[SamAdams76]

Seems like another lifetime ago but in 1988, Biden was forced from the race due to plagiarism. He copied many parts of a Neil Kinnock speech in one of his and then it came to light that he also lifted phrases from Robert Kennedy and Humbert Humphrey speeches.

Nobody under the age of 45 would even know about this.

[laconic]

I would like to see him pick Nancy Pelosi as his VP; then the Dems would have two senile, doddering dolts running together with a combined age of near 160.

[elcid1970]

I remember 1988 well. There was Biden’s plagiarism, Gary Hart & Monkey Business, the start of Rush Limbaugh because the `fairness doctrine’ expired the year before, Iran-Contra and the crucifixion of Lt Col North, etc. A busy year.

[gcparent]

Didn’t Joe plagiarize in college, too?

[untenured]

Nobody under the age of 45 would even know about this.

Or care, given the way politicians have defined deviancy down since. A mistake like this would seem positively saintly.