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To: LarryLied
The Kennedy quotes are the best...

Well, at least we know that Kennedy wrote Profiles In Courage all on his own. BTW, a joke I used to tell was that some folks in Boston sound so profound that even the hookers there say things like:

"Ask not what your John can do for you but what you can do for your John.

16 posted on 03/21/2002 6:07:15 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
Remember that garbled speech Rush played over and over of Ted Kennedy endorsing Clinton in 1996? Don't have the exact words and ending gibberish Teddy spoke do you?
17 posted on 03/21/2002 8:29:33 PM PST by LarryLied
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To: PJ-Comix
Actually, JFK stole that line from Cicero--who stole it from--I don't know--Moses, maybe?

The fact is that there are very few political speeches that have not been cobbled together (plagiarized) from those that went before.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was an original. And Harry Truman had some great original lines -- like telling the critic who dissed his daughter's singing voice that he was an SOB.

Today, you'd be hard pressed to find original oratory anywhere. Although "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" is quite quotable.

19 posted on 03/22/2002 1:48:05 PM PST by Palladin
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