Monday, November 12, 2012
Victory For Him or Them?
After months of hard work and campaigning, United States' President Barrack Obama has won his second term in office. His victory speech, other than inspiring, included much rhetoric that needed to be analyzed. To get the citizens the reassurance of the right decision Obama used fallacies for persuasion. His most obvious, and most successful for persuasion, fallacy was bringing an end to all their problems with hard work. This could work, though for now, you'd want the people's morale high. Despite his fallacies, Obama uses the past and future tense ably giving the people reassurance and something to expect in the coming years. It was great to see such a powerful speech being phrased by a great person.
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Manuel,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you in that Obama, like most politicians, likes to talk about the future and do that in the future tense. However, I don't exactly get why you say that working hard solves problems is a fallacy. Perhaps it was Obama's wording, but politicians say a lot that they want to create jobs to improve economic problems, which for me seems to connect the proof to the conclusion. Also, a lot of people during economic crises voluntarily try to work harder to remain competitive, so I don't think it necessarily lowers people's morale. I think your blog entry is concise in a good way and gets to the point.