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Re: John McCain is the 'Great White Hope'         


Author: Bret Cahill
Date: Aug 4, 2008 12:04

Pretty good analogy.
> Published on Saturday, August 2, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
>
> John McCain is the 'Great White Hope'
>
> by Joseph A. Palermo
>
> John McCain and Company are shocked, SHOCKED that their now infamous Britney...
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Re: John McCain is the 'Great White Hope'         


Author: Immortalist
Date: Aug 4, 2008 14:19

>> McCain's TV commercial smearing Obama for his "celebrity" with images of
>> Britney Spears and Paris Hilton dissolving into images of Obama is the first
>> montage the Republicans have deployed featuring...
>>
>> ...Obama and young white women.
>
>> It will not be the last.
>
>> There is a pattern here: John McCain willfully misconstrues things Obama
>> says and then pretends to be "astonished" that Obama would say such things.

The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a
person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or
misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" is
fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply
does not constitute an attack on the position itself. One might as
well expect an attack on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the
person.

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html
>> McCain stands by his campaign's attack ad that falsely accused Obama of
>> snubbing troops in Lundstahl, Germany. He also stands by his campaign's
>> sleazy Britney/Paris ad claiming that some useful...
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Re: John McCain is the 'Great White Hope'         


Author: Bret Cahill
Date: Aug 5, 2008 08:03

>>> There is a pattern here: John McCain willfully misconstrues things Obama
>>> says and then pretends to be "astonished" that Obama would say such things.
>
> The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a
> person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or
> misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" is
> fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply
> does not constitute an attack on the position itself. One might as
> well expect an attack on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the
> person.

A straw man attack is generally easy to monkey wrench because it
provides opportunities to _demonstrate_ the opposite and prove that
the attacker doesn't know what he's talking about.

More problematical for Obama is the week before the election the corp.
media will be hyping madrasses like there's no tomorrow.

That too can be partially nullified if Obama warns everyone about it
first.

Bret Cahill
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Re: John McCain is the 'Great White Hope'         


Author: Publius
Date: Aug 5, 2008 16:55

Bret Cahill aol.com> wrote in
news:26e48ab5-eabb-4b55-8e42-2169de4bb14c@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

Why are you posting McCain/Obama drivel in alt.phil? Shouldn't it go to
alt.demagogues.fanclubs or somewhere?
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Re: Re: John McCain is the 'Great White Hope'         


Author: Publius
Date: Aug 6, 2008 11:13

Topaz hotmail.com> wrote in
news:c78j94hiilj3qafope4vdijgd2lrbq0465@4ax.com:
> No Way Out But Through the Jews

[ . . .]

Spare us.
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Re: Re: Re: John McCain is the 'Great White Hope'         


Author: Topaz
Date: Aug 7, 2008 14:46

The West is the White race.

The goal of America is to destroy the White race. The
multi-culture and pluralism they push is only at the expense of
Whites. No one is trying to push multi-culture in China or Japan or
anyplace but on the Whites. And they promote racial intermarriage.
If things continue as they are the White race is doomed.

And who is doing all of this? It is the USA government and the
media, in other words the Jews.

Many Whites are traitors. They support the USA government and their
own destruction. We should look for allies. And anyone who wants to
remove the Jews from power is our ally. In the past the Japanese were
our allies. Today it is the Muslims.

Osama bin Laden
September 24th statement published in Pakistan
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