Logical Fallacies In President Obama's Speech

In his speech, “Remarks by the President in a National Address to America’s Schoolchildren,” Obama effectively argues his claim, that kids should go to school and try very hard to succeed to schoolchildren around the U.S. He effectively argues his claim because he uses supporting details and stories of students that have undergone tough situations, but still overcame those obstacles to succeed and school. Also, he is trying to tell kids that they should do well in school to get a good job and make a difference. He also uses rhetorical appeals to help with the supporting details. One of supporting evidence that he brought up was that if someone wants to become something such as a doctor, or lawyer you will need a good education to do

When certain people make speeches, don’t you just feel inspired by their words? For these certain people, they all put it into the delivery of their speeches to be as influential as possible. They use many forms of rhetoric to achieve their goals and gain support. This is the case for Obama’s Speech on the death of Osama Bin Laden. The goal of Obama’s speech is to unite the American people and support the war on terrorism. Obama’s creative choice of words are used as tools to persuade people.

When the twin towers were destroyed in New York City by the terrorist group led by Osama Bin Laden, a Country filled with panic, sadness, and anger was left behind. Thousands of innocent civilians were killed, and the families of the fallen suffered greatly. People demanded answers, and wanted justice. People also felt unsafe, and were unaware if it was reasonable to expect another attack. President George Walker Bush prepares a speech for congress to discuss the events that took place, and the plans that will take place because of these events. The objectives of the speech Bush was trying to accomplish were informing the nation what had happed on September 11th, he then noted that it was not Muslins to be blamed for the attack, the challenges that lie ahead, and our plan for the “War on Terror.” The President uses the canons of rhetoric to execute a speech that met his audience’s needs.

President Obama made clear that the budget for the country was the first thing mentioned when discussing finance and economics. Obama suggested that the budget was directly tied to the strength of the nation. The president spoke about the deficit reduction of over $2.5 trillion over the last few years.

On May 1, 2011 many Americans received the message we never thought would come. Every single American was glued to their television sets that evening for a message we would never forget. It had been previously leaked to the public that maybe Osama Bin Laden had in fact been killed, but it was still uncertain until President Obama addressed the nation confirming his death. This ten minute speech awaited the ears of millions of Americans longing for justice, and that night it had been served. Barrack Obama was able to convey his message using various rhetorical devices, making his speech one that was truly effective and memorable.

“Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice,” Obama said at a conference in Boston with Dr. Roxane Gay. “It doesn’t say as much about Hillary, and everybody’s trying to worry about what it means for Hillary and no, no, no, what does this mean for us, as women? That we look at those two candidates, as women, and many of us said, ‘He’s better for me. His voice is more true to me.’ To me that just says, you don’t like your voice. You like the thing you’re told to like.”

Throughout the course of American history, one conflict which has never been solved is the conflict of illegal immigration. There have been an influx of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border and trying to thrive and achieve the American dream however people oppose that because illegal immigrants can pose a threat to the American country due to the number of drug cartels which run in Mexico. The United States of America’s former president, Barack Obama addresses the nation over the crises of immigration. Obama writes the speech because of the conflict of multiple illegal immigrants flooding into the United States. This address which Barack writes is directed towards the American citizens. The main intention of President Obama

When we think of leaders of America, whom do we think of? Someone who is honest, trustworthy, and loyal, right? We want someone who will have our country’s best interest at heart. As we listened to Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convection, we can trust Obama’s credibility because of her accomplishments while in the white house and by her actions that have proven her character. Obama is not only the first lady of the United States; she is an activist, service leader, and most importantly a mother. Through a majority of her speech, Obama primarily places an emphasis on the future of our children to grasp the attention of her audience. She was able to relay the importance of role models, leadership, and parenthood in her

Every year around January or February the President of the United States, in this case, President Obama, gives a speech to both houses of the US Congress: The US Senate and the US House of Representatives. This speech is called the State of the Union Speech. In this speech, the President discusses how our nation is doing, whether it be good or bad and all the work that needs to be done to maintain or fix our nation. Some of the social circumstances that were taking place during the time of the speech were Abortion rights, Gun control issues and LGBT rights. Examples of political issues that were present were trade, energy and oil, war and taxes.

¨Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

First of all, you have no idea how people voted. I voted for Obama for the Hope and Change that I thought was so desperately needed after Bush. Well, that was a loss because Mr. Obama has taken what was bad and made it worse. Plus, many people voted for Obama only because he was black so stop with the bullshit racist reasons of why you think people hate his policies. Obama has divided our country by sex, by race, by gender, by race, by religious beliefs, by RACE! The fact that there are plenty of black police, judges, politicians, doctors, lawyers, professors, etc shows the country has not tried to keep the black person down. You wanna keep talking about race? Fine! Not only that, but Obama DIVIDED this country by race. How he pulled the race card when that Micheal Brown thug got shot by a police officer when he tried to steal his gun. He slandered police officers saying they are being predatory against blacks. But yet I still see black thugs breaking the law and being shot because they still try to put up a fight with police officers. What about those riots? The BLM (which is a racist and domestic

Throughout Obama’s entire speech, she uses conduplicatio to emphasize her words and to evoke feelings in her audience. For example, when Obama introduces the speech to the audience, she states, “That is the story of this country, the story that has brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage….” This repetition of “the story” is used to emphasize that America’s history is an important matter, and in that history, people fought for freedom. People often use the word “freedom” and its synonyms to describe America. By stating that people “felt the lash of bondage” in America’s past and present evokes feelings in the audience as it insinuates that this country is not as free as Americans believe.

Moreover, speech also used a vivid imagery of “red states and blue states” to stand for the different politic party in the America, and Obama link this sentence with “we are, and always will be the United States of America.” which its aim is to keep his nation in peace and unity. Nevertheless, in this speech, Barack Obama did not trying to play a role as a leader but a normal person that same with most of American citizen, and the 6th paragraph in the speech used a technique of pathos to convey it.

Barack Obama’s insightful speech into the intricacies of race relations, delivered in March 2008, outlined his views surrounding the difficulties many Americans faced. The majority of the speech extolled features of the experiences of an African-American and the various problems seemingly without solution. Much of this portion of the speech was addressed to the white population to give them context for the hardships in the African-American community that led to “the erosion of black families,” high crime rates and lack of “building code enforcement” creating a “cycle of violence” (Obama). The speech then adresses black people concerning the feelings of the middle-class white population in an attempt to show that each can relate to and sympathize with the experiences of the other. It outlines the “white resentment” at seeing people of other races receiving compensation for an “injustice that they themselves never committed” (Obama). Given the recent incendiary comments of his former pastor, Reverend Wright, Obama decidedly stated that many of the comments were racially or ethnically charged in a manner inappropriate for the goal of creating a united society for the benefit of his critics.

“Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.” (Stokes, 2017). On January 5, 2016 President Barack Obama delivered a speech unveiling a new set of extensive actions aimed at limiting gun violence in the United States of America. The speech is arguably one of the most honest, personal, and emotionally appealing speeches ever given by Obama in his presidential tenure. It is the goal of this paper to provide a meaningful analysis of President Obama’s speech using an Aristotelian criticism to show how this speech in particular was one his most forthright.