ELIZABETH WARREN WILL TAKE A STAND FOR US ALL! 

One of Elizabeth Warren’s most moving speeches is highlighted in the Huffington Post, titled, “The Speech That Could Make Elizabeth Warren the Next President of the United States.” You can find this link by clicking here or by visiting: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/the-speech-that-could-make-elizabeth-warren-president_b_6319142.html

In this speech, Elizabeth, once again, calls the government out for their mistakes and issues. Elizabeth is known to be very intense, blunt and determined. She really focuses, in this speech, on the well being of the middle class, the Wall Street bailouts and the Citi Group involvement issues.

Political Language 

Elizabeth uses labeling as a political language strategy to tell her audience that the Wall Street bailouts are bad and no one likes them, by stating, “Democrats don't like Wall Street bailouts. Republicans don't like Wall Street bailouts. The American people are disgusted by Wall Street bailouts.” Elizabeth was successful in this use of political language because it gives us a negative viewpoint on the bailouts, which helps her case. This could also be considered a type of reinforcement because she gives preexisting beliefs to validate her opinion of the unhealthy use of bailouts. I don’t know too much about the details of the bailouts, but after I watched this part of her speech, I was already convinced that I hated the Wall Street bailouts as well.

One of the most moving quotes from her speech, in my opinion, is followed below:

“Washington already works really well for the billionaires and the big corporations and the lawyers and the lobbyists. But what about the families who lost their homes or their jobs or their retirement savings the last time Citigroup bet big on derivatives and lost? What about the families who are living paycheck to paycheck and saw their tax dollars go to bail out Citi just 6 years ago? We were sent here to fight for those families. It is time, it is past time, for Washington to start working for them!” - Elizabeth Warren 

           

She also does a great job in properly showing the large financial stability that these "too big to fail" businesses have over most American individuals when she says, “Think about that kind of power. If a financial institution has become so big and so powerful that it can hold the entire country hostage. That alone is reason enough to break them up.”

Read Between the Lines

            Elizabeth is not only focusing on the need to stop the bailouts for huge banks but also her constant fight to help the middle class. I think this is an underlying subject that Warren tries to include in many of her speeches and other mediated accounts. She begins closing her speech with quotes about protecting the families of the lower and middle class.

"What about the families who lost their homes or their jobs or their retirement savings?"

"What about the families who are living paycheck to paycheck and saw their tax dollars go to bail out Citi just 6 years ago?"

"We were sent here to fight for those families."

- Elizabeth Warren