Words Speak More Than Actions

The last hour and a half have been very crucial for both presidential candidates. It was their last debate before the United States Presidential elections. Though preferring to watch one of my T.V shows instead of this, I found it quite interesting. It did create the occasional laugh, scoff, sigh, whatever emotion it made you get, the use if rhetoric from both candidates was more than enough to keep track of. Ethos, pathos, logos, forensic, deliberative, and demonstrative were all shown, some more than others.

Heated as always, the debate contained a lot of forensic toward each other. Romney started by saying something about Obama "apologetic tour" around the middle east which caused Obama to back-fire Romney's "logos" with pure forensic blame proving it with his own logos. As this continued for some parts of the debate overall each candidate chose their weapon of choice.

Romney showed a lot of pathos trying to get the audience to side him by describing the U.S as having a "prosperous future, being blessed with a great military", and giving the american people choices to forget the mistakes Obama did in his four year period. Romney seemed to use these forms of rhetoric to boost himself into popularity seeing that he is doing these changes for the people and trying to have them against Obama.

Obama on the other hand used more forensic and logos. He blamed Romney for contradicting much of his statements he had done weeks before the debate. This helped him stun Romney for few seconds. His use of logos helped back his previous accomplishments he had done in his four year period as well as improve for his reelection. Obama seemed to use these forms of rhetoric to contradict and stun Romney and reach out to people on how facts and figures reflect upon his accomplishments as president.

Overall I found this final debat very interesting. I just can't wait to see who wins this years election after what seems to be a very close call.