Posted on 01/26/2011 3:34:28 PM PST by No One Special
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what can be said of plagiarism? President Obama’s second State of the Union address contained enough recycled ideas and lines lifted from speeches of others to make historians wince. I suppose this is what one does when one not only has nothing new to say, but is required by custom and Constitution to come forth with a report of some kind by a certain time and day.
Had Obama or his writers been considerate enough to have informed listeners of where some of the president’s best lines and offered-up ideas originated, the speech might be remembered for its cutting and pasting of great and not-so-great moments of the past performance of others. After quoting Robert Kennedy early on, Obama tried to have his listeners believe that everything else he said that we might remember were his or his writers’ creations. Had the president submitted the text of his second State of the Union Address in the form of a college term paper, he would have been sent forthwith to the nearest academic dean. Once again, our public affairs are such that we have one standard for presidents and another for undergraduates. Now is as good a time as any to let Obama’s listeners in on what the late Paul Harvey would have termed “the rest of the story.”
Early in his address, Obama said that he wanted the nation he leads to be a "light to the world." The last president who set such a mission for the nation he led, and in those exact words, was Woodrow Wilson.
Obama’s concept of the “American family” may well have had its origins in the first State of the State address New York Governor Mario Cuomo delivered in 1983.
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Who did he plagiarize it from?
MLK?
Ooops
But it is plagiarism to do the “echoing” without giving proper credit/citation.
Bull. You sound like a tired, old school marm. People do it ALL THE TIME. Reagan didn’t cite John Gillespe Magee in his Challenger speech? No.
LOL!
But it is plagiarism to do the “echoing” without giving proper credit/citation.
For those of you who don’t know, Reagan did not write “”They slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touched the face of God.”
and this statement is from US News and World Report! i’m stuned
But one thing that came from him and him only...
Riding the train you won’t have to get patted down LOL everyone.
What does he think no terrorist are going to touch his
train project...
If the words are with copyright and taken without attribution, then yes, I believe it can be a crime.
Swiping uncopyrighted (if that's the word) lines from others' speeches at a wholesale rate is, if not a crime, an example of a character and honesty vacuum.
complete with line item references to the original speeches..
0bambi and teleprompters outed again.
Someone posted “When I see BO’s lips move, I know he’s lying.” When will people wise up to the fact that BO Plenty is an empty suit.
:D
Mel’s Hole is more believable than that SOTU speech
I keep wondering how Obama kept a straight face and didn’t fall out from embarrassment when he talked about this:
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“Obama informed his listeners that salmon comes under the jurisdiction of one department when swimming in fresh water and under another when swimming in salt water.”
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Did he think we would forget THIS?!!!
June 4, 2009
A prominent regional conservationist was appointed the first-ever Great Lakes czar Wednesday, making good on President Barack Obama’s campaign promise to elevate the health of the Great Lakes as a national issue.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/46866622.html
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
CHICAGO — The White House has tapped a former leader of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Indiana Wildlife Federation as the Asian carp czar to oversee the federal response to keeping the invasive species out of the Great Lakes.
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2010/09/obama_names_carp_czar_to_overs.html
Fool, he is a damn fool.
Art. II, Sec. 3.
Until the 20th Century, the SOTU was generally delivered in writing.
— Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution
He could have written a letter and saved most of us a bunch of time.
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