OK, let’s see if we can clear this up. Vaughn Ward based a pretty good chunk of his speech announcing his candidacy on Obama’s speech during the 2004 Democrat convention. Did he just read Obama’s speech straight through? Of course not; he took out inappropriate stuff (such as references to Kerry), added some additional lines (that either he or his speechwriter wrote or, perhaps, he took from some other speech he liked) and made slught modifications to some of Obama’s words. But it was easily identifiable as Obama’s speech by those familiar with both speeches, as had been pointed out by others prior to Baumbach. All Baumbach did was edit the speeches to take out the parts that Ward didn’t copy from Obama and leave the parts that he did copy. That’s not a dirty trick or video doctoring or putting words in Ward’s mouth, it’s separating the wheat from the chaff. So Baumbach wants to pat himself on the back for his editing job? Well, he has the right to be proud—he did a great job, producing a very professional end product that made it clear to everyone exactly hom much of Ward’s speech was taken from Obama’s. Ward has no one to blame but himself for lifting so much of his speech from Obama’s.
And I don’t understand your comment about Labradior probably turning out to be as disappointing as Sali. Sali had one of the most conservative voting records in the nation during his brief stay in Congress, and the only disappointin. thing about him is that he lost to Minnick because RINOs and anti-Sali conservatives voted for Minnick.
Bill Sali was excellent on the issues, and his loss stemmed more from personality than anything else. He was perceived by many as a flake. Hopefully, Labrador will be similar in voting record without being similar in personality.
Sali lost in 2008 because he didn’t bother to campaign. He thought he didn’t have to. I voted for him, but apparently the majority of voters in District 1 figured he just didn’t want the job.