Throughout the longevity of the well leaded campaign by presidential candidate Barack Obama, all things seemed to be only headed in a positive direction for Obama in this moment of the election. However, running for presidency also includes the actions of family members and friends; but in the case Presidential candidate Obama’s pastor Reverend Wright. Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Pastor of Trinity United Church Of Christ criticized the U.S government by making remarks like It was America’s fault for 9/11”, and also stating that the government criticizes people of color. Presidential candidate Obama and his family going to this reverend's church at the time makes electing Obama as the potential president of America a potentially decision. Although
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Obama attempts to gain his supporter and potential voter’s confidence back in him through the use of diction to bring the truth and disparity of our country. This touches people from all over to influence them in the most positive way possible. Obama quotes William” Faulkner as the beginning of his quote using Diction wrote, “the past isn’t dead and buried (page 4). By saying this Faulkner meant that the past does not go away, in fact it attaches to you unless you choose to move on. Obama bring this quote by William about to his potential voters so they can move on from this small incident and recognize the more important things in the future. Candidate Obama strategic plan in this situation must be to persuade his potential voters to reside back to siding with him. Candidate Obama knows if anything from our country’s past and people, we must learn to move on from the simple mistakes that provoke us from focusing on the bigger picture and potentially dangerous situations we face in the future. Besides just speaking on moving to the future and escaping the past however, Barack Obama creates a connection to the past using the Paradox rhetorical strategy. With a brief part of what he mentioned “brutal legacy of slavery and Jim crow”. Using the Paradox strategy in this case, Barack Obama tries to make his audience fall in the state of guilt and shame speaking on the treatment of his culture and how it is not those citizens fault for their actions all the time. It is the result of different laws like Jim Crow laws and preventions of particular people of accomplishing major thing being the reason why our bad communities in America are the way that they have become. Obama Gains a state of trust and heartfelt examples to recover from his loss from the event that took place with his
Obama attempts to gain his supporter and potential voter’s confidence back in him through the use of diction to bring the truth and disparity of our country. This touches people from all over to influence them in the most positive way possible. Obama quotes William” Faulkner as the beginning of his quote using Diction wrote, “the past isn’t dead and buried (page 4). By saying this Faulkner meant that the past does not go away, in fact it attaches to you unless you choose to move on. Obama bring this quote by William about to his potential voters so they can move on from this small incident and recognize the more important things in the future. Candidate Obama strategic plan in this situation must be to persuade his potential voters to reside back to siding with him. Candidate Obama knows if anything from our country’s past and people, we must learn to move on from the simple mistakes that provoke us from focusing on the bigger picture and potentially dangerous situations we face in the future. Besides just speaking on moving to the future and escaping the past however, Barack Obama creates a connection to the past using the Paradox rhetorical strategy. With a brief part of what he mentioned “brutal legacy of slavery and Jim crow”. Using the Paradox strategy in this case, Barack Obama tries to make his audience fall in the state of guilt and shame speaking on the treatment of his culture and how it is not those citizens fault for their actions all the time. It is the result of different laws like Jim Crow laws and preventions of particular people of accomplishing major thing being the reason why our bad communities in America are the way that they have become. Obama Gains a state of trust and heartfelt examples to recover from his loss from the event that took place with his