Reconsidering Obama
reflections on rhetoric

Introduction / Robert E. Terrill, Indiana University -- Rhetorical charges: mercurian figures and democratic hope after Obama / Peter Simonson, University of Colorado Boulder -- A wrestling of brothers: (re)writing Obama separately and together (again) / David A. Frank, University of Oregon & Mark Lawrence McPhail, Indiana University Northwest -- Barack Obama's neo-racial responses to black death / Amy L. Heyse, California State University, Long Beach & Ebony A. Utley, California State University, Long Beach -- Obama's rhetoric of myth and reason / Robert C. Rowland, The University of Kansas -- Barack Obama at the threshold of a new America / Robert L. Ivie, Indiana University & Oscar Giner, Arizona State University -- The once and future teleological discourse of Barack Obama / Richard W. Leeman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte -- Testing the narrative signature perspective: the case of Obama and health care reform / Martin J. Medhurst, Baylor University -- Losing patience with an imperfect president and imperfect people / Derek R. Sweet, Luther College & Margret McCue-Enser, Saint Catherine University -- How selective amnesia brought us the first Black Socialist president of the United States / Kristen Hoerl, University of Nebraska-Lincoln -- A reflection on the Obama phenomenon, our heroic expectations, and the Obama presidency / Jennifer R. Mercieca, Texas A&M University