Contrast of presidential *campaign positions of McCain and Obama. From year to year, presidential elections face many controversial problems that involve candidates’ personality and ideas, and they have a great influence on voters’ decisions. Many journalists and politicians express their feelings about upcoming presidential elections in provocative articles, revealing accomplishments of one and limitations of another, but the only right way to find out who our candidates are, and what are their real intentions, is to let them turn their ideas into life. Just remember the words of President George Bush during the 2000 campaign about building a nation. His position was very clear and stated that it is none of the government’s business, and what do we see now? The United States is currently involved in nation building in Iraq in a scale unseen since World War ll. It’s important to know what our politicians think about present situation in the country. Let’s discuss our candidates’ points of view to the major challenges facing America today to choose one who responds to present needs of American people. Another important question that needs to be discussed is economics, especially taxation policy. Senator Obama does not say many about taxation. His idea is to “cut income taxes by $1,000 for working families to offset the payroll tax they pay”, and to create “Making Work Pay” tax credit, where $500 per person and $1000 per working family are supposed to cover income tax expenses for 10 million people (Obama, Barack Obama|Change We Can Believe In|Economy, 2008). Obama is also going to simplify tax fillings, by providing ready forms with information collected from banks and employers. In contrast to Obama, John McCain has a width rang...
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...ugh there have been very serious reasons to wage this war, millions of Americans would have never support it, and I would be one of them. This fact makes me to take Mr. Obama’s side. Besides, as a young man, I believe in future of new and progressive technologies. I believe that once they will have grate positive influence on our society as, for example, digital technologies have had for the last 30 years, and I can find support of that in Senator’s Obama ideas. Finally Barack Obama finished his speech in Ohio saying that McCain represents “the politics of yesterday," while he promised that he represents "the party of tomorrow” (More Obama vs McCain - First Read - msnbc.com, 2008). And I tend to believe him. Work Cited (Obama, Barack Obama|Change We Can Believe In|Seniors, 2008) (McCain J. , McCain Tax Cut Plan, 2008) (McCain J. , Strategy for Victory in Iraq, 2008)
This has been one of the most fascinating political seasons in recent history. The level of discourse and potential scandals on both sides has increased my attention level. Rather you support either of these candidates, both the fringe candidates from the left and the right both have struck a chord with a lot of people. Whether either of them wins their party’s nomination and becomes the president is still left to be decided. Mainstream political pundits and major social institutions have either condemned or flatly said that some of these candidates’ proposals are not feasible, but to the electorate that doesn’t seem to matter.
Rick Santorum’s departure heralded the beginning of the general election. Mitt Romney, with the backing of the Republican establishment, and the growing support of the base, can now devote his resources for a one on one showdown against President Barack Obama. Recent polls indicate that he is behind by only a few points in a head to head match-up against the President. High employment rate, skyrocketing gas prices, ballooning national debt, and an exhausting war in Afghanistan created animosity against the President’s administration. Therefore, the President must decisively address these issues in the months ahead to ensure reelection. He must pull the jobless rate below 8%, and lower the price of fuel. The President must not prolong the war in Afghanistan and must not escalate tension with Iran. In essence, a President seeking reelection will need to embody Niccolo Machiavelli’s acumen and Desiderius Erasmus’ deferential image. Now, I will outline what the President must do to handily beat Romney.
To hold up his claim of such a policy, he uses three supports during the speech. The first support is that “if we do not defeat these enemies now, we will leave our children to face a Middle East overrun by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons.” To back up such an idea, he uses two backings. The first backing is “if we pull out. they (the terrorists) will not leave us alone”.
In which philosophical form of government does Barack Obama believe? That has been one of the on-going debates since he burst upon the national political scene a scant four years ago.
A party’s platform is its official statement of beliefs and values. These platforms established from the view of a party such as Republic Party and Democrat Party. They have their own platforms to create their views on an issue. However, if the Democrat Party has their notions, Republican Party is not inherently related based on their true definitions. There are some similarities and differences between Republican Party and Democrat Party.
In today's day in age, the Democratic and Republican parties seem to be completely diverse. These two parties have completely opposing views on topics ranging from social issues, health care, tax policy, labor and free trade, foreign policy, crime and capital punishment, energy and environmental issues, and even education. Once upon a time however, these two groups were not as polarized as they have become. Both were once a single party known as the Democratic-Republican Party, formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791. This sole party favored the idea of a decentralized, democratic government. They despised the idea of the U.S government becoming anything similar to England's monarchy system at the time. They also supported states’ rights as well as the literal and strict interpretation of the U.S Constitution. The group's purpose was to stand against the Federalists who were
In the United States we are divided by the left and right side on the political spectrum; even further divided into political parties such as Republicans, on the right, and Democrats, on the left side. These two political parties show philosophical differences through their viewpoints on major topics such as the economy, separation of church and state, abortion, and gun control.
