Inauguration Arguments

As President Obama was introduced, the already roaring crowd went ecstatic with praise and chanted 'O-bam-a' over and over again with a tone of excitement and joy. The live coverage captured a strongly emotional event in our nation. Before his speech, Obama took the Presidential Oath which instilled a sense of ethical credibility upon the crowd. Obama began his inaugural speech with an argument to explore and define our history, our roots in our nation's founding fathers and documents and what they stood for. He briefly mentioned the past 44 Americans who lead the nation through good and bad times. He moved up from the past to the present times and how we have all gone astray from our original precedents and standards we set long ago. He then informed us of our future plans and made a solemn promise that our needs will be met. He spoke with a heavily reassuring tone in order to plant an emotional and logical feeling inside of the community. 

He proposed that we, as a community, take responsibility for the nation's present turmoil and not place blame solely on a few individuals in power. He argued that we all need to make decisions as a whole community. Decisions have not been made in the past, and procrastination has made things worse. Obama reinstated the need for choices being made in order for the most logical and greater good to result. 

The basis for his entire speech was an argument of fact about what kind of state our country is in and the crises of the economy and the war abroad. He evaluated our problems and argued in attempt to convince our nation that, with him as the new leader, we will repair our broken country. 

He spoke with rises and falls in his inflection and it was extremely predictable when the crowd was about to go wild for him. Each time, you could pinpoint the sentence that would end in a loud cheer based on the emotion he buried within his words. He chose logical topics that concern us all and did not speak above the heads of his audience; he spoke as one of us. It seemed he was aiming to capture a sense of two-sided empathy between the audience and himself. Even to the end of his speech, he held the audience's emotions and attention until the cheered him off the stage and for who-knows how long after the speech ended.