What does Obama believe?

Mudder_s_Mudder
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:31:07 +0000

Feel free to disagree with the posted article

Thank you, I will. How does he logical fallacy? Let me count the ways…

Straw man:
Obama is a postmodernist, postmodernism is an enormous intellectual hustle and deeply dishonest; therefore, Obama is a deeply dishonest hustler.

Ad hominem:
Obama has a God complex or is hopelessly arrogant, a sorcerer using magical incantations, whose policy proposals are stage props.

False dilemma:
Either a Christian cleaves to one set of values not his own or he’s a postmodernist.

Biased sample:
One interview quote taken out of context to support the author’s bias against postmodernism.

Appeal to consequences of belief:
If we elect a dangerous postmodernist like Obama, we will elect someone with only a theoretical attachment to reality.

Hasty generalization:
The Americans Germans like are entertainers who lack a serious purpose and substance because they like one, David Hasselhoff.

An opinion column by Jonah Goldberg, among the most neocon of neocons. Editor-in-Chief of National Review Online. Author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. All in all, a very good example of the far-right’s character-smear machine in action. Thanks for posting it.