At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Current Senatorial candidate, Barack Obama delivered the Keynote speech. In the speech, Obama introduces John Kerry as the Democratic Candidate to run against the incumbent President, George W. Bush. Obama delivers this speech to rally his fellow democrats to stand behind John Kerry and his running mate, John Edwards, to meet the incredibly difficult task of beating a Presidential incumbent in their second bid for office. In order to achieve the massive amounts of motivation and initiative to meet such a victory, Barack Obama develops a highly effective argument by building up his credibility before using parallel structure to create unity and ending with an appeal to hope. He does this to move his
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After any election, including primary elections, many people within the party are still divided and the losers are usually sour over their desired candidates defeat. In order to combat this, Obama employs parallel structure throughout this speech, not only to unify members of the democratic party but the Republicans as well. Obama discusses how “if there is a child on the south side of chicago that can’t read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child”. He then goes on to repeat that structure with Senior citizens and Arab Americans before stating “E Pluribus Unum, Out of many, one.” This structure makes every american in the audience feel not only connected to the problems that Obama has stated affects him but also connects every member of the DNC audience together under one country. By ending the series of parallel structure with the nations motto, Obama was able to effectively unite the members of the audience to desire a change. This desire in turn motivates people to make a change, thus, it effectively works within Obama's rallying purpose. In the same fashion, Obama connects his audience through parallel structure to the rest of the country stating “there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.” This usage of parallel structure breaks down societal barriers within the nation and causes the audience to feel united and patriotic towards the initiative Obama is imposing. By doing this Obama effectively gets his audience to stand united behind his purpose of getting John Kerry
After any election, including primary elections, many people within the party are still divided and the losers are usually sour over their desired candidates defeat. In order to combat this, Obama employs parallel structure throughout this speech, not only to unify members of the democratic party but the Republicans as well. Obama discusses how “if there is a child on the south side of chicago that can’t read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child”. He then goes on to repeat that structure with Senior citizens and Arab Americans before stating “E Pluribus Unum, Out of many, one.” This structure makes every american in the audience feel not only connected to the problems that Obama has stated affects him but also connects every member of the DNC audience together under one country. By ending the series of parallel structure with the nations motto, Obama was able to effectively unite the members of the audience to desire a change. This desire in turn motivates people to make a change, thus, it effectively works within Obama's rallying purpose. In the same fashion, Obama connects his audience through parallel structure to the rest of the country stating “there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.” This usage of parallel structure breaks down societal barriers within the nation and causes the audience to feel united and patriotic towards the initiative Obama is imposing. By doing this Obama effectively gets his audience to stand united behind his purpose of getting John Kerry