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And then there are those clear and simple, active voice, yet deliberately misleading statements like "I did not click Continue with that woman..."
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> > Assuming that Mourdock was speaking from a text, his faux pas exemplifies how important it is to hire good writers. A clear and simple statement--such as "Every baby is a gift from God"--would have been a hard to mistake, twist, or misunderstand.
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> Maybe a qualifier could have helped. Sometimes, a qualifier can be
> implied, like "button," and other times a qualifier should be stated.
> But there was little to mistake in, "I think even when life begins in
> that horrible situation of rape, that’s something God intended to
> happen." Two interpretations of the "intention" are rape or the
> conception from rape.
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