Thou Shalt Not Make Broad Generalizations

Earlier this week, Ari Fleisher was on Anderson Cooper's show on CNN. It was a fairly interesting exchange regarding current politics, but one of his comments has stuck with me so I decided to vent about it here. By no means is he the only person that has made broad generalization statements that mislead the masses, but his is the one on my mind today. Fleisher made the comment that President Obama didn't seem to like corporations. When I was a child, at some point I remember being presented lessons or tests with particular scenarios that were to teach us from making broad generalizations that in fact, were false. For instance, if they showed you a picture of a black dog, the caption would read... This is a dog. The dog is black. Therefore all dogs are black. You would answer true or false to the statement. The lesson is "thou shalt not make broad generalizations." I guess Fleisher missed that lesson, further proving that education and degrees d