First Night Of The Convention Speech Analysis
VII. Impact of Speeches
The impact of the 2016 DNC speech was left on the first night of the convention. According to Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post (2016), there were more than 28 hours of live programming over the four days of the Democratic National Convention. Even though, the first lady’s speech came on the first night of the convention, “it held the championship belt against all other for the next three days’’ (Cillizza, 2016). She stood alone amongst the best of the politicians in the Democratic Party as the one who excelled the brightest which left her one question to answer. What does the first lady want to do next? Is it in the elected office or outside?
There were several supporters out there for the first lady. According to a recent Gallup poll, she has a favorable rating of 64 percent of popularity compared to President Obama and President-elect Trump. “Hours after Donald Trump was elected president, Hillary Clinton …show more content…
supporters who were ready for the first female president had already set their eyes on another powerful figure to represent women: First Lady Michelle Obama” (Earl, 2016). Michelle Obama laughs off the question of her running in 2020 and brings the focus back to the future of our children.
VIII. Why did Obama pick Clinton to support?
After talking about her daughters growing from bubbly little girls to poses young women, first lady Obama said that words matter to all the boys and girls across the world. The main importance is who will have the power to shape the children of America. The first lady trust Hillary Clinton to do so because she has seen Clinton’s lifelong devotion to children. Listing the success of Hillary and how she never takes the easy way out.
IX. Close Textual Analysis:
As we studied close textual Analysis during this course, we learned that there are four principles that must be taken into account. These four principles will help us analyze the historical nature of the texts that Michelle Obama has said whether it relates to her speeches from eight years ago or that of four years ago.
The first principle talks about the rhetorical texts have a site of symbolic action. In terms of Michelle Obama’s speech, we can ask what it does and how. We know that she talked about her daughters and Hillary Clinton, but how do they relate in terms of criticism.
The second principle talks about form and content not being divorced. It was very obvious in the first lady’s speech that she was not trying to separate what she say from the way it was said. Her main focus was on the future for the young men and women in America.
The third principle talks about how text informs context and context informs text. In the speech, Obama discussed some pieces from her previous texts at the Democratic National Convention by making the audiences remember what she said about her husband, President Obama.
The fourth principle talks about how the texts exhibit artistic density. Michelle Obama told the story of her daughters growing up with artistic value. The way she told it was as if she wanted the audience to visualize what she was saying and to image what the future of young women could be like with Hillary Clinton as president.
This piece of text from Michelle Obama works well with what she was trying to accomplish as the rhetor. It was very clear at what her target audience was when she delivered the speech at the Convention.
X. Rhetorical Method:
Talking about the power of a women with such statute as Hillary Clinton and how she can make a difference in the future of our daughters lives when she could became the next President of the United States. I have decided to use Feminist Criticism as my rhetoric method relating to the speeches of the first lady. I will be comparing the text from the speeches in 2008 and 2012 at the Democratic National Convention to help support why I chose this method. Those speeches were the start of everything inspirational about the Obama family. Since the start of Barack Obama’s presidency, he and the first lady have been out to explain the true American dream. Michelle Obama told the delegates at the Democratic National Convention in 2008 that she and President Obama were raised with so many of the same values.
“… that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond, that you do what you say you’re going to do, that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.”
That phrase from the 2008 DNC has been what the Obama’s have been speaking of the last eight years. That is the motto that Michelle has implemented into her daughters as well. Michelle Obama has truly redefined what feminism is. Since President Obama’s first day in office, first lady has been making an impact with the movement of a better future for women.
This movement has altered both the political and social landscape. As a part of the speech from the Democratic National Convention in 2008, Michelle Obama discussed the values she shares with President Obama.
“Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values and to past them on to the next generation because we want our children and all children in this nation to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.” – WASHINGTON POST 2008
The first lady has lived by those words since the first day that they have been in the oval office. She is always looking forward to help her daughters achieve their dreams and encourages that many other young women do the same.
With her recent speech from this year’s Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama talks a lot about how her daughters are the hearts of their hearts and the center of their world. She shares the story of her daughters first day of school in Washington as the President’s daughters. She is expressing through her speech how powerful a woman in power can actually be as a mother to children. The way she explains how she tries to guide and protect her daughters through the challenges of the unusual spotlight that comes with being in the White House shows that woman are just as capable of being leaders as man are.
The extra support for Hillary Clinton that was given by the first lady in the speech.
The speech also gave women nationwide the best present they could have wished for and that was a master class in how to stand up for a woman in public.
The 2016 Democratic National Convention was probably the most rhetorical of them all, but it was more than just a rhetorical achievement, Obama invoked the decades-old sexist criticisms. She came to the defense of Hillary Clinton by saying that Clinton will not only challenge the criticism, but she will turn them into some of her most impressive authorizations for president yet.
In the opening of the speech, Obama built a theme that the Clinton operation needed to push because Trump was setting bad examples for our children. “With every word, we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models….” As a mother, you would not want your children hearing the bad things that were being said about woman from an outrageous
man.
At one point in the speech, Obama retreated the criticism of Clinton by saying that she is a “mom” while emphasizing its essential weakness. That weakness was to identify that women shouldn’t be the only one that deals with care-giving, men have a crucial part in it. Feminism is not just the radical notion that women are people, but that women can be leaders too. The major concern has to do with the male domination, male identification, and male centeredness. Male domination states that men occupy most positions of authority. They may occupy the most positions, but one day there will be a term where the woman has the most important position of authority and that is the President of the United States of America. Cultural values are based on maleness and masculinity, but femaleness is the value that connects to the young children and that parents of those children because they are really the future. Male centeredness tells us that our attention is mostly focused on men, but behind very great men is a much more powerful women.
