Iraq with the troops. "As president, as president, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. " FAcing and proposing solutions for not only a nation-wide problem but a world-wide problem. We all know about these issues but don't know how to solve them. He is a hero. He will "rescue us"(Very well-written speech)

Overall Obama knows what he is doing. He is winning over the mionds and hearts of all americans.