A Rhetorical Analysis Of President Barack Obama

The President attempted to persuade his audiences by determining his credential as the President of the America. Obama used logos technique to persuade the crowd about what he was saying. He said “That’s my judgment as Commander-in-Chief. But I’m also the President of the world’s oldest constitutional democracy”. Bu using logos, he hoped to receive not only support from the citizens but also from the Congress because he believed “America acts more effectively abroad when we stand together." Obama asserted his power as an efficient way to convince the audiences trusting on the fact and the consequences that he had mentioned. As a President of a nation, Obama had a large vision and enough experiencing lessons to ask for the actions and suggest the solutions for protecting his country’s security. Obama understood that he could not decide …show more content…
The President depicted the general context in Syria to describe how devastated the Syria was after being attacked by the chemical weapon. He said, “The images from this massacre are sickening, men, women foaming at the mouth, grasping for breath, a father clutching his dead children, imploring them to get up and walk”. Obama intentionally noticed the image of children in his statement because he knows many people in the crowd are parents, so they understand how a father or a mother feel when witnessing the beloved child passed away. The Presidents caused tears for his audiences by putting them in the context that they had to think of their children at home. Any parent in this world wants to protect their children until the last breath and create a safest place for them to live; therefore, the arguments of the President totally effected the emotions of many people and urged them to think of the solutions which helped to prevent the spreading of the chemical weapon to their