Heinrichs pp 79-133

President Obama has chosen to employ significant amounts of logos to convince America that his healthcare plan would work. As Heinrich states on page 123, “the tools of logos let you apply facts, values and attitudes towards a particular problem.” (Heinrich, 123) President Obama employed this perfectly in a recent interview with ABC news saying that “The country has to reform its health care system or else not only are you going to continue to have people really going through a hard time, we’re also going see a continuing escalation of our budget problems that can’t get under control,” Obama told Moran, “I think America has to win it here.” (ABC news online) I think his statement here was very logical. He stated that if we do not act now on healthcare, then there will be negative consequences. Furthermore, he employed some pathos by appealing to audiences (American) that they are going through a hard time. He knows that Americans DO worry about themselves and their family during these hard economic times. And saying something like this not only shows the logic in his actions, but also it appeals to our values as well