The campaign advertisement under review was from the 2012 United States senatorial race in Rhode Island. The advertisement features the republican senate aspirant Barry Hinckley. His main opponent was democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse. The key campaign disputes being advocated by the contestants was the immigration issues with each airing their views. Other issues and topics of campaign were such as abortion as a woman’s unrestricted right where Barry’s campaign was in favor ("Immigration: Rhode Island Political Leaders' views."). Other topics that Barry’s campaign favored were such as the acquiescence of same sex matrimonies, the privatization of societal security, the ability for families to guarantee for school choices and the consummate right for individuals to own firepower. Topics of campaign that Barry’s campaign detested and strongly opposed were such as the development of the Obama-care and the setting up of greater taxes and duties on the wealthy individuals. While Barry Hinckley’s stand was that individuals that broke into America illegitimately should not be rewarded, Sheldon Whitehouse’s campaign held that there should exist a path to citizenship into the United States after unlawful foreigners and aliens have paid specified dues. ("Immigration: Rhode Island Political Leaders' views.") Sheldon’s campaign also held that immigrants ought to be capable of attaining their dream of residency and consequently lawful citizenship.
Democratic Illinois Senate representative Barack Obama as well as Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger both gave their speeches in 2004 at their political party’s convention. Although Barack Obama and Schwarzenegger each took a different approach as well as emphasized different ideas, both shared a distinctive similarity in the structure of their speeches. Similar rhetorical strategies are found due to their similarity in the structure of their speeches. These similar rhetorical strategies include metaphors and imageries. If both speeches are structurally similar, what sets them apart? The similarity in the structure of their speeches isn’t as noticeable as you’d expect because of their different tone as well as delivery.
President Barack H. Obama has been always using rhetorical strategies in his political speeches. He used these strategies to present important points and views of his in front of public. Delivering points and views properly and logically got him to be the president in the first place. President Obama used mostly ethos and pathos, yet some logos to deliver his inaugural and the state of union speeches. Being that, he was able to reach the audience emotionally and make the speech flow efficiently while he preserved his credibility. Each speech has own audience that differs from the other. In the inaugural speech the audience was the public and therefor the speech was short and used short sentences that are easy to understand. On the other hand, the state of union speech’s audience was mostly the congers members and therefore the language was more specific and filled with political terminology. Both speeches will be discussed upon context and using ethos, pathos and logos consecutively.
Political parties, like interest groups, are organized groups that effort to influence the government by electing their associates to important government offices. The first party system appeared in the 1970s and pitted the federalist beside the Jeffersonian Republican. Over the years, the federalists progressively weakened and disappeared altogether after the pro-British sympathies of some Federalist leaders for the duration of the War of 1812 led to charges of betrayal against the party. From the collapse of the federalist until 1830s, American had only one political party, the Jeffersonian Republicans, who gradually came to be known as the Democrats. There was strong factional conflict within the Democratic Party, principally between the
In the year 1789, the first presidential election took place under the new constitution. The changes between then and now are too many to count. There have been amendments to the constitution, technology has enhanced, communication is better, strategies have grown and the world is a different place. In every election, each president had his or her own strengths and weaknesses of their time. In the presidential election of 2012 between Obama and Romney, many economic and personal characteristics held importance on Election Day. In this research paper, I will look at the issues that voters had and discuss how each candidate addressed them. I will also share other important information that contributed to the outcome of the election.
Obama goes on to say “We cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together.” He believes that this is the time to change, and a new generation governed by racial minorities. Obama support these claims by reiterating his own beliefs and those of the American nation. “I would not be running for President...
Next, he uses anaphora which I think hit harder in the final paragraph. God bless America being a well known phrase and him repeating solidifies his passion in patriotism. Then, he uses repetition when he talks about the “land of” specific American values and history. He establishes a unity of sorts and attempts to inspire patriotism. Next, he uses Personification by telling of a time he attended George H W Bush’s own award speech. By doing this, he backs his own sense of nationalism when he talks about what Bush said and also quotes him. Additionally, he may or may or not have meant this, but he concludes his speech nearly the same way: “May god bless.” He goes on to use Alliteration with “boisterous, brawling, beautiful, bountiful, and brave. I think he just said these to sound inspiring, and pleasing to the ear. McCains Memorable Phrase, “We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil,” was quite effective in the sense of summarizing his entire point of what America is and what it should be. Further, he uses an Analogy to push the point of upholding American values at home and abroad. Lastly, McCain uses conversational style, purposeful or not, to show that he is human and to show his humbleness. Overall, I think senator McCain was extremely effective in his persuasive message and I interpreted the speech as he does what he thinks is best while staying true to American values, and is happy to continue to
There has been a lot of fuss over the issue of illegal immigration. It truly is one of America’s biggest problems, in my opinion. This has been an issue in our country for years and it is about time we resolve the issue. The two of our 2016 candidates had very different views on the situation and both felt very strongly about it.