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"Well, I don't recall God speaking to me. I, I don't recall God speaking to anyone since, uh, Moses and the [burning] bush, or perhaps some OTHERS, but, but I don't have that frequent of communication." You are trying to ignore over half of the sentence to focus on what you want to see. What he did say involved two different premises: 1. Mitt hasn't spoken with God. 2. Neither has anyone else he can remember except for Moses (and PERHAPS some others). Your habit of parsing phrases is getting you into a bind here. Would it be accurate of me to say the following (assuming I were a history professor at Harvard): I haven't fought in a battle; nobody has fought in a battle, that I can recall, other than the ancient Greeks, and perhaps some others, but I haven't fought in a battle. What do you think people would say about a quote like that? By the way, I noticed you helped Mitt out by inserting [burning] in front of bush. Nice of you to do. But what if he ACTUALLY meant to say "Well, I don't recall God speaking to me. I, I don't recall God speaking to anyone since, uh, Moses and the Bush?" That might fit more in line here... Last edited by Cali Coug; 12-26-2007 at 05:28 PM. |
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By the way, I would note that voting for Romney because he is Mormon is as dumb as voting for Hillary because she is a woman, Obama because he is African-American, or Huckabee because he is an evangelical. It is equally silly to vote against any of them on those premises alone.
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okay that was funny
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And the fact of the matter is WE don't have the WHOLE quote so we are all culpable of misquoting to one degree or another ... Until we get a transcript we don't know exactly what was said ... and that is my point -it's a fabricated controversy!
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