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Originally posted by bilmore
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.
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I'm sorry if the quote from the newspaper threw you, but I suspect that you're actually saying that you didn't hear a pause, and that without one, the quote is totally different.
Assuming that this is true, we could also argue about the merits of Cheney's revised remarks, because most of the substantive disagreements between the parties aren't over whether terrorism is a military or a criminal justice matter. Both parties generally agree that it's both. (Certainly Ashcroft needs this to be so).
Regardless -- I have looked for an audio link but haven't found one yet. However, I think that the widespread reporting of this interpretation suggests that it's certainly ambiguous, and that this is not a case of the crowd failing to boo.
And regardless again, you and I have already discussed the substance of this. I believe that this interpretation has resonance because the theme is AT THE FUCKING HEART of the GOP platform.
Forget about Bush's stewardship of the economy, about jobs, about the balooning deficit, about the significant likelihood that a second Bush term will be little more than a four-year series of Congressional hearings over scandals borne in the first -- all of this will be moot if you vote for Kerry, because if you're stupid enough to vote for Senator Spitball, you will die a fiery death at the hands of Jihadists. And
I don't think you disagreed with that assessment.
So your efforts to parse and defend Cheney's sequence of breaths, and express bafflement at how people could read it otherwise, is -- well, baffling.
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