Kerry displays this technique toward the end of his speech by saying, "And our safety at home may someday be endangered as Iraq becomes a training ground for the next generation of terrorists." Further on he says," If I am President, we will embark on a historic effort to create alternative fuels and the vehicles of the future-to make this country energy independent of Mildest oil within ten years. So our sons and daughters will never have to fight and die for it". Kerry's statements make the audience afraid of the future with the way things are going in today's world. These statements frighten people about what will happen to them and their home if the "next generation of terrorists" is not stopped in time. And of course, Kerry didn't forget to mention "our sons and daughters", which arose horrible thoughts in most parent's, and made them afraid of their children "dying for oil". That fear of their children dying and their homes getting destroyed, makes the audience look at Kerry as a new hope for a better tomorrow.
Further ahead in his speech, he uses the "faulty cause and effect" technique while addressing the 9/11 incident. The cause and effect relationship in the sequence of events has no real sense, but an attempt to finger point towards the Bush Administration for something they might not be held responsible for logically, for example, the 9/11 attack on twin WTC buildings. He remarks that "In the months leading up to September 11th, two of the hijackers were arrested for drunk driving - and another was stopped for speeding and then let go, although he was already the subject of an arrest warrant in a neighboring county and was on a federal terrorist watch list. We need to simplify and streamline the multiple national terrorist watch lists and make sure the right information is available to the right people on the frontlines of preventing the next attack." What he is trying to highlight, is that if those people had been caught for small break of law, the 9/11 tragedy would not have happened.
John F. ... Martin Luther King begins his speech by identifying seven main concerns that he has about the war in Vietnam. ... John F. ... Kerry spoke of the uncertainties of fighting in Vietnam. ... John Kerry goes on to say that the war only creates a negative picture of the United States society. ...
