exact words

Tennessee Right to Life is up in arms over Rep. Nathan Vaughn use of an email by the group’s director which implies endorsement when there is none:

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Notice that they use a portion of Palin’s exact words in the response to the bailout question in the skit to parody her.
Art imitates life… funny, scary, pathetic.
Palin’s actual response to Couric on the bailout question (7:25 in the video).  Compare it with the skit.  It’s almost verbatim.
Palin: That’s why I say I, [...]

What would Charlie Gibson have said to  FDR about his radio address in the spring of 1941 when FDR said, “Today the whole world is divided between human slavery and human freedom—between pagan brutality and the Christian ideal. We choose human freedom—which is the Christian ideal. No one of us can waver for a moment in his courage or his faith.”

This will be awesome. The more she opens her mouth, the more stupid she appears.

In her first television interview - she first tried to deny that she said, "U.S. Soldiers on a task that is from God." She was caught, and Gibson confronted her.

Jeff G has the story and the quotes…
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.GIBSON: Exact words.
PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat [...]

Jeff G has the story and the quotes...
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?

PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.

GIBSON: Exact words.

An interesting - and fitting - term, this "hunted." Often this is exactly what my clients and Homeless friends tell me, although perhaps not in those exact words. From cops to property owners to store employees, someone is always "watching," "hunting" them, waiting for them to do something that will allow "society" to "intervene appropriately..."