Obama Straw Man Watch
May 24th, 2009 Posted in Media
“The Straw Man fallacy involves the attribution or assumption of a position, which is then attacked or dismissed, The problem is that the position dismissed by the argument is not the real ‘man’ or ‘person’, but a caricature of the real position held.”—Christopher W. Tindale, Fallacies and Argument Appraisal, January 2007
Obama’s Straw Man Attacks
We can’t afford to let the same phony arguments and bad habits of Washington kill financial reform and leave American consumers and our economy vulnerable to another meltdown. Rquo
President Barack Obama, “Weekly Address: President Obama Applauds Important Step Forward on Financial Reform,” December 12, 2009
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