Ask NOT what plagiarism can do for your campaign! Ask what your campaign can do for plagiarism!
Posted on 09/10/2008 4:08:32 PM PDT by Pondo
Barack Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comment grabbed all the headlines Wednesday, but a line he delivered just before that remark is leading critics to wonder whether the Democratic presidential candidate’s speechwriter is a cartoonist.
On Tuesday, for the third time in four days, Obama borrowed a lengthy bubble quote from Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles. He did not acknowledge the origin of the quote the first time he used it and credited the cartoon only after the Post contacted the Obama campaign to ask about the first use.
“John McCain says he’s about change, too. And so, I guess his whole angle is, ‘Watch out, George Bush. Except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics … we’re really gonna shake things up in Washington,’” Obama said during a rally Tuesday in Lebanon, Va.
As it turns out, Toles’ cartoon in The Washington Post last Friday depicted McCain addressing the White House with the caption: “Watch out, Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and Supreme Court appointments and Rove-style politics, we’re coming in there to shake things up!”
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His campaign must be borrowing from Wiley E Coyote too.
we are half way there. Now date the “ pig in lipstick” timeline.
Well, he did pick Biden, after all.
Plagiarists of a feather flock together.
Guess I'd better credit the movie The Wizard of Oz.
His whole campaign has been like a never ending cartoon, so I am not surprised.
I don’t think the guy has ever had an original thought about anything. I mean, how is it he was editor of the Harvard Law Review yet never authored anything in his own name? Empty suit, indeed.
I just read on Fox News that Biden said Hillary might have been a better VP pick. When your VP says someone else would have been a choice, something is wrong I would think. I guess I just don’t want to get my hopes up because the thought of that man being President scares the snot out of me.
Ask NOT what plagiarism can do for your campaign! Ask what your campaign can do for plagiarism!
“He did not acknowledge the origin of the quote the first time he used it”.......
.......until he got caught riden’ dirty.
I think it was Rush this morning that said he had a conversation with a tenured prof. who taught at Ha’vad for 14 or 40 years or some very long time. The prof said that to characterize a Harvard education as a “great education” is completely wrong. He said the school indoctrinates and the rest is all about networking with other wealthy libs. I have no doubt that 0bama was an affirmative-action student and none-too-bright to boot. But I’m also beginning to think that a Harvard degree doesn’t necessarily mean your smart.
That seals it! The Dems have locked up the plagiarist and liar vote.
A Harvard degree doesn't necessarily mean my smart what? :-)
PUMA”S are all over this. They say he also stole a speech about factory worker overseas and Hannity play it side by side today.
My personal experience working on Wall Street is that most Harvard grads are utterly useless...they’re dead weight.
Now we need to know if plagarism is catching, genetic or just Dimocrat.
The magic negro borrowed some lines from Patrick Duval when he was first beginning his run for the presidency.
It might have been a FReeper that blew the whistle. There was a post earlier today regarding this. One of the posters announced that he had alerted Brit Hume.
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