The Vice Presidential debates are always a strong example of rhetoric in action. In the following rhetorical analysis, I will comment on the democratic candidate Joe Biden's use of logos. Joe Biden employed logos in to his answers many times throughout the debate. First of all, when asked what promises his campaign couldn't keep he quickly answered with a logical straight-forward answer. He says that the country must "slow down on" foreign assistance, which can be logically interpreted as taking care of your own before others. Biden then begins to start to challenge the views of the republican party by listing things in which he disagrees with that they support. Biden says he will not support the huge tax cuts for the wealthy which is a great use of logos since most of Americans aren't extremely wealthy. Joe Biden logically then takes his answer in a new direction when he starts to talk about all the things that he will not "slow down on". He says that education must be supported so that we can support our future generations. He talks about the importance of a new energy proposal that would create new jobs. Then Biden deliver the "bottom line": "The bottom line here is that we are going to, in fact, eliminate those wasteful spending that exist in the budget right now, a number of things I don't have time, because the light is blinking, that I won't be able to mention, but one of which is the $100 billion tax dodge that, in fact, allows people to take their post office box off- shore, avoid taxes. I call that unpartiotic". Biden uses strong pathos and logos when he calls for an end to offshore postal accounts calling them "unpatriotic". This causes an emotional and logical response in a TY audience because Americans are very proud people so when something is listed as "unpatriotic" that would really cause some heads to turn.
