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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (77156)	1/29/2010 9:44:29 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

You may be right, but here's how I look at it. A red herring in Obama's case is an answer given that goes beyond an innocent logical reference. No one that I know of in the public debate is arguing we should do nothing to change the health care system. And no one is arguing government should completely take over every aspect of it. So, he sets up a binary false argument and then attempts to persuade people he's somewhere in the middle. Anyone could be made to look reasonable if they followed similar illogical branches of an argument. Let's take gun control as an example. Some say everyone should possess a personal nuclear weapon, others that no one including the police should have firearms. I believe, yack, yack, yack..... It's a moronic way to debate an issue and explain your position. Creating false arguments and then framing your position around those false arguments is no only disingenuous, it's just plain silly. I can't believe anyone is fooled by the nonsense.