In this column David Limbaugh observes that our supposedly highly intellectual president resorts to fallacious arguments to defend his foolish spendathon. Specifically, when the question of fiscal responsibility came up, he pointed out that the Republicans had also run up huge deficits while in office, expecting people to conclude that for that reason his own (and even greater) deficit is fine.
In logic, that’s known as the “tu quoque” fallacy: I’m above criticism because you did it too!
If Obama can do no better than to hide behind an elementary logical fallacy when confronted with skepticism about his policies, I think it’s time for American voters to conclude that they were had.
