I was sent an email containing the following statements. Politics aside, I like to comment on the logical fallacy committed by the sender.
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If any other of our presidents had doubled the National Debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would You have Approved?Fallacy: Judging an action which asking the cause of the action. What else can Obama do when he inherited a situation that bad?
If any other of our presidents had then proposed to Double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
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If any other of our presidents had criticized a State Law that he admitted he never even read, would you think that he is just an ignorant hot Head?Fallacy: How does one know if another person has or has not read something? "that he admitted he never even read" - What is the context when this admission was made?
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If any other of our presidents had pronounced the Marine Corps as if it were the Marine Corpse, would you think him an Idiot?Fallacy: Diversion. What has the pronunciation have to do with an argument?
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If any other of our presidents had put 87,000 workers out of work by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling on companies that have one of the best safety records of any industry because one foreign company had an accident, would you have agreed?Fallacy: Almost every policy will have winners and losers.
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If any other of our presidents had used a forged document as the basis of the moratorium that would render 87000 American workers unemployed,Fallacy: "forged document" - proof needed. BTW, was it not that USA invaded Iraq based on false premise - the Iraq has weapon of mass destruction?
would you support him?
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If any other of our presidents had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?Fallacy: Good point. Just watch the following video.
AND THE LIST GOES ON...