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Originally posted by Gattigap
What Cheney precisely said was:
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Cheney, in Des Moines on Tuesday, delivered the campaign's message that the United States would be safer in Bush's hands with cutting-torch directness, saying, "It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on November 2nd, that we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again."
He continued, "That we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind-set, if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts and that we're not really at war."
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Here's what throws me:
You post this, and tell me that "this is precisely what Cheney said'.
But, your version has this narration in it that makes for a pause and a seeming end-of-discrete-statement - to wit - A para break, followed by "He continued . . . "
I listened. I didn't hear him say "he continued". I didn't hear tha pause. I heard it as a run-on sentence.
I think you have to add this to get the menaing you want to claim.
