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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Didn't Biden Get In Trouble For Something Like This Last Time?

Didn't Joe Biden get in trouble for plagiarizing in his last presidential campaign?

"It’s not a blue America. It’s not a red America. It’s not a Christian America or a non-Christian America. It’s not a white or a brown or a black America. It’s not Republican or Democrat. It’s the America that I remember when I was a senior in high school..."
- Sen. Joe Biden, June 2005

VERSUS

"There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America—there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America."
- Barack Obama, July 2004

Sure, it's definitely not exact...but you gotta admit it's still kinda funny...And boy, if I had become famous for plagiarizing in my last presidential race, I would steer very clear of even coming close to repeating one of the most famous Democratic speeches in recent memory...but maybe that's just me...