Geee Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 American Thinker:Kudos to presidential historian Alvin Felzenberg for his tug on Obama's cape. A Ph.D. from Princeton and the former spokesman for the 9/11 commission, Felzenberg is the first intellectual insider to suggest publicly that President Barack Obama is not the writer the literati have anointed him to be.In his review of the State of the Union speech posted on the U.S. News website, Felzenberg goes so far as to accuse the president and his speechwriters of plagiarizing it."President Obama's second State of the Union address contained enough recycled ideas and lines lifted from speeches of others to make historians wince," writes Felzenberg. "Had the president submitted the text of his second State of the Union Address in the form of a college term paper, he would have been sent forthwith to the nearest academic dean."As the impressively well-read Felzenberg documents, Obama lifted lines or ideas from the speeches of Dwight Eisenhower, Woodrow Wilson, Mario Cuomo, Margaret Thatcher, Franklin Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy without attribution.Obama's awkward pilfering from Kennedy evoked the amateurish days of his writing career before he hooked up with skilled writer, editor, and terrorist Bill Ayers. "I know there isn't a person here who would trade places with any other nation on Earth," said Obama on Tuesday, apparently oblivious to the fact that he was comparing a "person" to a "nation." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evad Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 But..but...it was the greatest speech EVER!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 I'm shocked, I tell you. Just shocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyannaish Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Heh. I see where they're going with this! Now he can blame the lackluster speech on everyone else! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share Posted January 28, 2011 Mmmmmmm, maybe he got pointers from Biteme! Seems to me he had this problem the first time he ran for Pres? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 pollyannaish! You have a devious mind. Too much time on the Internet. Heh. I see where they're going with this! Now he can blame the lackluster speech on everyone else! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyannaish Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 pollyannaish! You have a devious mind. Too much time on the Internet. Heh. I see where they're going with this! Now he can blame the lackluster speech on everyone else! That is frighteningly accurate these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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