Melania Trump’s Speech Bears Striking Similarities to Michelle Obama’s 2008 Address

NY Times ^ | 7/19/2016 | MAGGIE HABERMAN

[napscoordinator]

Why? Because I stuck up for myself after you cursed me out for nothing. My gosh you are upset because I disagree with you? There is nothing in the Conservative book that says I have to agree with some spouse on plagiarizing.

[petitfour]

I didn’t. You called others those words. Or you copied words without putting quotes around them or italicizing.

[Lazamataz]

(btw to set the record straight I think I was one of the original Trumpsters.... I felt, originally, that Trump or Cruz would be acceptable, but I always favored Trump due to his interest in a wall. And as so many of us did, we eventually found that Cruz would NOT be our second choice.)

[Chgogal]

I think you need to post a pic of that crazy ass ghost on the subway in the movie Ghost. Remember the one who yelled, “Get off my train!”?

[proust]

“Or you copied words without putting quotes around them or italicizing.”

Sounds like plagiarism.

[Empireoftheatom48]

You are so wrong, I would like to use stronger language!

[Reddy]

Yes, New Yorker. Sorry.

Still, quite a coincidence.

[rktman]

She looked ‘slightly’ better than mookie as well. Bwaahahahahaha! Hell, I look better than mookie.

[sargon]

Your behavior most closely resembles that of a disingenuous concern troll.

I can't believe you're waxing so hysterical about such a objectively trivial thing.

Try to see if you can still bring yourself to vote Trump!

[Lazamataz]

Can we stop the carping and discuss my brilliant theory in post 167? I think Sarah Hurwitz wrote both speeches.

Thanks for pointing that out!

Does not change the fact that napscoordinator has become my hobby, but yeah, if Hurwitz wrote both speeches, that would be a huge factor here.

[Pinkbell]

She had help with the speech. Jason Miller from the Trump campaign released a statement saying a team of writers helped her w/ the speech, so someone screwed up.

[chris37]

He’s making me really angry, not going to lie.

I will end this post right there though, since I rode the lighting recently, I don’t want to tempt fate.

[napscoordinator]

A wife doesn’t change my mind on voting for Trump. That would never happen. He didn’t do anything wrong.

[Chgogal]

Yeah, all Trump has to say is, “My wife never said, “This is the first time in my life I am proud of my country.”

That will shut them all up.

[AndyTheBear]

Michelle said it in the middle of her 2008 speech and they are too similar to be a coincidence.

I checked for a similar third source for a while that they might have both come from but did not find it. Possibly I missed it...but if it is somewhere I did not find it in a quick Google search.

My guess is Melania's speech writer screwed up...and its hard to reckon it was an accident.

[anton]

The only reason to care about this is that the black lady with the big ass may have said something intelligent in 2008 which comes as a surprise.

[napscoordinator]

That’s true. I wouldn’t doubt he says something like that.

[Chgogal]

Especially since Michelle is the author of this gem: “For the first time in my life I am proud of my country.”

[proust]

I don’t want to be that speech writer right now.

[867V309]

...Melania has gone down the tubes in my thoughts. It is a nasty thing for her to do.

seriously? NASTY?

I think that sentiment betrays your FR persona. No real Trump supporter would portray Trump's wife as nasty over a thing like this.