Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.It's clear enough to me that Senator John McCain would have made a great president. Look, it isn't often that we get a chance to elect a guy who's a war hero, a prisoner of war in an enemy prison camp, and we ought to have done it when we had the chance.
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Reference to the prisoner-of-war experience remains an irrelevant conclusion until it's at least indicated how it is relevant to performance as president.
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a. true b. false
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