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knewshound
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Posted on 08/27/2008 2:34:35 PM PDT by Syncro
(You know its bad, when the hair transplant surgeons today put out a press release saying that they could do better!
I vote that Biden shall be henceforth known as “Plugs.”
If this were merely a failure to cite Kinnock, why was Labor Leader Neil Kinnock talking about the Biden family and the coal mines of Pennsylvania?There are now two other posts of this weeks column.
Biden not only lifted -- as The New York Times reported -- Kinnock's "phrases, gestures and lyrical Welsh syntax intact," but also his entire life story.
Dismissing his theft of Kinnock's speech, Biden said at the time: "So what if I didn't attribute it to Kinnock? I can't quite understand this. If I was making up who I was, then that's one thing."
But Biden was making up who he was. And he was making up what kind of country this is.
The whole point of Kinnock's speech was to denounce the English class structure, where his grandfather couldn't get ahead, despite his talents. Thus, Kinnock concluded by saying his parents and grandparents couldn't advance "because there was no platform upon which they could stand."
That has never been true in this country. We have no class structure. People do get ahead by being smart and working hard.
The other side of the coin is that those born well are perfectly capable of falling from their perch of privilege, as expressed in the peculiarly American expression: "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations." Which is precisely what happened to the Biden family.
According to Vice Plagiarist Biden's own autobiography, his father was to the manor born. Biden's grandfather was an executive with the American Oil Co., and his father had all the advantages in life. "My dad," Biden writes in "Promises to Keep," "grew up well polished by gentlemanly pursuits. He would ride to the hounds, drive fast, fly airplanes. He knew good clothes, fine horses, the newest dance steps."
But, in the blunt language of the Vanity Fair election blog, "he pissed away his fortune and Joe and his siblings grew up in a decidedly, and proudly, working-class Catholic home."
So why was Biden concluding his Kinnock-"inspired" speech with clenched fist, claiming that his family "didn't have a platform upon which to stand." The executive offices at the American Oil Co. sound like a pretty good platform.
The problem wasn't that Biden's father didn't have a platform, but that he fell off the platform. Far from sharing Kinnock's life story, the Biden family would have benefited from a strict British class system that holds up talentless aristocrats while keeping down the talented low-born.
No wonder the platform of the Democratic Party is to destroy capitalism: It allows people to get ahead on their talents and not their names.
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With the "search" function not working, we will probably get more.
Biden’s history of lies and lifted quotes
Chicago Sun-Times | 8-26-08 | Carol Felsenthal
Posted on 09/01/2008 3:06:31 PM PDT by 444Flyer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072626/posts
More Biden plagiarism, or am I looking too deep?
Joe Biden/Jack Welch
Posted on 08/29/2008 6:54:17 PM PDT by friedyj
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2070947/posts
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