George Bush Was Either Cunning or Dumb, but he can't be both
I was reading this Gawker post on whether we will ever get a Frost/Bush type interview and one of the commenters pointed out the logical fallacy common among George Bush haters.
I was not trying to debate Bush's greatness […] but rather to get people to make up their minds as to whether he was stupid or cunning.
I've watched your argument being formed over the past eight years by the left.
- George Bush must be the stupidest President that ever lived.
- Wait! He took us to a false war. He must be crafty.
-Wait! He said something stupid, but we couldn't have been taken to war by someone stupid, so he must have been the puppet of smart people who are only good at taking us to war, but not at anything else. […] make up your mind and tell me what you think Bush is. (comment link)
I'm not a George Bush lover by any mean (nor a Republican for that matter). I just get annoyed by people blinded by hate. How can you not see the flaw in reasoning like this: On the one hand he is dumbest guy in the world not even capable of tying his shoes let alone running the country. On the other hand he was the political mastermind behind The Pentaverate that duped the American people into making him President in order to mold the good ole' USA into a Police State with him as its Emperor
Sadly, now the right does the same thing with Barack Obama. Will it never end?