On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:34:43 -0400, Governor Swill says...
> Republicans lie, cheat and steal. It's what they do.
Is that how this goes... a Republican gets "caught" plagiarizing, and you
fucked-in-the-head liberals completely forget history?
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Seven Democrats Who Were Caught For Plagiarism, Including Obama And Biden
By Aaron Bandler
Melania Trump, wife of real estate mogul Donald Trump, has dominated the news
headlines due to the revelation that her speech at the Republican National
Convention plagiarized a portion of First Lady Michelle Obama's speech at the
Democratic National Convention in 2008. While that's certainly a problem, it's
worth noting that plenty of Democrats have been guilty of plagiarism as well.
Here are seven of them.
1. President Barack Obama.
During his first presidential campaign, Obama's speeches featured portions that
were almost identical from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's (D) speeches.
Here is part of a speech from Patrick in 2006:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' -
just words. Just words. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself' - just words.
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your
country' - just words. "I have a dream' - just words," Patrick said in 2006.
And here is part of a speech from Obama in 2008:
"Don't tell me words don't matter! "I have a dream." Just words. "We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." Just words. "We
have nothing to fear but fear itself." Just words, just speeches," Obama said
in his speech.
Obama also appears to have used similar language borrowed from Patrick in a
2007 speech:
https://youtu.be/vACOtmwckGc
Patrick in June 2006, at the Massachusetts Democratic party convention: "I am
not asking anybody to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on
your own aspirations."
https://youtu.be/FgctsioisJg
Obama one year later, as quoted in USA Today: "I am not asking anyone to take a
chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations."
Obama later acknowledged it would have been better to provide attribution to
Patrick in his speech when the Clinton campaign called him out on it in 2008,
but deflected the blame onto her, saying: "I noticed Senator Clinton, on
occasion, has used words of mine as well."
Patrick attempted to exonerate his buddy Obama by saying "he shared language
from his campaign with Mr. Obama's speech-writers" in the previous summer, but
ABC News pointed out at the time that Obama used the "Just Words" passage
before the summer of 2007:
"'We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men are created equal." Those
are just words," Obama was quoted as saying in a March 19, 2007 New Republic
story. " "I have a dream." Just words."
2. Vice President Joe Biden.
When Biden ran for president in 1988, his plagiarism of British politician Neil
Kinnock was exposed. Here is Kinnock:
Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to
university? [Pointing to his wife in the audience:] Why is Glenys the first
woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?
Was it because all our predecessors were thick?
And here's Biden:
I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the
first in his family ever to go to a university? [Pointing to his wife in the
audience:] Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is
the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and
mothers were not bright? Is it because I'm the first Biden in a thousand
generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the
rest?
https://youtu.be/0Rkoqglq9dU
Biden eventually had to drop out of the presidential race, as the plagiarism
scandal plagued his campaign. Columnist Jeff Lord has also accused Biden of
plagiarizing speeches from Robert F. Kennedy.
3. Former Sen. John Walsh (D-MT).
In 2014, a New York Times report found that Walsh had plagiarized "an entire
page nearly word-for-word from a Harvard paper, and each of his six conclusions
is copied from a document from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
without attribution" in a 2007 paper he wrote to earn his master's degree at
the U.S. Army War College. Walsh initially deflected from the report by citing
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from serving in Iraq as a possible "factor" in
an interview with the Associated Press.
The Army War College determined that Walsh had in fact plagiarized his paper
and rescinded his master's degree. Walsh eventually dropped out of the 2014
Senate race as a result of his plagiarism.
4. Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA).
In 2015, Bera wrote a column in the Sacramento Bee in favor of the Trade
Promotion Authority bill; Buzzfeed determined that Bera duplicated statements
from Third Way, Business Roundtable and a White House economic report. Bera
eventually admitted to the plagiarism, via Breitbart:
After he was caught, Bera released a statement saying that his position
remained unchanged, but he added, "However, after an internal review of our
editing process, it has become clear that widely used and disseminated
statements made their way into the final draft, and for that I apologize. I
take full responsibility for this oversight and will be dealing with the
responsible staff internally."
Dan Morain, the Bee's editorial page editor, said, "It clearly is a work that
borrowed way too heavily from other peoples" work. I would expect better of
people who write op-eds."
5. Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke.
Burke, who ran against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) in 2014, was busted by
Buzzfeed for plagiarizing portions of her economic proposal from "Delaware Gov.
Jack Markell in 2008, Ward Cammack of Tennessee in 2009 and John Gregg of
Indiana in 2012," according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Burke, who attempted to minimize the controversy as "a relatively minor
mistake," blamed it on a consultant and fired him.
6. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D).
During the 2014 gubernatorial race, it was determined that parts of Wolf's
"policy on energy efficiency" were plagiarized from Johnson Controls, an energy
company in Wisconsin. Wolf severed ties with a consultant over the controversy.
7. Former Democratic senate candidate Gordon Ball.
Ball, who ran for the Senate in 2014 against Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN),
"appears to have plagiarized nearly every word on his issues pages from a vast
array of politicians including West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, Ohio Sen.
