Thursday, February 19, 2009

Week 5- Question 2

Consider a well-known speaker, for example, the current President of the United States. What is the speaker's strongest characteristics as a speaker? Is it credibility, attractiveness, power or all three? In what ways could the speaker build ethos in these areas?


President Barak Obama is one of the best speakers I have ever heard. I believe he speaks about the topics and issues really care about. You can tell when he speaks that he cares about the people and has done his homework on all the issues he is fighting for. His strongest characteristic as a speaker is his confidence and knowledge about his topic.

Obama is the type of speaker that has all three (credibility, attractiveness, power). He has the support of the people, the desire to get our nation back to work and back on its feet, and he is using all of his resources to get that in motion. Not a lot of people are blessed to take on such big responsibility and still have the charisma and confidence to get their dreams for a whole nation to come true. Having all three is a power package to have in as a speaker and as a person.

I think that what he is doing is fine and is informing us all about his plans. He is giving us hope. I know there is always room for improvement, but I’m really confident in his ethos in all three.

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