Did Obama pull a Biden? (Did Obama 'borrow' a story from someone else?)

hotair.com ^ | September 8, 2008 | Ed Morrissey

[Free ThinkerNY]

Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign got derailed in 1987 when he plagiarized a speech by British Labour leader Neil Kinnock, including Kinnock’s personal anecdotes of his family. According to Steve Janke, Barack Obama may have followed in his running mate’s footsteps to some degree when telling an anecdote about workers thrown out of work by free trade. Jack Layton, the leader of Canada’s Leftist NDP, tells a similar story — and says he wrote about it to Obama:

[hsrazorback1]

One of the roles of POTUS that gets overlooked is that of a talent scout. Take a look at the VP picks, and you will get a glimpse of the Cabinet appointments.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Well, we know he plagiarized his campaign slogan....

[Emperor Palpatine]

Oh God......

Bambi as Simon Cowell........

Oh, the pain.....the pain.......

[tillacum]

And when nobama delivers a stolen speech, he has to read it from the teleprompter, because he probably can’t remember the way it was presented. lol

[ichabod1]

It is funny that Biden ended up being the running mate because he’s the one that pegged him first. They want him because he’s a clean, articulate black guy. The first one, chortle chortle. Suck on that Jesse and Al.

[King Hawk]

Political speeches are such jive one way or another.

[Watershed]

Joe Biden from acceptance speech: The American people are ready. I am ready. Barack is ready. This is his time; this is our time; this is America's time.

From "GOONIES": Down here it's our time, it's OUR time down here

JOE...YOU GOONIE!!!!

[mrmargaritaville]

well considering that his whole campaign is a rewarmed Axelrod special from the Deval Patrick run for govenor this should suprise no one.

[Watershed]

This story should be a lot bigger... Have you heard about this anywhere else?

[MHGinTN]

Obamessiah doesn't write his own speeches that he reads from teleprompters. He isn't likely to even know of this speech in Canada. It is more proof that he is not what he appears, that he is not running this political campaign, and that if elected he will not be the one making decisions in or out of the USA. Obama is the infamous 'hollowman', a more competent version of Chauncey Gardener from the movie Being There only because he can read aloud well and smiles alot.

[mass55th]

I doubt O’Reilly would have even bothered, had he known. Bill would rather “chat” with Obama than seriously interview him.

[mass55th]

"i’m at a lost for words, the ONE would never do anything like that!!"

And to think, as the Obamessiah, all he'd have had to do was read the guys mind to get the story.

[mass55th]

"This story should be a lot bigger... Have you heard about this anywhere else?"

Nope.

[No Truce With Kings]

It’s obvious — Jack Layton retroactively stole the story from Obama. There was this time machine you see . . .