lane-blocking SUV’s and Hummers and V-12 pickup trucks, burning their wasteful, selfish, 40-gallon tanks of gas, and I can dwell on the fact that the patriotic or religious bumper-stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles, driven by the ugliest [responding here to loud applause]
This is a form of satire because hes talking down on the people with big trucks.
About MY hungriness and MY fatigue and MY desire to just get home, and it’s going to seem for all the world like everybody else is just in my way. And who are all these people in my way?
So he is saying that this is pretty much life for everybody
et cetera et cetera.
Consonance repeating the same word twice in a row.
By
this is a another anecdote because its telling the story of life as a college gradute.
clichés
repetitions he uses the word cliche a lot.
Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education–least in my own case–is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualise stuff, to get lost in abstract argument inside my head, instead of simply paying attention to what is going on right in front of me, paying attention to what is going on inside me.
He saying that with a higher education he now questions himself a lot more and feels like he now cant make a simple decisions anymore
Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of
Here is his opinion of a topic that may be controversial.
There are these two guys sitting together in a bar in the remote Alaskan wilderness. One of the guys is religious, the other is an atheist, and the two are arguing about the existence of God with that special intensity that comes after about the fourth beer. And the atheist says: “Look, it’s not like I don’t have actual reasons for not believing in God. It’s not like I haven’t ever experimented with the whole God and prayer thing. Just last month I got caught away from the camp in that terrible blizzard, and I was totally lost and I couldn’t see a thing, and it was 50 below, and so I tried it: I fell to my knees in the snow and cried out ‘Oh, God, if there is a God, I’m lost in this blizzard, and I’m gonna die if you don’t help me.’” And now, in the bar, the religious guy looks at the atheist all puzzled. “Well then you must believe now,” he says, “After all, here you are, alive.” The atheist just rolls his eyes. “No, man, all that was was a couple Eskimos happened to come wandering by and showed me the way back to camp.”
this an another Ancedote because hes a telling a story abot to guys
I’m supposed to talk about your liberal arts education’s meaning, to try to explain why the degree you are about to receive has actual human value instead of just a material payoff.
I think he is being a little sarcastic saying that their degrees arent write offs.
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”
This an anecdote because hes telling a story about two fish.
“This is water.” “This is water.
Repetion
awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:
So being aware of our surroundings and others in also key to life
They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that’s what you’re doing.
you get used to day to day life.
This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.
Hes saying you get to make the choices in your life and live it how you want.
I looked into Mr. Putin’s eyes, and I saw three letters, a “K,” a “G,” and a “B.” And their aggression in Georgia is not acceptable behavior.
Showing the American people that Russia is not our friend.
And part of what we need to do, what the next president has to do — and this is part of our judgment, this is part of how we’re going to keep America safe — is to — to send a message to the world that we are going to invest in issues like education, we are going to invest in issues that — that relate to how ordinary people are able to live out their dreams. And that is something that I’m going to be committed to as president of the United States.
Conclusion Obamas final statement before the end of the debate.
I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.
Conclusion McCain final statement before the debate ends.
This is why the issue of nuclear proliferation is so important. It is the — the biggest threat to the United States is a terrorist getting their hands on nuclear weapons.
Showing the American people why we should continue our presence in Iraq.
And the biggest threat that we face right now is not a nuclear missile coming over the skies.
Imagery of a nuclear missile coming over giving the American people something to be scared about.
Now we cannot allow a second Holocaust.
Imagery/Nostalgia saying we can not allow a second holocaust.
“I will — I will wear his bracelet with honor.”
Eulogy because he is wearing a bracelet for someone whos passed away in the military.
I’m afraid Senator Obama doesn’t understand the difference between a tactic and a strategy. But the important — I’d like to tell you, two Fourths of July ago I was in Baghdad. General Petraeus invited Senator Lindsey Graham and me to attend a ceremony where 688 brave young Americans, whose enlistment had expired, were reenlisting to stay and fight for Iraqi freedom and American free
Satire saying Obama doesn't know the difference between tacit and strategy.
Senator Obama is the chairperson of a committee that oversights NATO that’s in Afghanistan. To this day, he has never had a hearing.
Satire saying Obama has never held a meeting as head of an organzation.
It’s well-known that I have not been elected Miss Congeniality in the United States Senate nor with the administration
He tries to make a joke to lighten up the coversation.
The problem with a spending freeze is you’re using a hatchet where you need a scalpel
Imagery showing that spending freeze is to rough and the economy should be treated more gentle.
The third thing we have to do is we’ve got to make sure that we’re competing in education. We’ve got to invest in science and technology. China had a space launch and a space walk. We’ve got to make sure that our children are keeping pace in math and in science.
Obama is creating a scene of competition with China to produce smart kids.
Who fought against wasteful and earmark spending? Who has been the person who has tried to keep spending under control? Who’s the person who has believed that the best thing for America is — is to have a tax system that is fundamentally fair? And I’ve fought to simplify it, and I have proposals to simplify it.
This is satire because he is asking questions that he know ill make Obama look bad if he answers.
Well — well,
Alliteration he repeats the same word twice
But let’s go back to the original point. John, nobody is denying that $18 billion is important. And, absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
He is agreeing with his opponent but saying what he would do different.
And that means that the ordinary American out there who’s collecting a paycheck every day, they’ve got a little extra money to be able to buy a computer for their kid, to fill up on this gas that is killing them.
Connecting to the American families on a budget or could use some extra money.
But I have a fundamental belief in the goodness and strength of the American worker. And the American worker is the most productive, the most innovative. America is still the greatest producer, exporter and importer.
Mccain is idolizing the American Worker.
Are you afraid I couldn’t hear him?
Satire because he is saying Obama is scared and gets the audience to laugh at him
As president of the United States, people are going to be held accountable in my administration. And I promise you that that will happen.
He is speaking as if he is already the president of the United States.
But there’s also the issue of responsibility. You’ve mentioned President Dwight David Eisenhower. President Eisenhower, on the night before the Normandy invasion, went into his room, and he wrote out two letters.
This is nostalgia because they are going back in time.
Because as we’re here tonight in this debate, we are seeing, for the first time in a long time, Republicans and Democrats together, sitting down, trying to work out a solution to this fiscal crisis that we’re in.
He is showing that everyone wants the same thing no matter their party preferane and that for things to go back to normal.
And, Jim, I — I’ve been not feeling too great about a lot of things lately. So have a lot of Americans who are facing challenges. But I’m feeling a little better tonight, and I’ll tell you why.
He is connecting to the American people by saying he does not feel good about how thing have been going in america latley.
Well, thank you, Jim. And thanks to everybody.
Decorum Hes thanking everybody.
And you’re wondering, how’s it going to affect me? How’s it going to affect my job? How’s it going to affect my house? How’s it going to affect my retirement savings or my ability to send my children to college?
He is connecting to the American people by stating some questions they may ask them selves.
Well, thank you very much, Jim, and thanks to the commission and the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, for hosting us tonight.
This is decorum because he thanks the Jim for being the commentator and Hofstra for allowing them to speak at their place.