Conversational

How do we know you just rolled your eyes? Because you see conversational listed as the writing style for a political speech.

But bear with us for a hot second.

Obama's speech is the opposite of the shmoozy Ferris Bueller's Day Off-style drone that characterizes so many speeches by political hopefuls. Obama's skill at combining delivery and diction created a speech that felt less like a lecture and more like the start of a dialogue.

In this particular case, that was a very conscious choice because the entire point of this speech was to encourage us to make strides toward speaking about and changing certain American realities.