Whom I don't hate.

Senator Barack Obama is an amazing speaker. I got chicken skin while hearing him talk! It is really touchy and even though I am not very much into politics this guy made me want to be active on his campaign. I noticed that we kind of divided his speech into three parts, demonstrative, forensic and finally deliberative. He makes the audience be with him all the time and be so focused that in every word not only he puts emphasis to, the audience itself does also. Since the assignment was to recognize the logos, pathos and ethos then I focused on that. I noticed that he uses a lot of pathos when he talks about his family members and that they are his role models because of all the things they have accomplished. He mentions his grandparents, his mother, his wife and girls. “my mother, who had to work so hard and still was able to put her kinds into the best schools with help of school lawns and scholarships” he uses pathos, trying to get the audience feeling somewhat “pity” with the facts that his mother had to work so hard, and yet he also uses ethos because he is saying that he got scholarships, as well as his siblings. I loved the way he attacked Senator John McCain, because he didn’t do it in a way to put him down, but to somehow tell the audience that he is not really worth it in a very civilized way. “It is not that John McCain doesn’t care, John McCain simply doesn’t get it” that is ethos. The whole audience laughs somehow telling themselves “that is so true…” Another way he used pathos was talking in the way the democratic measure progress “we measure progress by how many people have jobs that pay enough to oay the mortgage….we measure progress if a waitress that lives from tips can take a day off to look after a sick child and not loosing her job” WOW that is touchy, it is like if he understood every individual in every sense and if a waitress that heard that had passed through that particular situation heard that she would probably think “JESUS! This man knows what he is talking about”. Obama also talks using logos for example when he is talking the way a country, or in this case U.S.A, should work “ Our government should work for us, not against us, it should help us, not hurt us, is should ensure opportunities not only to millionaires but to every American who is willing to work”

Going a little off the topic about ethos, logos and pathos, Obama seems to be a very good candidate for the presidential role of U.S.A. He is humble, he is strong willing, he is “berraco”, and he is smart and very modest. I like that about him. On the other hand McCain evokes hate in me. I don’t really know what his proposals are but the few time I have heard him speak, it seems to me that is everything but humble or modest. He seems to be self centered and “showy”… Just like George Bush, whom I hate.