Obama and the abusive analogy: ‘Someone who was trying to deal with an existential crisis would have been moving heaven and earth to unite people rather than divide them’

Obama and the abusive analogy http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/6/15/obama-and-the-abusive-analogy.html Chapter One of How to Win Every Argument, Madsen Pirie’s systematic survey of the use and abuse of logical fallacies, is on the abusive analogy. This is a wonderful book for those seeking to enhance their rhetorical skills through underhand means, but I sense that President Obama is one […]