奥巴马演讲特色

Analysis of Obama's Health Care Address Obama is a talented speaker with a voice admired by other statesmen. He looks so charming when speaking that every listener is absorbed in his speech. Those words coming out of his mouse build up a first-class atmosphere, making audience extremely zealous.
Unlike Bush, Obama can write himself and come up with proposals which are based on his own thinking. For that reason, Obama’s speech let s us feel natural and genuine. With his own ideas in the speech, Obama speaks confidently and profoundly in any kind of ceremony. Unlike Clinton, though both of them are eloquent, Obama seems more credible, honest and frank. This speech makes hundreds of Democrats, young and old, applaud repeatedly.
The cadence of Obama’s speech chan ges according to the things he speaks, leading our emotions go with him. Even when speaking to thousands of people, he has the capability to give you a feeling that he is talking to you face to face.
In this speech, we can find some typical features of Ob ama’s speech. The purpose is delivered at the very beginning. “We did not come here just to clean up crisis, we came here to build a further” not in direct words, but more acceptable sentences. This makes me think up some of the authorities in China who talk about the achievements first, then comes to the real topic which confuses the audience.
Obama uses short stories or examples to make his speech more persuading. “One man from Illinois lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found that he hadn't reported gallstones that he didn't even know about. They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it. Another woman from Texas was about to get a double mastectomy when her insurance company canceled her policy because she forgot t o declare a case of acne.” Those two examples successfully declare that insurance is so important to people’s life. People suffer a lot or even lose their lives because of insurance denying. This method prevents people from considering his speech as long and empty as litany.
Obama also makes good use of parallelism. Speeches aim to appeal to people, persuade people and win support from them. So sublimations are necessary in a successful speech. “We are the only advanced democracy on Earth – the only wealthy nation – that allows such hardships for millions of its people.” “Now is the season for action. Now is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together, and show the American people that we can still do what we were sent here to do. Now is the time to deliver on health care.”Obama skillfully uses parallelism to push the atmosphere to a high point, getting people deeply touched. Many American scholars believe that Obama is not speaking, he is launching a campaign.
Obama’s speech can always reflect his personality. “This was a good
idea when Senator John McCain proposed it in the campaign, it’s a good idea now, and we should all embrace it.” Though they two were competitors during the campaign, Obama still respects him, has a profound respect for some of his good ideas. What is more, he never hesitates to say it in public. That is the authority we need.
In terms of the whole speech, we can easily find out that Obama tend to use simple words to deliver his ideas. Even for me, an English learner can catch the main idea of this speech. That is why Obama gain a lot of support from elder citizens in both his campaign and later work.
I would like to quote a sentence similar to the one often used in Obama’s speech to end my composition, “May God bless us,and may God bless Obama.”
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