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To: Fantasywriter

“I can’t imagine you would. It’s a mere question. All you have to do is answer.”

Well, that’s not my recollection. Your first question, I answered directly: I’ve posted on just a few other subjects, and yes, I’m here on the birther issue. It was your continuing focus on me, rather than the subject at issue, that I took as an ad-hominem attack. It was certainly ad-hominem, directed at the person rather than the argument, but maybe I went to far in describing it as an attack.


553 posted on 10/02/2011 1:58:00 AM PDT by BladeBryan
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To: BladeBryan

How is the question, ‘have you ever criticized Obama’ directed at you as a person? It’s directed at your your opinions and attitudes, specifically re: Obama. He is literally destroying the country. It would be a herculean feat for the average conservative to belong to a conservative site for a year and never utter even a mildly critical thing about Obama. Yet when I ask about it, this sets off red flags for you?


559 posted on 10/02/2011 7:09:57 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: BladeBryan
Well, that’s not my recollection. Your first question, I answered directly: I’ve posted on just a few other subjects, and yes, I’m here on the birther issue. It was your continuing focus on me, rather than the subject at issue, that I took as an ad-hominem attack. It was certainly ad-hominem, directed at the person rather than the argument, but maybe I went to far in describing it as an attack.

Strange that you recognize ad-hominem as a fallacy, yet not argumentum ad verecundiam, or argumentum ad populum. Or as I mentioned earlier, perhaps you do, and are not above trying to pass a fallacy to the "rubes."

579 posted on 10/02/2011 11:39:47 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: BladeBryan; LucyT; little jeremiah
I’ve posted on just a few other subjects,

Oh really? How many times? You go first and then if you are wrong I'll tell you how many times.

670 posted on 01/03/2012 10:13:36 AM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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