This symposium, "Barack Obama's Significance for Rhetoric and Composition," aims to provoke and renew disciplinary conversations about the meaning of an age now nearly past, as well as to pose questions that resonate for presidential rhetoric generally. It includes: (1) "Obama's Rhetoric: Black Talk Flow, White Folk Fluent" (Nicole Ashanti McFarlane); (2) "Obama's Feminine Discourse: A Rhetorical Necessity of Black Male Leadership" (Erec Smith); (3) "Is Barack Obama the First Feminist President?" (Elizabeth A. Flynn); and (4) "On Obama's Eloquence as a Disciplinary Dilemma" (Ira Allen).