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...from memorably, at the Bork hearings. But what most voters are more likely to remember was the endless TV sequences of Biden's words on the campaign trail juxtaposed with almost identical oratory coming from the mouth of Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey and British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock. English teachers in New Hampshire high schools were soon using Biden as the bad example in lessons on the evils of plagiarism...
First The New York Times ran a page one story on the, shall we say, similarities between a Biden peroration in an August debate in Iowa and a moving and brilliantly effective Neil Kinnock speech shown in an advertisement during the British elections. Then it turned out Biden had lifted, without attribution, a lengthy passage from another famous and eloquent speech Robert Kennedy made during the 1968 presidential campaign...
...might fare against Biden braino-a-braino, he'd be hard pressed to lose a veracity contest to the senator. All of Biden's claims were false. "I exaggerate when I'm angry," he said by way of explanation. Similarly, his aides tried to explain away his appropriation of Kinnock's speech and ancestry by saying that he had gone on "automatic pilot...
...when he goes on automatic he is forced to make things up or steal them from others. Have there been no formative events in his life of which to speak? Nothing inside which he can fall back on? I bet Biden doesn't even realize that when Kinnock spoke of his ancestors playing football after a long day's work, he was talking about soccer...
Britain's recent election struck many voters there as too much like an + American presidential campaign. Pollsters, Madison Avenue techniques and television played too conspicuous a role. And to what end? Margaret Thatcher won as expected, even though almost everyone agreed that Labor's Neil Kinnock had campaigned more effectively on television (causing Lady Seear, a Liberal politician, to complain, "He may be a nice man, but for a Prime Minister it's not enough to be nice. It's not enough even for a cook!"). British politicians may be learning techniques from us, but it appeared to an American...