Apr 9, 2009

Obama is wrong to always use strawman arguments

Obama is Wrong:
Reasons to agree:
  1. Obama said; "It's not going to happen. We're not going to go round them up ... We should give them a pathway to citizenship (Obama at Joliet town hall)" But no one wants to "round them up".
  2. Obama used strawman arguments with the stimulas bill. Whenever people would criticize it, he would say, "well some people don't want to do anything".
Background:
A straw man
argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[1] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position

Interest of those who agree (that Obama is wrong):

  1. Promoting the Republican Party by attacking a democrat.
  2. Promoting more logical debate.
  3. Racism (criticizing a minority, Obama, because he is a minority).

Interest of those who disagree (that Obama is wrong):

  1. Promoting the Democratic Party by defending a democrat.
  2. Liberal guilt (defending a minority, Obama, because he is a minority).

Obama wants to reward people for breaking the law.

Obama is Wrong:

Reasons to agree:

  1. Obama said; he "will not support any bill that does not provide an earned path to citizenship for the undocumented population."

Interest of those who agree (that Obama is wrong):

  1. Promoting the Republican Party by attacking a democrat.
  2. The Rule of Law
  3. Self interest: promoting their own race (if their race is different from the immigrant)

Interest of those who disagree (that Obama is wrong):

  1. Promoting the Democratic Party by defending a democrat.
  2. Self interest: promoting their own race (if their race is the same as the immigrant).
  3. Family. Trying to re-unite with their family from South America