Letters to the Editor
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Astonishing
"The professor who taught the course pointed out that the candidate with the most direct speech patterns always wins. I knew then Kerry was doomed."
Over the next 6 months, Obama and Hillary will deliver 100s and 100s of speeches. Probably, by Aug 2008, they will each have delivered 5/day, for a total of 800+. In those 800 speeches, Hillary is going to find thousands and thousands and thousands of ambiguous statements.
It really depends on where you start and where you are going. Hillary's basic approach is to parse Obama's statements like a Republican, and then, using her mentor Karl Rove's patented approach, find a distortion of them to work with. Obama is not doing that. He is working with Hillary's votes.
Hillary distorts, lies and cheats. Obama tells the truth, although sometimes with a subclause.
McBush distorts, lies and cheats. McBush and Hillary are both liars, distorting at the speed of light.
It just depends on what you want. If you want to find a complex statement in one of the thousands and thousands of speeches, you can find that, and you can distort it. Of course, then you would be Hillary.