Yup. I think all this was intentional by the Trump folks. Done to highlight the fact that Michelle Obama might say the words, but doesn't come through. Such as giving respect to others, etc. Michelle is disrespectful of our nation, our allies, law-abiding folks, etc. Trump got people thinking about the words Michelle mentioned in 2008, that was parroted off a teleprompter but words that were meaningless coming from her.
I’m both angry and discouraged that Melania or anyone on the Trump campaign staff would be so stupid as to plagiarize a passage from Michelle Obama — of all people! By the time I was twelve-years-old I had enough sense to know the difference between using a common expression (such as “your word is your bond”) and copying an entire passage, just changing a few words.
“There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech. These were common words and values...,” Manafort said. “To think that she’d be cribbing Michelle Obama’s words is crazy.”
Yeah, sure. I’m dumbfounded that they’d copy from her speech too, but it obviously happened.
Not that copying a few lines in the speech of the nominee’s wife has much importance compared with the important issues that face us — and, of course, the Democrats have plagiarized in the past too, most notably, Biden — but it’s of vital importance that Hillary Clinton be defeated in November. That the Trump campaign would give the opposition an opportunity for criticism in what should have been a risk-free speech doesn’t inspire confidence. How are we going to win an election when we have people involved in the campaign who are so stupid that they’d copy a passage from Michelle Obama (and others who transparently lie about it)?
The only consolation I have is that the Democrats do foolish things too. They have the media to cover for them, though.