Once Again, I Learned How to Argue

And with videos!!!

We come to politics once again when we understand that all politicians want something out of you.  Every person wants to get you to do something, if not they wouldn’t be giving you their attention. If the messages you are trying to send to your audience “appeal only to the speaker have a tendency to boomerang”(98).

Of course in the case of politics what they want is your vote. Once they have it they will keep calm and then start doing all the stuff they promised they would do. But if you are in Obamas shoes, you want people to know what you did well in your presidency so they can trust you and vote for you again. In the video he talks about generating more jobs, of course this is beneficial for the audience and the country, people they are generating more jobs. But it is more beneficial to Obama, since he proves he can make the economy work, he puts peoples needs which in this case are jobs before what he really wants (a vote) or also, actually generating more jobs.

Disney does both babbling and clichés. They do in their famous cliché “and they live happily ever after.” As children grow up, generally for the girls, the parents want their children to understand that in fact everyone lives “happily ever after” Disney babbles this same phrase in each and everyone of its movies that it finally sticks.

Let’s go back to Obama, in this video clip he uses judo and he made Romney look bad because of what he had or hadn’t said before.

He talks about how he thinks it’s a “mistake” about the healthcare choices that women are making. He says that insurance companies need to provide contraceptive coverage to everybody who is women. He says that Romney objected, that women shouldn’t get contraception in their insurance coverage.

Here Obama does uses “jujitsu and judo”(119) because he uses the terms that Romney had said before and attacked him, he also contrasted with his opinion, he disagreed with Romney so the audience would agree with him and make him look bad.

Here we go, one final video. A pretty geeky one, but I like it! It shows how commonplace words can be applied. These words have “almost no emotional effect”(115). The word standard is used in this video and it shows how there are many ways in which you can employ it.