Biden's use of Neil Kinnock's biographical speech is the standard for political speech plagiarism, IMO. What the Clinton campaign is complaining about is NOTHING like Biden. What politician hasn't quoted famous quotations?

Here's the difference:

http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/plagiarism.html

Posted at February 19, 2008 12:33 PM in response to Political Plagiarism

The 2 aren't mutually exclusive: He talked to Rezko at an event and later Rezko accompanied him on a property tour. Point is, neither the conversation nor the property tour was illegal. Obama's bid on that property was the highest offer the owner had. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a_9sOMpy91Js&refer=us

Posted at February 19, 2008 12:29 PM in response to Obama caught lying

Wow. You have no idea of how much cancer treatments can cost.

Posted at February 19, 2008 12:19 PM in response to Barack Obama's Mother Ad

Richmond,
The Joe Biden plagiarism issue drove him out of the presidential race in 1988 because Biden plagiarized a biographical speech. Biden took British politician Neil Kinnoch's life story speech and used it as a sort of fill in the blanks template. "Why am I the first (Kinnoch/Biden) . . . " http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/plagiarism.html

Posted at February 19, 2008 12:16 PM in response to Words don't matter? "It depends on what the meaning of is, is." Bill Clinton.

Nobody is buying that "top 100 lawyers" nonsense any more. Her husband had to put the arm on Jim MacDougal to get her some legal work.

Its as embarassing as tht "women's organization" that TWICE gave Bill Clinton their award, as though they have no common sense to understand that Clinton's having sex with employees was a bad thing for women's opportunities.

Posted at August 25, 2007 9:54 AM in response to Brzezinski Endorses Obama; Calls Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy "Very Conventional"

Thanks ben. I see it as a strategic vote. The Congressional Democrats will be stronger without a reprise of the Clinton polarization. IMO, Romney is going to be the nominee for the Republicans and I think he will be happy to go along with the Congressional Democrats and he won't be keen on starting wars.

Posted at June 15, 2007 9:47 AM in response to Presidential Politics

Thats how I see it, too. I remember the debate before Gulf War I - Biden, Kerry, Dodd all voted against that one. What happened? The Clinton years. Clinton made it acceptable for Democrats to be warmongers. And here we are. For Bill Clinton and the Democrats who went along with Bush on this Iraq War, it was all for short term, self-serving politics and IMO the country would have been better off if Bush the Elder had been reelected. We - the USA - were better off with a Democratic party that had a natural antiwar take on the world.

Posted at June 15, 2007 9:38 AM in response to Presidential Politics

I don't know much about Bloomberg but he's not at all comparable to Ross Perot. Perot had a national following for many years before '92. I remember Brian Lamb, C-SPAN CEO, said (sometime during the 90's) that before '92, before he ever became a candidate for president, the most requested C-SPAN transcripts were Ross Perot speeches.

I don't think Bloomberg is a national figure or even well known beyond the NYC metro area.

Posted at June 14, 2007 3:17 PM in response to Presidential Politics

I don't think Perot got a single electoral vote in '92 when he got almost 20% of the popular vote. Its a 2 party system if you want to have a say in who wins but I can understand why someone would vote 3rd party to make a statement of "no confidence" in both of the major party candidates.

Posted at June 14, 2007 3:13 PM in response to Presidential Politics

Oh, come on. The Democrats enabled Bush. They look really bad for going along with the Iraq War, especially the Democratic Senators. Remember back in '91 how they all patted themselves on the back for "The Senate's finest hour" debating the first Gulf War under the far more credible Bush the Elder? What happened? How the hell did they go along with this? Remember Gephardt standing next to Bush and beaming at him? Thats a scene seared into my memory. And how they all love crazy warmonger Lieberman.

Posted at June 14, 2007 3:05 PM in response to Presidential Politics