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Title: You are going to love this Biden ad....
Post by: wacki on August 23, 2008, 08:44:58 AM
This
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVUPqoowf8


Found by:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31022_New_McCain_Ad_on_Joe_Biden/
Title: Re: You are going to love this Biden ad....
Post by: agricola on August 23, 2008, 08:47:46 AM

The British are way ahead of you!

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=14321.msg263379#msg263379

Title: Re: You are going to love this Biden ad....
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on August 23, 2008, 08:48:11 AM
ouch!  now thats priceless
Title: Re: You are going to love this Biden ad....
Post by: Unisaw on August 23, 2008, 03:49:53 PM
I just attended a company picnic with a guy who is on the board of Syracuse University.  He said that Biden went to law school there and was nearly kicked out for plagiarism.  From Wikipedia:

Then in September 1987, the campaign ran into serious trouble when he was accused of plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock, then-leader of the British Labour Party.[26] Though Biden had correctly credited the original author in all speeches but one, the one where he failed to make mention of the originator was caught on video; the New York Times reported "Senator Biden began his remarks by saying the ideas had come to him spontaneously on the way to the debate."[26][27]

Within days, it was also discovered that as a first-year law student at Syracuse Law School, Biden had plagiarized a law review article in a class paper he wrote. Though the dean of the law school in 1988 as well as Biden's former professor played down the incident of plagiarism, they did find that Biden drew "chunks of heavy legal prose directly from" the article in question. Biden said the act was inadvertent due to his not knowing the proper rules of citation, and Biden was permitted to retake the course after receiving a grade of F, which was subsequently dropped from his record.


I guess Obama thinks that Biden's foreign policy experience outweighs all of this.
Title: Re: You are going to love this Biden ad....
Post by: wmenorr67 on August 23, 2008, 08:17:59 PM
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I guess Obama thinks that Biden's foreign policy experience outweighs all of this.

That or Biden is just better at stealing it.
Title: Re: You are going to love this Biden ad....
Post by: RevDisk on August 23, 2008, 11:01:22 PM
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I guess Obama thinks that Biden's foreign policy experience outweighs all of this.

That or Biden is just better at stealing it.

Fixed.
Title: Re: You are going to love this Biden ad....
Post by: iiibdsiil on August 24, 2008, 08:52:18 AM
I'll give him that citing sources properly can be a real pain in the butt. I just had one professor that stated if the source is not cited 100% properly (screwed up on a date, put it in the paper but not properly, etc) we would be hit with plagiarism. We spent more time in the MLA handbook making sure the sources were right than we did on actually writing the paper.

Not that it makes him any better, I'm just saying...

Edit:

I was nearly kicked out of high school for threatening violence with a firearm. The principal pulled it outta his butt to make an expulsion happen. I had statements both supporting me and against me, none of which had mention of a firearm. Even the "victim" in the situation will tell you to this day that I never mentioned a firearm. But, you know, I was almost kicked out of school for it. rolleyes