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Joe Biden's incurable plagiarism

Submitted by Ironman on Sat, 09/20/2008 - 23:05
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I feel sorry for Joe Biden. really. He soooo wants to have a really cool, blue collar hero background. Like , how is having a dad who sold Chevy's in Wilmington, Delaware at all cool, especially when your opponent shoots moose for sport.  And practicing law and being a Senator for life. Not at all moose hunting cool.

Well, once again, the "reality based" Biden creates an alternative universe where he got his hands real dirty. Of course he tried that in 1988 , stealing the biography of British Labor party leader Neil Kinnock, (who had real blue collar roots) thus imploding his campaign, but, hey,  maybe folks forgot.

Joe Biden 2008
 
 
"Hope you won’t hold it against me, but I am a hard coal miner -- anthracite coal. Scranton, Pennsylvania, that’s where I was born and raised.”
 
Joe Biden 1988
 
Unlike Kinnock, Biden wasn't the first person in his family history to attend college, as he asserted; nor were his ancestors coal miners, as he claimed when he used Kinnock's words. Once exposed, Biden's campaign team managed to come up with a great-grandfather who had been a mining engineer, but he hardly fit the candidate's description of one who "would come up [from the mines] after 12 hours and play football." At any rate, Biden had delivered his offending remarks with an introduction that clearly implied he had come up with them himself and that they pertained to his own life.
 
 
The word here is pathological

 

Cover Up? Plagiarize A Cartoon And You Become A Cartoon

Submitted by Contratimes on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 13:24
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I am wondering if we are watching the greatest political meltdown in American history. I am also wondering if the "Lipstick Defense" is a cover-up.

James Taranto simply passes over something I find absolutely incredible, especially since accusations of plagiarism have been hurled at both Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the past.

Please, read (right now) the monologue bubble to Tom Toles' September 5 cartoon in the Washington Post. And then read what Barack Obama said FOUR DAYS later (as printed in the LA Times):
 

"John McCain says he's about change too...So I guess his whole angle is: Watch out, George Bush -- except for economic policy, healthcare policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics, we're really going to shake things up in Washington.

"That's not change. That's just calling the same thing something different. But you can put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, and it's still going to stink after eight years." [emphasis mine]

 

Pretty amazing, huh? How did this go unnoticed? Why did this go unnoticed? Did Sen. Obama preface or end his remarks with due attribution to Tom Toles? I believe he did not.

Seriously, I have never seen such a swift and immediate meltdown. I did not think the lipstick remark would be all that devastating to Barack Obama. Alas, it seems it highlighted a part of his speech that Sen. Obama would have liked to conceal. How ironic that he would have used lipstick to highlight his apparent plagiarism!

 

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