Although, I find many factual as well as logical issues with Daniels' speech I want to focus on one particularly egregious argument Daniels makes. Daniels attacks Obama's attempt to protect the people of the United States from predatory financial techniques through his new consumer bureau. But his attack ignores the reality and uses a sneaky technique to try and gain support for his position against new regulations.
In our society we are constantly surrounded by convincing but poor arguments. Common rhetorical practice involves the misuse of language and logic in order to prove a point. This blog is dedicated to skeptically looking at this art of rhetoric by breaking down arguments and seeing if they hold water.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
The loyal but dishonest opposition
After watching Tuesday nights State of the Union by President Obama and the opposition response by Mitch Daniels I couldn't help but use Daniels' speech as a basis of my next post (read the response here or watch it here). Obama as usual gave a speech with solid logical points (though with a good amount of rhetoric). On the other hand, Daniels gave a speech that obscured the problems and confused the issues.
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