Obama Acceptance Speech

Obama in his acceptance speech uses a combination of the three forms of rhetoric. He evokes pathos when he refers to the people that are suffering from the presidential labor of George Bush and from the economical crisis. He uses logos to blame and to state facts that McCain has done or that Bush has done. He also uses ethos to tell the people that they are a better nation than what they have now, and shouldn’t be suffering what they are suffering with economics and the presidential work.




Ethos: “America we are a better country than this.”
“We love this country too much to let there happen what happened in the last 8 years”
“It is time for us to change America”
“We democrats have a very different measure of progress; we measure with jobs, average income, economy that honors dignity of work”


Pathos: “A man in Indiana has to pack up equipment that he has worked on for 20 years and watches it shipped up to China”
“Man who knew that plant was closing up but still worked because he knew that they needed that”
“Mom that worked on night shifts so we could go to school”


Logos: “McCain supports Bush 90% of the time”
“McCain has said that we have become a nation of whiners”


Forensic: “Failure to respond, direct result of broken policies in Washington and failed policies of George W Bush.”