After being confused about what reading we were supposed to do for today, I decided to just read this article just to be safe. I found it very interesting and I must say it kept my attention. I like how it separated the topics into different sections because in my eyes that keeps everything organized. I did find this reading to be irrelevant to what we have been discussing in class with the presidential candidates, but at the same time it is useful information. Guilt by association is something that you see all the time in the form of judgement, if someone's friends are a certain way than that person is automatically the same way. I really enjoyed the ad misericordiam because I can relate to it. It is something that I always used to use with my parents when I was younger. I gave them a story filled with pity, in order to get my way. I also liked the tu quoque, which means "you did it too." I don't know a person who hasn't used this technique in their everyday life. I know that I myself have used it in argument with my parents from time to time. For some reason, teens think that everything that they do is okay because at some point in time their parents probably took part in the same act as a child. As I have came to find out, that is not always true and using tu quoque usually just gets you in trouble. As for what we have been discussing in class, the presidential candidates are often found using many of these different techniques. Presidential candidates are often found using ad hominem, fallacy of opposition, ad misericordiam, ad populum, and red herring. Altogether I enjoyed the reading and found that it was useful information for all of us.