What is a rhetorical situation?
How does it shape/inform/constitute the ways we speak and write? What are its constituent parts?
President Obama's remarks on the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque": What's the rhetorical situation here? What are its specific constituents (exigences, audiences, constraints)? In your estimation, to what extent did President Obama offer a "fitting response to the situational exigence"? Did he, in other words, "hit the mark" in both a timely and fitting way?
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