lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2008

Presidential Debate Fallacies

Presidential debate Fallacies

McCAin- “Is it expensive? Yes. But we all know, my friends, until we stabilize home values in America, we're never going to start turning around and creating jobs and fixing our economy. And we've got to give some trust and confidence back to America.”
This can be a circular reasoning fallacy because the main problem is that the economical status is getting worse. If they use the money on houses there will be no money for jobs nor to fix the economy, the same would happen if they use the money for jobs or for fixing the economy.

McCain- “But you know, they're the ones that, with the encouragement of Sen. Obama and his cronies and his friends in Washington, that went out and made all these risky loans, gave them to people that could never afford to pay back.”
I find this like begging the question because Mcain is not really asked who is guilty but how are they going to help them so he doesn’t really answer the question and starts accusing that could be the next safe spot.

Obama- “And Sen. McCain during that period said that we should keep on deregulating because that's how the free enterprise system works. Now, with respect to Fannie Mae, what Sen. McCain didn't mention is the fact that this bill that he talked about wasn't his own bill. He jumped on it a year after it had been introduced and it never got passed. And I never promoted Fannie Mae. In fact, Sen. McCain's campaign chairman's firm was a lobbyist on behalf of Fannie Mae, not me.” This is sort of Non Causa Pro Causa, because Obama’s cause for the problem is not really the cause of the problem In other words him not supporting Fannie Mae is not the cause of the problem.

Obama- “Well, look, I understand your frustration and your cynicism, because while you've been carrying out your responsibilities -- most of the people here, you've got a family budget. If less money is coming in, you end up making cuts. Maybe you don't go out to dinner as much. Maybe you put off buying a new car. That's not what happens in Washington. And you're right. There is a lot of blame to go around.”
This is hasty generalization because not all people put off buying a car and stop going to dinners because some people are corrupt and steal the money from taxes. Also I think that there are some people in Washington that are also suffering of this economical problem so he is generalizing

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