Really? Okay, I'll explain.What about her statement confuses you?I just clicked over to CNN to see a clip of Hillary Clinton speaking. She said, "America is great because America is good, and we have to make that true." That's truly what she said. Did she have too many cocktails in the "green room?" I'm not used to hearing her make such incoherently inane remarks.
Mrs. Clinton is a lawyer, which means she's well aware of what is a logically fallacious statement is. Why she'd make a statement as blatantly irrational as the one noted in the OP is surprising. Maybe she wasn't thinking about what she was saying? Maybe she thought nobody in the audience would notice? I don't know. I just know I was listening and I noticed the absurdity of the statement.
- If America is great, then making that be so has already happened; we don't need to make so that which already is so.
- "America is great because it is good" is illogical for multiple reasons:
- Circular: It's great because it's good, which, by implication, makes it great.
- Affirming the Consequent: Though her remark isn't presented in the textbook "if-then" form, it's substance is that of "If P, then Q. Q. Therefore P." All she's done is discard the the conditional via the modus ponens technique which allows one to say the same thing without the "if-then."
Hillary is no longer a lawyer. She failed to keep up her education requirements so she lost her license to practice.