Obama Rally

Obama’s presence at the Magness Arena was an amazing experience. He is a great speaker and his words really reached out to the hearts of the people. What an inspirational guy! On January 30, 2008, Barack Obama told 18,000 people how he could unite the country. He said that he would make a good president because he would work on building America’s future rather than dwelling on the past. “Change” was the theme of Obama’s speech. He made notice to the destruction and mistakes in which George W. Bush has made while in office, and insisted that America needs change. These changes included education and rewarding all college students with $4,000, health care reforms, environmental reforms such as the global warming issue, soldiers being withdrawn from the war in Iraq, increase in jobs and the economy, lower tax cuts, better pay for teachers and other hard workers, and just unity as a growing nation. Obama made many promises to the nation on January 30, 2008, and has been making promises since he has been campaigning for president.
Obama really reached out to the hearts of the people. Better pay, lower tax cuts, education reforms, health care reforms, and other key points were all things in which we as United State’s citizens wanted to hear. He instilled a sense of trust within us. He seems so real, as if he is in our shoes and knows what we are going through. With every word that he speaks, he establishes rapport, and accountability. His ability to empathize with us and be not only an ally for our wants and needs, but an advocate for them means a lot. These are all pathos or emotional appeals meant to reach our hearts and develop a trusting relationship where we will feel comfortable with him as leader of our country. Also, his argument was ethical because he talked about our rights to have education and afford health care. He discussed the soldiers rights to have disability if hurt and be able to come home to their families. These were all ethical, common sense points which made his argument strong. Obama told us what we wanted to hear, but also what needed to be done, which demonstrated both pathos and ethos within his argument.