Obama's Speech

Stop... It's Obama time.

http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/obamas-speech


McCain Obama: More Alike than we thought?

After reading one of McCain’s speeches and one of Obama’s, there are some differences but strangely, a lot of similarities.

First, both speeches used words like ‘we’ and ‘us’ and ‘our’. This gave both candidates the illusion of being on an equal playing field as the everyday American. This also allows them to spread the credit around to others and to even direct blame off of themselves and their party. These words also attempt to draw the listener in, as if the candidate were talking specifically to them and the unite us all. It seems like a lot is compiled into these simple words but they don’t continually occur throughout the speeches on accident.

Both candidates also create a lot of scenarios of ordinary people. Both use examples like ‘Billy the janitor in Ohio can’t pay off his debts’ multiple times. They repeat phrases like this over and over. It gives the candidates the appearance of knowing and caring for the ordinary people of America.


Both candidates attack one another in their speeches although their attack patterns differ. McCain tells the listener what Obama wishes to do and then tells you his view and insinuates that his view is the superior one. Obama, on the other hand, seems to relate McCain to President Bush and attack McCain more directly. Obama seems to spend more time attacking McCain than McCain does attacking Obama.

Throughout the speech they have different view but they seem to use similar speaking techniques. However, nothing can be more generic and overused than both candidates ending sentence… God bless America.

Well God bless English class…