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The present study explores the interplay of metaphor, metonymy and evaluation \nin an American and Spanish parliamentary speech by President Obama and PM \nRajoy, aiming at convincing the public of economic victory through positive selfevaluation and other-deprecation. A further objective is to investigate whether \nthere is a relationship between the speakers’ ideological positions and the entities \nthat are evaluated. Within the general framework of CDA for parliamentary \ndebates (van Dijk, 2005), we use Martin and White’s Appraisal scheme as an \nanalytical tool. The results reveal that both political candidates used evaluation in \ntheir speeches as a tool to justify and persuade the audience of their economic \ndecisions. On the other hand, both politicians used evaluation, not as an \nexpression of their own ideological traits, but also as an ideological tool that \nwould favor their intentions of rising to power
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