7/8/2023 0 Comments Cast of mind your languageMcCain places the individual at the service of the higher, intangible: Is the liberty we defend- the liberty of each of us to follow our we have the unparalleled freedom to pursue our dreams. Of America in the abstract, but a very particular love for, and faith Obama's goes for the personal and the interpersonal, and grounds abstractions in an individual reality: Share in the promise and responsibilities of freedom. It is the willing acceptance of Americans.to try to make a nation in which all people putting the country first, before party or personal ambition,īefore anything. Obama places at the top the society of individuals and grounds abstract notions to their immediate and real world analogs. McCain makes appeals to abstract notions and higher concepts, and subordinates the individual to the greater. The differences in the essays can be summarized by the differences in the use of personal pronouns:
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