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Plagiarism (0.00 / 0)

Biden's plagiarism scandal, combined with Obama's plagiarism scandal would turn them into a GOP shooting gallery. Biden Obama -- all they have are fancy words, and they're not even their own words.

I don't know the subtleties of selecting a VP nominee, but Biden seems to enhance one of Obama's weaknesses, without supporting any of his strengths. Biden seems to me to be a bad pick.

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by: ergotist @ Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 11:37:13 AM CDT

eh (4.00 / 1)

McCain has his own plagiarism story, or at least is embellishing his POW tales by ripping off somebody else's war tales.  

John McCain John McCain John McCain

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by: kbuck @ Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 11:53:59 AM CDT

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Do You Have A Fork? (0.00 / 0)

I'll stab it into my own eye when the press runs with that story.

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by: ergotist @ Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 12:03:35 PM CDT

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i have a fork for you (0.00 / 0)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...


John McCain or Barack Obama?

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by: tremayne @ Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 12:08:06 PM CDT

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wrong link (although it was raised in that chat) (0.00 / 0)

http://religionblog.dallasnews...

still not on the "formal" news pages

John McCain or Barack Obama?

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by: tremayne @ Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 12:15:30 PM CDT

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I Mean Real Coverage (0.00 / 0)

These things always get coverage on page seventeen. I'm talking about real coverage. I'm talking about Tom Brokaw asking McCain about it to his face with God and everybody watching.

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by: ergotist @ Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 12:27:24 PM CDT

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Biden's story is old news (4.00 / 1)

Who cares about some ancient pseudo-scandal from 20 years ago? Really?  I mean, if that becomes a story then I guess we should turn Keating 5 into a story again.

It's old news and voters don't care about it.  Hell, they barely care about scandals that happened six months ago.

As long as Biden doesn't insult any minority groups, he'll be fantastic. He isn't a reinforcing pick, but he is a complementary pick.

Old Man McCain - Hatin' on McCain since 2008.

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by: existenz @ Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 12:30:37 PM CDT

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Who Cares Indeed? (0.00 / 0)

Ya, who cares what Barack's pals said 10 years ago, or what drugs he did 30 years ago, or who crashed a plane 50 years ago. That's all old news that never gets brought up anymore.

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by: ergotist @ Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 14:47:24 PM CDT

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Yeah, let's focus on the 80's... (0.00 / 0)

Biden quoted Neal Kinnock 17 times, and forgot to attribute the quote once.  Ooh, plagiarism!

McCain was one of the Keating 5, who got us into the whole S&L; debacle.  I know that Wikipedia isn't the best source, but let's take a trip on Memory Lane:

McCain and Keating had become personal friends following their initial contacts in 1981. Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in lawful political contributions from Keating and his associates. In addition, McCain's wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensley had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating's expense, sometimes aboard Keating's jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating's opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay.

Of course, I'm assuming that anyone in the MSM would go there.  Silly me.


War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength; McCain/Palin 2008

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by: cheesehead @ Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 13:33:17 PM CDT

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Mock It All You Want (0.00 / 0)

But the traditional media has made more hay out of lesser scandals.

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by: ergotist @ Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 14:48:12 PM CDT

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