Posted by
Tim Blessing on Monday, February 18, 2008 7:23:12 PM
Barack Obama committed plagarism, but this not unethical.
It does indicate a lack of originality.
Joe Biden faced this question in 1988 when he was caught plagarizing his friend Neil Kinnock.
Kinnock was Labor Party in England at the time.
Senator Biden dropped out of the primary campaign almost immediately.
Rules of Politics apparently are more strick at the Presidential Level than at lower level offices.
If you were writing your dissertation for a Master's and committed this mistake and were caught. You would be kicked out of the program.
Former President Bush has spoken for the all of the elder statesmen in the Republican Party by endorsing McCain.
To get McCain the money he need's he will have to talk to the major power brokers in the Republican Party.
Persuasion is a necessary skill in any endeavor, but in Presidential politics its a sheer necessity.
McCain is not the most popular man around, but he has demonstrated that can get people to vote for him.
I guess you would have to expose to the power brokers his behind-the-scenes role in dealing with Bush.
A Leader without a following like Reagan, a leader with better ethics than Nixon, a man with a plan unlike Carter, a man who has fought the good fight for 25 years in Congress, and yes he has made enemies along the way.
A Republican Candidate like Presidentt James K. Polk. A doer not a talker. A man who doesn't tell stories, but get's results.