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Kerry Plagerizes Communist Poet to Concoct Campaign Theme
www.crushkerry.com ^ | 5.120.04 | www.crushkerry.com

Posted on 05/20/2004 9:43:49 AM PDT by Kerry Crusher

The Kerry campaign sure is starting to look like the Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight. According to the Drudge Report today, John Kerry's campaign has settle on the words "Let America be America Again" as their campaign theme.

There's only one problem. Kerry plagerized the phrase from a poem written by black writer Langston Hughes. The punchline that follows in the poem reads, "America never was America to me."

Even worse for the embattled presidential candidate is the fact that Langston Hughes was a well-known Communist who once added an extra S to USA in a poem. The extra S stood for Soviet. In the same piece, Hughes also wrote, "good-morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on."

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1 posted on 05/20/2004 9:43:51 AM PDT by Kerry Crusher
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To: Kerry Crusher

whoops.


2 posted on 05/20/2004 9:47:02 AM PDT by Pikamax
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To: Kerry Crusher

"Oops." publically, "It plays to my base." privately.


3 posted on 05/20/2004 9:47:53 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (You make me feel warm all over. No...wait...I'm soaking in a puddle of my own urine.)
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To: Grampa Dave; OXENinFLA; biblewonk

Ping.


4 posted on 05/20/2004 9:49:11 AM PDT by crushkerry (Visit www.crushkerry.com to see John Kerry's positions filleted - and to see our lovely spokesmodel))
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To: Pikamax

I love the sentiment, but "plagerized" s/b "plagiarized"


5 posted on 05/20/2004 9:49:51 AM PDT by saveliberty (Liberal= in need of therapy, but would rather ruin lives of those less fortunate to feel good)
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To: Kerry Crusher

Perfectly appropriate.


6 posted on 05/20/2004 9:50:18 AM PDT by atomicpossum (I give up! Entropy, you win!)
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To: Kerry Crusher

That's not plagiarizm, that's paraphrasing - FReepers do it all the time on too many threads to count.


7 posted on 05/20/2004 9:51:51 AM PDT by Old Sarge
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To: crushkerry; newgeezer

Where do you find this stuff! This is just too good!


8 posted on 05/20/2004 9:55:57 AM PDT by biblewonk (WELL I SPEAK LOUD, AND I CARRY A BIGGER STICK...AND I USE IT TOO.)
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To: biblewonk

Our vast research staff - both of us.


9 posted on 05/20/2004 9:56:42 AM PDT by crushkerry (Visit www.crushkerry.com to see John Kerry's positions filleted - and to see our lovely spokesmodel))
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ouch...nice catch


10 posted on 05/20/2004 9:58:09 AM PDT by rbmillerjr ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike off their heads” Surat Mohammed:4)
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To: Kerry Crusher

That poem reads like the Dem platform - socialism through and through.


11 posted on 05/20/2004 9:58:28 AM PDT by watchin
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To: Kerry Crusher

What's the surprise? They got their economic platform from Karl Marx...


12 posted on 05/20/2004 10:05:46 AM PDT by atomicpossum (I give up! Entropy, you win!)
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To: lodwick; Cuttnhorse; operation clinton cleanup; Servant of the 9; catpuppy; null and void; ...
Even worse for the embattled presidential candidate is the fact that Langston Hughes was a well-known Communist who once added an extra S to USA in a poem. The extra S stood for Soviet. In the same piece, Hughes also wrote, "good-morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on."

Well there he goes again .. shooting himself in the foot

13 posted on 05/20/2004 10:07:21 AM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
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To: Kerry Crusher; StriperSniper; Mo1; Peach; Howlin; kimmie7; 4integrity; BigSkyFreeper; ...
More on Kerry's new COMMIE theme.

14 posted on 05/20/2004 10:09:54 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: Mo1

Mo..... an FYI.I am without a computer.mine is in the shop.again....keep pinging me ok.I don't know when I'll be back online fully.....I'm at the library....right now.


15 posted on 05/20/2004 10:11:04 AM PDT by Dog (In Memory of Pat Tillman ---- ---- ---- American Hero.)
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Will do and hope your computer is feeling better soon


16 posted on 05/20/2004 10:14:46 AM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
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For what it is costing me.....I hope I feel better soon.:-)


17 posted on 05/20/2004 10:16:26 AM PDT by Dog (In Memory of Pat Tillman ---- ---- ---- American Hero.)
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To: saveliberty

Yeah. We typed it quick. We fixed the typo.


18 posted on 05/20/2004 10:21:00 AM PDT by Kerry Crusher
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a well-known Communist who once added an extra S to USA in a poem.

I sometimes make mention of the US(ocialist)SA. Doesn't matter who's running D.C. We keep marching down that path.

19 posted on 05/20/2004 10:23:02 AM PDT by newgeezer (ride a bicycle, carpool, live closer to your job, give up your guzzler, ... DO it and quit whining!)
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20 posted on 05/20/2004 10:28:39 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (What left wing lies of the media, the DNC and foreign enemies will we expose today?)
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