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Originally Posted by tooblue
? Read the quote -not the misquoting:
"Should God speak to you, and ask you to do something that might be in conflict with your duties as president, or should He speak to your prophet who would speak to you, how would you make that decision, how would you handle that?" reporter Natalie Jacobson asks.
Romney laughs and then replies, "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."
He is talking about himself. NOT the church, not Joseph Smith, not Gordon B Hinckley -but others presume he is speaking about those people because it profits them to create controversy!
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I am not misquoting him. Instead of highlighting the words you selected, let's try some others:
"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...