Rhetorics

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York said taking credit for the force reductions that Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander in Iraq, was recommending, and that Mr. Bush appeared ready to accept, was “like taking credit for the sun coming up in the morning.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/washington/13policy.html?ref=world
This quote is using ethos because they refer to Hillary Rodham Clinton as Senator, possibly to make her statement more believable and powerful. It can also be pathos because what she says is an exaggeration, surely no one in their right mind would claim such a thing.

“Clearly what’s happened over the last three months has been real success,” said Mr. Boehner, who previously visited Iraq in July 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/washington/13policy.html?ref=world
This quote also uses pathos because again, there is an exaggeration within the word use (clearly). This statement may not be as obvious to others.

Unlike the awful, brilliant day of the attacks, this year’s skies were moody and dark, alternately threatening and delivering rain. The ceremony took place not at ground zero, where construction cranes now rise like tentative fingers of hope, but near its southeastern corner, in Zuccotti Park. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/nyregion/12service.html?ref=nyregion
This quote uses pathos again, because the exaggeration of its gloomy words makes the scene seem probably much more melancholic than what it really was. It is also Logos, because it uses historical facts to support its opinion.

The United States welcomed the news. “Colombia’s capture of cocaine kingpin Diego Montoya shows what can be accomplished by a government that is relentless, focused and skilled in the effort to dismantle threats to its democracy,” said John P. Walters, the White House drug czar.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/world/americas/11colombia.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fColombia
This quote also uses ethos, because it uses someone´s title to give more importance to a statement.

Senator Russell D. Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin, thanked Mr. Crocker and General Petraeus for their hospitality in both Iraq and Pakistan “over the years.” And Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, did them one better with committee room show-and-tell. As she described her desert encounter with Iraqi troops in training in 2006, an aide held up snapshots of Ms. Boxer with colleagues in the field. “You were so upbeat, General,” Ms. Boxer recalled. “You told me we — I’ll never forget it — we were sitting in an armored vehicle.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/washington/12tvwatch.html?ref=arts
This is, in my opinion, a perfect example of ethos rhetoric. It does nothing but give people´s names and titles, making a huge deal out of their reputation, possibly even a bigger deal than the one they make about what these persons are actually saying.