DASCHLE > COME ON
I have been reading the web log of Tom Daschle, a Senator from South Dakota and I must say I am not impressed. Being a senator from South Dakota Daschle focuses his topics on the residents of South Dakota and the issues he hopes to reform there. His web log is in the form of a travel journal, which he wrote as he traveled all over South Dakota to meet with the people he calls “South Dakotans”. The major issue Daschle has addressed in his web log is the issue of healthcare.
Daschle makes it quite obvious that he feels the healthcare policy of South Dakota is the major problem the “South Dakotans” are facing. The strength of his argument for healthcare reform is seen in majority through the pathos form of argumentative persuasion. He uses the personal accounts of people he has met on his travel through South Dakota to create his argument.
All the stories he uses are stories of tragedy that are directly related to the lack of healthcare availability and funding. These stories work well to bring emotion and sympathy from the reader, and also bring the ethos form of argumentative persuasion into effect by showing a bond between Daschle and his “South Dakotans”, thus relaying the image of trust to the readers of his web log.
Despite this seemingly effective argument I feel Daschle is lacking in his facts and is using many sources that may or may not be credible to build his argument! He never states any solution he has come up with to fix the problem of healthcare. Instead he uses the reader’s sympathy for the “victims” of his stories to build support for his plan to reform healthcare, while he has yet to state his plans for doing so. Depending on the reader of Daschle’s web log his argument may or may not be effective. Personally I rely more on hard cold facts than I do on sob stories from people I have no reason to trust.
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My name is Tessa Rutledge. I am a freshman at Ga Tech. I was born in Atlanta, Ga but I have lived in many other states including Illinois, California, and New Mexico. I am now living in Atlanta with my mother, father, and three sisters. I recently graduated from Tallulah Falls boarding school in North Georgia. I have not yet declared a major mostly because I have no idea what I want to do with my life at this point, but I will more than likely end up in a science field. I hope to study and work in numerous fields throughout my life, and when I retire from whatever profession I end up choosing I hope to become a writer. Outside of class I enjoy sports, reading, writing, shopping, hanging out with friends, and partying (responsibly)! I consider myself a very open person, but I am also very stubborn. When I take a stand on a matter of serious importance I am not one to change my view easily however I will always listen and consider someone elses beliefs. I hope that you will get to know me more as I expand my blog. Thanks for taking the time to check out my blog please feel to do so anytime!
