Rhetorical Analysis Of George W. Bush's Speech

When George W. Bush was elected to be President, America was in the midst of a new era. The age of Technology and social media freedom had begun. The problem with the new era of Social media was it opened up to a whole new idea of criticism and or complementing. George W. Bush was more of an old school president whereas when people started to say things on social media he didn’t know how to handle it. President Bush wanted to change the image of America and make it the “American Dream’ but social media brought up many challenges. Many people disagreed with the outlook of Bush’s ideas and his inaugural speech didn’t help. For the point that George W.Bush tried to get across his speech wasn’t much of a help towards that. Although his speech wasn’t the most effective out of the presidents inaugural speeches there still were some appealing uses of Rhetorical strategies.
He covered the idea of “We” as Americans are one person and “we have a place, all of us, in a long story.” Bush refers to the American history and it’s identity as a united country with One history. Later on in his speech he rejuvenates the same topic of unity when he says “I know this is in our reach”. Here too he refers to the significance of unity. Bush wants to accomplish the goal of unity, justice, and make America the land of opportunities like it used to be. Bush uses the word “Our” to signify the unity that he believes Americans should have and with that unity America can once again achieve