Obama in the house

As I was watching Obama's inaugeral speech, I found that he is quite the convincing politician. Throughout his speech he argues his many different points in which he tries to persuade his audience (the whole nation) to join his side of the issues. Of course he uses the three different types of appeal with ease and makes good points to get his arguments across. The first argument that I noticed he used was an argument about the present. He talks about how America is at war with the terrorists in the middle east. He operates this by saying, "a war against a far reaching network of violence and hate. This appeals to the emotions I would say, because many American families have children or husbands and wives in Iraq, which many of them would like to come home. The next argument he uses is an argument to make decisions. He uses this argument when he is talking about the weakened economy. He says that we have a weak economy because of the failure of some, but the real reason is because of the inability to make hard decisions (which I think he is blaming Bush). This means that he is arguing that he will make these hard decisions over the economy. The third is the argument to convince, which he uses when he is talking about all the problems of that America is facing right now. He lists how all of these problems in the past have not been met, but that they will now be met, now that he is in office. He is arguing to convince that he will fix all these problems. The fourth argument Obama uses is an argument about the past. He claims that the past Americans have worked so hard to establish a country where everyone has a chance to be free and live prosperiously. He also argues that 60 years ago a man of his color would not even be given a thought about the position he is in. He moves on to his fifth type of argument, which is an argument about the future. He says we need to "pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and make America again." He is arguing that America needs to pick up the pace again and put us back on top in the global marketplace. I feel like he uses these arguments very effective and he is a powerful speaker. After watching his speech I felt pretty motivated about him being president (I wasn't too fond of him I, I leaned more towards McCain.) He seems like he knows what he is doing and he is quite the effective arguer. Overall, I felt that his speech was very moving and I think he has a great oppurtunity to turn this country around from where it's going.