Sherrod Brown, North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth
Warren," according to Buzzfeed. Ball claimed he didn't know that the plagiarism
had taken place, even though Buzzfeed pointed out that he "used much of the
plagiarized text in an interview."
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Liberals Are Wimps (New Study Shocks Scientifc Community...
https://freedomwire.com/liberals-are-wimps-new-study-shocks-scientific-
community/
Liberal men are physically smaller and weaker than conservative men - and it's
measurable.
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Vice Admits Liberal Men are Weaker, Less Attractive than...
https://phillipschneider.com/vice-admits-liberal-men-are-weaker-less-
attractive-than-conservatives/
Vice Admits Liberal Men are Weaker, Less Attractive than Conservatives By
Phillip Schneider on August 11, 2020 ( Leave a comment ) While the flames of
the culture war rage, even far-left media publication Vice admits that liberal
men are weaker and less competent than conservatives.
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TRUTH: Why Liberals Are WEAKER Than Conservatives
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/truth-liberals-weaker-conservatives
TRUTH: Why Liberals Are WEAKER Than Conservatives. Speaking of weak liberals,
who can't even stand the sight of history: Texas Restaurant Defending
Controversial Sign Some Are Calling Racist - by Robert Gehl. A Texas restaurant
is under attack on social media for what many are calling its racist décor. The
neon sign hung at Cook's Garage...
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Science Proves That Liberals Are Crazier Than Conservatives
https://freedomwire.com/liberals-are-crazy/
Well, I recently came across a fantastic article about another study of
Liberals - except this time, instead of focusing on the weak males, it focuses
on the average Liberal woman instead. A Ph.D. candidate at Georgia State
University has analyzed the data out of a recent Pew Research Center poll, and
the results are amazing.
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Shocker: Study Shows Physically Weak Men Tend to be Liberal
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2017/05/26/shocker-study-shows-physically-
weak-men-tend-to-be-liberal-n72373
Shocker: Study Shows Physically Weak Men Tend to be Liberal. In news that will
surprise absolutely no one, a new study reveals that girly men are more likely
to favor socialist policies. The study, conducted by researchers at Brunel
University London, looked at the height, weight, physical strength, and bicep
circumference of 171 men, along...
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Liberalism Breeds Soft, Weak, Young "Men" - Louder With...
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/liberalism-breeds-soft-weak-young-men
by Steven Crowder I know some of you think when I say "liberalism breeds weak,
fat men," that I'm merely politicizing an issue to be polarizing. I assure you
that's not the case. Allow me five hundred words to make my case. I was a
chubby kid. Strike that, I was a jiggly shrimp. Skinny-fat. The kind of kid who
was relatively thin, yet managed to ma
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Why Liberals Are So Physically Monstrous And Repulsive...
https://www.returnofkings.com/118536/why-liberals-are-so-physically-monstrous-
and-repulsive
Liberals are not born uglier. They voluntarily remain ugly or become uglier to
fit a narrative. "Appearance is ideology". It takes a special kind of hypocrisy
to call something that is universally seen as ugly "beautiful" and vice-versa.
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Science says liberals, not conservatives, are psychotic
https://nypost.com/2016/06/09/science-says-liberal-beliefs-are-linked-to-
pyschotic-traits/
Jun 9, 2016 Turns out liberals are the real authoritarians. A political-science
journal that published an oft-cited study claiming conservatives were more
likely to show traits associated with "psychoticism"...
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12 Reasons Why Liberals And Progressives Will Always Be...
https://www.returnofkings.com/100887/12-reasons-why-liberals-and-progressives-
will-always-be-losers
Liberal men however are inexcusable, they are either effeminate enough to be
emotionally manipulated or are weak and yielding to social pressures. December
10, 2016 Take The Red Pill Don't forget that Liberal men are usually the
offspring of domineering feminists or divorced feminists and sometimes single
mothers.
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Men With Weak Upper Bodies Tend to Be Liberal - Physically Strong Men Tend to
Be Conservative
Men who are physically strong are more likely to take a right wing political
stance, while weaker men are inclined to support the welfare state, according
to a new study.
Researchers discovered political motivations may have evolutionary links to
physical strength.
Men's upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic
redistribution, according to the research.
The principal investigators - psychological scientists Michael Bang Petersen,
of Aarhus University in Denmark, and Daniel Sznycer, of the University of
California in the U.S., believe that the link may reflect psychological traits
that evolved in response to our early ancestral environments and continue to
influence behavior today.
Professor Petersen said: 'While many think of politics as a modern phenomenon,
it has - in a sense - always been with our species.'
In the days of our early ancestors, decisions about the distribution of
resources were not made in courthouses or legislative offices, but through
shows of strength.
With this in mind, Professor Petersen and Professor Sznycer hypothesized that
upper-body strength - a proxy for the ability to physically defend or acquire
resources - would predict men's opinions about the redistribution of wealth.