The impact of the 2016 DNC speech was left on the first night of the convention. According to Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post (2016), there were more than 28 hours of live programming over the four days of the Democratic National Convention. Even though, the first lady’s speech came on the first night of the convention, “it held the championship belt against all other for the next three days’’ (Cillizza, 2016). She stood alone amongst the best of the politicians in the Democratic Party as the one who excelled the brightest which left her one question to answer. What does the first lady want to do next? Is it in the elected office or outside?
There were several supporters out there for the first lady. According to a recent Gallup poll, she has a favorable rating of 64 percent of popularity compared to President Obama and President-elect Trump. “Hours after Donald Trump was elected president, Hillary Clinton …show more content…
supporters who were ready for the first female president had already set their eyes on another powerful figure to represent women: First Lady Michelle Obama” (Earl, 2016). Michelle Obama laughs off the question of her running in 2020 and brings the focus back to the future of our children.
VIII. Why did Obama pick Clinton to support?
After talking about her daughters growing from bubbly little girls to poses young women, first lady Obama said that words matter to all the boys and girls across the world. The main importance is who will have the power to shape the children of America. The first lady trust Hillary Clinton to do so because she has seen Clinton’s lifelong devotion to children. Listing the success of Hillary and how she never takes the easy way out.
IX. Close Textual Analysis:
As we studied close textual Analysis during this course, we learned that there are four principles that must be taken into account. These four principles will help us analyze the historical nature of the texts that Michelle Obama has said whether it relates to her speeches from eight years ago or that of four years ago.
The first principle talks about the rhetorical texts have a site of symbolic action. In terms of Michelle Obama’s speech, we can ask what it does and how. We know that she talked about her daughters and Hillary Clinton, but how do they relate in terms of criticism.
The second principle talks about form and content not being divorced. It was very obvious in the first lady’s speech that she was not trying to separate what she say from the way it was said. Her main focus was on the future for the young men and women in America.
The third principle talks about how text informs context and context informs text. In the speech, Obama discussed some pieces from her previous texts at the Democratic National Convention by making the audiences remember what she said about her husband, President Obama.
The fourth principle talks about how the texts exhibit artistic density. Michelle Obama told the story of her daughters growing up with artistic value. The way she told it was as if she wanted the audience to visualize what she was saying and to image what the future of young women could be like with Hillary Clinton as president.
This piece of text from Michelle Obama works well with what she was trying to accomplish as the rhetor. It was very clear at what her target audience was when she delivered the speech at the Convention.
X. Rhetorical Method:
Talking about the power of a women with such statute as Hillary Clinton and how she can make a difference in the future of our daughters lives when she could became the next President of the United States. I have decided to use Feminist Criticism as my rhetoric method relating to the speeches of the first lady. I will be comparing the text from the speeches in 2008 and 2012 at the Democratic National Convention to help support why I chose this method. Those speeches were the start of everything inspirational about the Obama family. Since the start of Barack Obama’s presidency, he and the first lady have been out to explain the true American dream. Michelle Obama told the delegates at the Democratic National Convention in 2008 that she and President Obama were raised with so many of the same values.
“… that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond, that you do what you say you’re going to do, that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.”
That phrase from the 2008 DNC has been what the Obama’s have been speaking of the last eight years. That is the motto that Michelle has implemented into her daughters as well. Michelle Obama has truly redefined what feminism is. Since President Obama’s first day in office, first lady has been making an impact with the movement of a better future for women.
This movement has altered both the political and social landscape. As a part of the speech from the Democratic National Convention in 2008, Michelle Obama discussed the values she shares with President Obama.
“Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values and to past them on to the next generation because we want our children and all children in this nation to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.” – WASHINGTON POST 2008
The first lady has lived by those words since the first day that they have been in the oval office. She is always looking forward to help her daughters achieve their dreams and encourages that many other young women do the same.
With her recent speech from this year’s Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama talks a lot about how her daughters are the hearts of their hearts and the center of their world. She shares the story of her daughters first day of school in Washington as the President’s daughters. She is expressing through her speech how powerful a woman in power can actually be as a mother to children. The way she explains how she tries to guide and protect her daughters through the challenges of the unusual spotlight that comes with being in the White House shows that woman are just as capable of being leaders as man are.
The extra support for Hillary Clinton that was given by the first lady in the speech.
The speech also gave women nationwide the best present they could have wished for and that was a master class in how to stand up for a woman in public.
The 2016 Democratic National Convention was probably the most rhetorical of them all, but it was more than just a rhetorical achievement, Obama invoked the decades-old sexist criticisms. She came to the defense of Hillary Clinton by saying that Clinton will not only challenge the criticism, but she will turn them into some of her most impressive authorizations for president yet.
In the opening of the speech, Obama built a theme that the Clinton operation needed to push because Trump was setting bad examples for our children. “With every word, we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models….” As a mother, you would not want your children hearing the bad things that were being said about woman from an outrageous
man.
At one point in the speech, Obama retreated the criticism of Clinton by saying that she is a “mom” while emphasizing its essential weakness. That weakness was to identify that women shouldn’t be the only one that deals with care-giving, men have a crucial part in it. Feminism is not just the radical notion that women are people, but that women can be leaders too. The major concern has to do with the male domination, male identification, and male centeredness. Male domination states that men occupy most positions of authority. They may occupy the most positions, but one day there will be a term where the woman has the most important position of authority and that is the President of the United States of America. Cultural values are based on maleness and masculinity, but femaleness is the value that connects to the young children and that parents of those children because they are really the future. Male centeredness tells us that our attention is mostly focused on men, but behind very great men is a much more powerful women.