What an odd rhetoric device

Aug 29, 2010 01:21

"America is at a crossroads ... we must advance or perish"

Now, as evidenced by the ellipses, that's not precisely what he said in the speech, but the sentence construction implies this. And a decent editor should have caught this and pointed out "You know, at a crossroads, you have more than one direction to advance in."

If you're only providing two ( Read more... )

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mythos_amante August 30 2010, 02:39:38 UTC
I totally agree! LOL!

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