2008 Concession and Victory Speech

For Obama's Victory speech he does an amazing job at really drawing people into the speech with his confidence and the way he presents himself infront of the crowd. The use of diction that he uses to really brnig across the strength of America and how all things are possible in America. At the beginning of the speech he really discusses how the people of America are important and how they were abe to change and bring across unity of America. He empasizes how America is one and not seperated even in an election. Obama does continue to use his slogan change in his speech to make the promise that he made through his campaign still relevent now after being elected. Obama also, thanked his running mate, his wife and all his supporters. Obama talks about how the change that he promised will be hard and he can not gaurantee a sudden change. It will talk time and he really puts it in true life and time perspective. I imagine to save himself if the promises that he made during his campaign do not happen right away. To save himself if they take time to happen and really work for the United sates. Obama also uses famous quotes like "government for the people and by the people" To make it have a strong and powerful punch to it. Also, the use of repetition like in his thank you section where he is talkg about how his supporters "drew strnghth" in his campaign. To show that the people of the united states is his strength and his rock. Also, the use of "yes we can" at the end of the speech really impacts that we as a people of the united states can do everything. We can do everything together. All in all obama did a great speech and through his diction, repetition, and quotes he made the point he wanted to come across come across perfectly.
I like that in McCain's concession speech he is very generous and very respectful. Especially when he is praising Obama and when he says he is recognizing the importance of the election. I also do like the McCain is respectful and askes his supporters to stop booing when Obama's name is mentioned. He does make his speech very respectful again and is a very good sport about not becoming the president. I do appluad him by admitting that there are differences and not sugar coating that he is going ot back everything up that Obama likes but instead he is willing to help and put input in for Obama to listen to. I like that even though you can tell that McCain is upst by his voice, since he sounds like he is going to cry, he stays strong and positive. Out of the three concession speeches I have reviewed latley McCain is the best at being the best sport and really staying positive during his concession speech. McCain does a great job at the end of his speech in using the sentence where we are americans and how we never surrendor. Putting in an illusion to the army and strength, which I feel people knew MCain for. All in all I thought MCain had a very good speech also.

Concession Speech by John Kerry

Kerry's concession speech was a very gracious and thank full speech. Kerry did express his frustration that he will not be the next president in the beginning. Especially, in the ways that the vote is calculated through a legal process and not by the voters. He apologizes to his supporters for not being able to represent his supporters and for not winning. He emphasizes later that his party will continue to "fight" for what they believe in and that he will continue to "fight" for what they believe in. The word choice, fight, that Kerry used at the beginning of every sentence in this section makes the readers and listeners of this speech believe that after this speech even after losing for the president Kerry can be trusted to continue to work on the ideas that he built his campaign off of. This helps Kerry in his career after the elections because if he does decide to run for any other position after his seat in the senate ran out then he could still have a strong democratic base and supporters. He sets himself up with this enlightening and encouraging section to keep up his supporters moral to help him later in his career and to not really burn any bridges. He also sets himself up for success at the beginning when he admits that there was not way that he was going to win based off Ohio but he encourages his party to support Bush and not allow the country to be split due to his loss. Kerry basically tells the American people to support and back Bush because we are America and we are stronger together. He tells them not to hold a grudge because of the loss. This also keeps Kerry from burning any bridges that could hurt him in his career if he so chooses to continue in politics. Kerry is very gracious and positive in all his diction through out this speech keeping an uplifting and positive mood. He did very well not to come off as too disappointed after the beginning section. Kerry was able through diction and how he presented himself in his voice and appearances to make the situation into a positive one. Also, a majority of his speech was focus don thanking his supporters. There was a huge chunk where he named certain supporters that he meet and thanked them by name. Also, he keep mentioning how much much he appreciated everything that they did for him. Once, again trying to continue that strong supporter base that, I believe, was his goal the whole speech. Kerry did do an very good job with his word choices to make his speech come off as gracious and thankful even if he was disappointed and I think that was the angle he was aiming for.