rhetorically speaking

I'm going over the syllabus trying to get an idea for assignment 2, but am having trouble. We are told to write about a rhetorical conversation involving public opinion. But I'm finding that most of the stories we have read are tied so closely to political issues that this rhetorical debate is lacking the authors own feelings. Anybody can find an issue online then find other peoples opinions about a particular political problem and simply rhetorically analyze it until your blue in the face. The problem with this assignment is that it lacks personal direction. When talking about something that nobody can fully understand like these universal issues we tend to tie radical positions to personal experience, whether maybe having extremist parents, or simply not being tipped often as a waiter at applebee's. Without speaking in a biased voice during this assignment, after it's completion each of our papers will share the same run on voice that's used by backwards politicians who talk them selves in circles about the same problems.