Presidential Fallacies

1. "Instead of having a discussion, let me ask you as a coda to that. Would you give Congress a date certain to reform Social Security and Medicare within two years after you take office? Because in a bipartisan way, everyone agrees, that's a big ticking time bomb that will eat us up maybe even more than the mortgage crisis." 

Here there are two fallacies. First, there is the hasty generalization fallacy when Brokaw states that EVERYONE agrees with his reasoning. Another fallacy that can be found here is the "either or" fallacy which he uses to say that either the Social Security and Medicare is reformed, or a "big ticking time bomb that will eat us up maybe even more that the mortgage crisis", will go off. 

3. Obama uses an "either or" fallacy when he states that, "We're going to have to explore new ways to get more oil, and that includes offshore drilling. It includes telling the oil companies, that currently have 68 million acres that they're not using, that either you use them or you lose them."

4. Obama uses a slippery slope fallacy (also called a Camel's Nose fallacy) when he says that "If they can't get a loabm that means that they can't make a payroll. If they can't make a payroll, then they may end up having to shut theur doors and lay people off."