President Obama’s Last State of the Union
In President Barack Obama’s last State of the Union speech is one of the most influential and admired speeches of the 20th century. Obama focuses primarily on not just the coming year, but about the coming decades. Obama has mass appeal as a public speaker that uses three public-speaking techniques to captivate his audiences. He uses a number of rhetorical devices in his speech, but three techniques in particular, seem consistent across his speech; he uses transcendence by using concrete and tangible language, repetition to clearly emphasize one idea and make it memorable, and he uses his voice effectively. When speaking, Obama slows down his speech, lowers his volume, and pauses for impact. At other times he speeds up his pace and raises the volume of his voice to underscore a key sentence.
Obama hits all the right rhetorical notes. In his opening speech, he talks about the need for criminal …show more content…
The president also referred to “an unemployment rate cut in half.” He also cherry-picked when he spoke of manufacturing jobs. The President states, “That’s just part of a manufacturing surge that’s created nearly 900,000 new jobs in the past six years.” The gain was 878,000 exact, measured from the low point in his presidency. President Obama again credit the Affordable Care Act for slow growth in health care inflation that economist have pinned largely on the economy, and that started before the ACA was even passed.
President Obama has long been silver-tongued. He is, without doubt, one of American history’s great orators. The ongoing frustration of his presidency has been that, too often, the progressive rhetoric has soared over a political landscape scarred by trench warfare and an economy that continues not to deliver basic security to tens of millions of men, women, and
In President Barack Obama’s last State of the Union speech is one of the most influential and admired speeches of the 20th century. Obama focuses primarily on not just the coming year, but about the coming decades. Obama has mass appeal as a public speaker that uses three public-speaking techniques to captivate his audiences. He uses a number of rhetorical devices in his speech, but three techniques in particular, seem consistent across his speech; he uses transcendence by using concrete and tangible language, repetition to clearly emphasize one idea and make it memorable, and he uses his voice effectively. When speaking, Obama slows down his speech, lowers his volume, and pauses for impact. At other times he speeds up his pace and raises the volume of his voice to underscore a key sentence.
Obama hits all the right rhetorical notes. In his opening speech, he talks about the need for criminal …show more content…
The president also referred to “an unemployment rate cut in half.” He also cherry-picked when he spoke of manufacturing jobs. The President states, “That’s just part of a manufacturing surge that’s created nearly 900,000 new jobs in the past six years.” The gain was 878,000 exact, measured from the low point in his presidency. President Obama again credit the Affordable Care Act for slow growth in health care inflation that economist have pinned largely on the economy, and that started before the ACA was even passed.
President Obama has long been silver-tongued. He is, without doubt, one of American history’s great orators. The ongoing frustration of his presidency has been that, too often, the progressive rhetoric has soared over a political landscape scarred by trench warfare and an economy that continues not to deliver basic security to tens of millions of men, women, and