Posted on 09/02/2008 3:47:31 PM PDT by Paul Revere 76
Veteran political analysts wondered why Obama would release the news on the slowest news day of the week, and sandwiched right before the DNC convention. Revealing Joe Biden’s name in this manner assured the least amount of news coverage possible on his choice. Why?
It was a very long time ago when Biden first ran for President in the 1987/1988 presidential race. He was forced to exit the race in shame when disturbing plagiarism charges were proven against him amid charges of lying.
What launched the public inquiry into Joe Biden’s words was a debate in September 1987 in which Biden stole the words of Neil Kinnock who was head of the British Labour Party.
Neil Kinnock had said earlier: “Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?” He then pointed to his wife in the audience and said “Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick?”
Joe Biden said during debate: “I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university?” He pointed to his wife in the audience and said “Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I’m the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?”
A little theft happens from time to time in politics as in life. Critics concluded it would have been better if Biden had not lied by saying he was just “thinking” as he was coming over there. The lines were obviously rehearsed as he had heard them before. The press and Dukakis campaign got on the plagiarism story and discovered that Joe Biden has a history as a plagiarizer and liar.
At Syracuse Law School, it was discovered that Joe Biden got an F-grade in a class for boldly copying enormous chunks of someone else’s law review article.
Biden attempted to excuse the plagiarism by claiming it was a “mistake of youth.” He went before the school Deans and pleaded that they not expel him completely. He was allowed to retake the course and the cheating grade was later expunged from his record.
In response to the shocking revelation, Biden released all of his school transcripts including written evaluation by his teachers. The Syracuse transcripts revealed a candidate who had generally poor grades and only mixed reviews from his professors.
Apparently Biden has a history of supplementing his perceived failings by borrowing from others or simply exaggerating or lying. The final straw in his first presidential race was when he lied about the number of degrees he had received, the reason for his scholarship, and his graduating rank in class. Joe Biden was near the bottom of his class despite having that F-grade removed for plagiarism.
The voters will decide for themselves if Joe Biden is worthy of the VP office. The 1987/88 election run was a long time ago, while perhaps only the pundits remember Joe Biden’s shame.
And if the public can forgive Biden, they will have to decide if they want two copycats in the White House given a similar problem by Obama that was largely ignored by the press
Idea - maybe this is for Jim Robinson to stew on:
Maybe have a couple of threads dedicated exclusively to dirt on Obama and Biden. I don’t mean fabricated or false stuff (that is the methodology of the left). What I am suggesting is where thoroughly checked-out facts can be posted about each of them - I am sure such a list would be quite handy. A close reign would need to be kept on such lists - if something is actually proven to be false - then it should be removed. If they change their minds on a position or throw one of their terrorist friends under the bus - that could be noted as well...
But we need a comprehensive source of such info.
He's lucky he didn't get immediately expelled from law school. Most graduate programs expell students for plagerism no matter how high or low a student's grades or class ranking.
Yep. Happened to one of my classmates when I was getting an MA at U of Chicago. Took a paragraph (and much of his ideas) from a five year old article on Salvadorean economic development. Our prof had an incredible memory and busted him. The kid wound up at University of Maryland, I believe.
The headline is both factually and grammatically incorrect. There were MULTIPLE Biden plagiarism scandals which have resurfaced. He was a plagiarist when a student at Syracuse Law School and a plagiarist when he ran for the Democrat nomination in 1988. My guess is that if you turn the clock back to when he was an undergraduate, you will find he was a plagiarist back then too. That’s why Obummer wants him on the ticket. He never had a single thought of his own, but he can memorize and plagiarize other’s thoughts and spew them out during “debate”.
It isn't plagiarism when they're on the campaign payroll. Whose thoughts will Obama and Biden be memorizing and spewing out? Toads and snakeheads whose names will never be on a ballot, but they know how to brew pure political venom: Carville, Begala, Shalala, Brazile.
That's right.
What effect did Obama's admitted drug use have on the genetics of his children (if they are in fact his children)? I expect CNN, CBS and MSNBC will be launching investigations into these issues right away!
Looks like the 20 year old scandal has surfaced again. :’)
I’m looking forward to the day after the election when he says, “Well, you won’t have Joe Biden to kick around anymore.”
:’D That’s gotta be the coooooolest Biden-plagiarist joke I’ve ever read.
I would imagine the response would be something similar to, “Yeah... so what?” In the party of liars, cheaters and thieves this really won’t make a difference. And I’m not suprised that this is the first that I’m hearing of this. I guess the MSM was more interested in Sarah’s daughter’s boyfriend’s mother.
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