For this assignment, I analyzed the YouTube videos between the Democrats Hiliary Clinton and Barack Obama and the Republicans: Ruday Giuliani, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney.
Both parties discuss meaningless subjects! They are not looking at the big picture. Their entire debates surface small topics or subtopics in their campaigns. Why do people always bring up the past? “You said….when you were riding a horse around your barn!” This is just childish behavior.
However, as the video goes on from the Republican debate, they do start talking about the immigration problem. Yes, I realize that it is a huge and complicated problem, but someone needs to address it without putting anyone else down. People feel differently about this subject and the politicians are aware of it. They use their feelings about that topic to persuade their audience. For example, Mayor Ruday Giuliani talked about how he allowed illegal immigrants who were in school the right to stay in school because it would be inhumane to leave them on the side of the street. He also stated that in New York, where he is the mayor, he allowed illegals hospital care because forbiding it would also be inhumane. “…illegals are people, too” (Giuliani) (These show two uses of pathos).
The ethos and logos perspective can be interpreted differently. In my opinion, the candidates do not focus on the ethos as much as the other two rhetorical parts. The logos; it must be heavily used in such debates. Logic has an enormous part in debating. If the candidates do not speak logically, they will (1) get torn-up by the others, and (2) will decrease their chance of getting elected.