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The accusation seems very weak to me. He did the disclosure The article says: “At first Biden would credit Kinnock when he quoted him. But at some point he failed to offer the attribution.”

We also know that most of the candidates, presidents and so on have their speechwriters, which will be considered also a serious offense if done by teachers, students or scholars, that their work is attributed to a ghostwriter.

I never was a fan of having the requirement of students write a paper - not for the purpose of pass or failing a class.

The college plagerism was bad but relatively remote in time.  I would not attack a guy forever over that--its not like he drove off a bridge while drunk and got some young female staffer drowned (and because of family connections avoided all criminal liability).  As for the speech plagerism, it was sloppy but again it was a speech and that is not the context where you have to footnote or cite everything you say. 

But Obama has other problems. 

Plugs Biden and Michele Obama can’t fill those annoying holes in Barack’s resume and past associations. 

But hey Barack was just a kid when Bill Ayers did what he did.  Look at this:  http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2008/05/bill-ayers-stepping-on-us-flag-in-2001.html

Why in 2001, Barack Obama was only...uh...40 or 41.

”...drawn little comment since his selection as Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate”

This has been endlessly commented on for over 20-years; most recently during Biden’s aborted run for the nomination earlier this year. Really, can much more be said about it?

He has a 36-year record in the Senate and this the issue that is the most important to focus on relative to his fitness to serve? Is this the standard for which we will judge all candidates?

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/08/figures-michelle-obama-quotes-lines.html

I do not believe Michele was sending coded messages to the leftists last night, but if she did lift a quote from Saul Alinsky, is that plagerism?  What exactly did Plugs Biden whisper in her ear the other day?

I think the last completely original political speech was by Lincoln at Gettysburg.

Yawn.

If I remember correctly, DKG was accused of plagiarism in the book that had 900 or so footnotes, which told me she didn’t intend to copy.

We probably have something better to talk about, say the economy in the crapper or the troops in Iraq.

Joe--you’re so witty; I’m sure your hero McComb-Over is LHAO.