Trust me: if it had been borrowed from a Bush speech, it would have been far more embarrassing.
Perhaps, but certainly no more dishonest.
It’s funny that Melania plagiarized Michelle Obama’s speech on the very same day the Rep. King said that whites are responsible for Western Civilization and all the other sub-groups have contributed nothing.
Well, not funny. Not funny at all.
Is this a hoax, or did Trump tweet the exact same words about Melania as Barack did about Michelle’s convention speech? If that is true, then I know someone on Team Trump is sabotaging the operation. And that says a lot about the loyalty the Donald inspires.
I have the same question. We know what well educated people think about Trump; we know what professional journalists feel about Trump. What we don’t know, is what the 50 % of voters think with an IQ under the average of 100. They are the silent majority in this election. My fear, and I hope I’m wrong, is taht they will be easy victims to Donalds simple, emotional language and self-assured body language. Has any research been done into this?
But you’d use these words for a plagiarist trophy wife…
It’s a hoax - does that really read like an Obama tweet to you? Also, the 2012 Dem Convention was in September…
Definitely a hoax. The 2012 DNC was in September.
This might be a bit of a low blow, and I really mean Melania no ill will (can’t be easy to be married to a racist shit-flinging howler monkey) but “symbol of hard work”? She’s a model who married a rich guy, and that rich guy in turn is mostly rich because of massive loans from his rich father and the uncanny ability to get away with being a colossal douchebag.
A stiffer reading off a teleprompter there never has been.
It’s a pity those Sixties hippy liberals invented plagiarism. 
One is, actually (at the local level). Thank you for clarifying, and I’ll tell him what you think of him.
Have you even considered that maybe some Democrats are hard working and intelligent people who just see things very differently from you? Is it possible for hard working and classy people to disagree with you?
Paul Manafort’s explanation: “There is no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech. These are common words.”
So they’re going to double down. And this is the most boring day of the convention, so nothing is going to wow people into forgetting this. And Manafort is the professional, who was brought in to make this a normal campaign. Although, Trump being Trump, there’s always the possibility that he’ll say something grievously offensive and get people talking about that instead.
Some are even hard-working intelligent enough to write their own speeches.
I have to add, this is the first time I’ve ever seen someone named Trump called classy.
One theory I’ve read is that Trump’s base is people who think he’s classy. Trump is a lot of people’s idea of what they’d be like if they became rich. Look at all the lottery winners who go broke after spending all their money on tacky ostentation.
Assuming Melania really did write her speech, I’m willing to cut her some slack (not a lot).
My scenario: English is not her first language nor is America her native land, so she went to the internet to find examples of previous speeches by candidate wives. Michelle did give one hell of a speech, so she cribbed some of it. (It would be interesting to look and see if chunks of anyone else’s speeches ended up in there also).
Then she turned it over to the speech writers (who unlike college profs didn’t run it through a plagiarism checker) who polished it up a bit, and she went out and read it.
But Patrick gave Obama permission to use those words.
From that cite:
I’m aware of that, Superdude. The point is though that the public didn’t know it. Whether Patrick gave Obama permission to use his speech, or whether he felt that for Obama to give him credit was ill-advised, is beside the point. The real point is that Obama’s audience thought the speech was his and took it to heart accordingly, as both men intended. It was a deliberate and orchestrated deception.
He has chandeleeahs.
FFS, Obama’s audience knows he has speechwriters.
Maybe you should have explicitly stated that as your objection, rather than insinuate that he had plagiarized it without Parker’s knowledge.