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Yes, people who make mistakes can still run the entire USA. It has been done before.

• lifeguard 14y ago
  This kind of false equivocation is dishonest and intellectually lazy.
  • Xcelerate 14y ago
    I disagree. His point is very valid.
    • lifeguard 14y ago
      His use of "mistakes" is a verbal fallacy called equivocation. Not all mistakes are the same. wikipedia: Equivocation ("to call by the same name") is classified as both a formal and informal logical fallacy. It is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense
• Jare 14y ago
  This "mistake" is what most people would call 'utter incompetence'.
  • rhizome 14y ago
    "Utter incompetence" is composed of more than one mistake.
    • danso 14y ago
      Well, one could argue that there were a few other mistakes, some quite public, that Romney made leading to the election.
      • rhizome 14y ago
        Sure, but the poster said "this" mistake.