sorry, someone was yelling in my other ear when I wrote that. Let me try to be 
clearer without dragging Venn diagrams into it. 

you seem to be saying 

Voters elect an election winner
All voters are American

Therefore Bush (an election winner) was elected by all Americans. 

Negative. All voters are American (hopefully, as you said) but not all 
Americans are voters. Nor are all Americans who want to be voters able to be 
voters. Your logic can also be refuted by questioning whether elections as they 
are currently taking place in the US actually have anything at all to do with 
voters and votes. 

An example of a valid if false logic, by the way --

All voters are eagles
Maureen is a voter

Therefore Maureen is an eagle

Whereas, if I read you correctly, your logic is closer to 

All voters are eagles
Maureen is an eagle

Therefore Maureen is a voter

See?













> despite your salary she is right about the fallacy -- though I differ 
> somewhat it my opinions from hers. 
> 
> Do it with Venn diagrams and you will see it. Your logic only holds if 
> you put ALL in front of A and B. And at that point you have a clearly 
> false, if logically valid, statement. 
> 
> Dana
> 
> >OK, Prof.
> >
> >How?
> >
> >Dead City Skinhead (G.E.D. Graduate making 6 figures)
> >
>>

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