Joe Biden, a Dem superdelegate who admitted plagiarizing a speech by a left-wing British politican in 1987, used an expletive to describe Bush's speech at the Knesset Thursday. The Crypt:
“This is bu******, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”
Speaking before the Knesset, Bush said that “some people” believe the United States “should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."
"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
Democrats have interpreted the comments as an attack on Sen. Barack Obama, and Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that the president was out of line.
Biden is certainly an expert on malarkey in speeches - Biden himself was forced out of the 1988 presidential race after he was caught plagiarizing a speech by Neal Kinnock, a UK Labour Party politician. From FamousPlagiarists.com:
Senator Biden’s plagiarism of a speech by British Labor Party leader Neal Kinnock took place at a campaign stump at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. In closing his speech, Biden took Kinnock’s ideas and language as if they were his very own inspired thoughts, prefacing Kinnock’s ideas with the phrase “I started thinking as I was coming over here . . . “. Little did Biden suspect that video footage of this speech would be spliced together with footage of Kinnock’s speech in an “attack video” which would be distributed by members of the Dukakis campaign.
Biden initially denied the plagiarism and actually stayed in the race several more weeks, until reports surfaced that he had been caught cheating in law school.
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Joe Biden is a superdelegate due to his position as a Senator.
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