Joanimaroni wrote: bluemoon wrote: newswatcher wrote: bluemoon wrote: boards of FL wrote:Mental midget? Republicans can't even seem to offer a candidate that can simply talk. Go look at the poll numbers for the last republican primary. Each candidate spiked and then plummeted when they had to begin speaking.
I don't know where you found that graph but I love it. I doubt that Biden will be the nominee in 2016, but I think he would make a good president. If someone like Howard Dean seriously tries to get the nomination, I think it will be his for the taking. I'm talking about over Hillary or Biden. A lot of progressives are not looking for another president like Obama or Clinton, they want a real liberal in there for a change. Personally, I don't want to vote for anyone who even utters the phrase "negotiate with the Republicans in Congress." I think there are enough people out there like me who could sway the primaries in a whole different direction than the news media wants them to go.
OMG!!!!!! Biden and Dean are now considered to be 'good' candidates and would be 'good' presidents?....
Either one of them would be a better president than any one of the candidates that tried to run on the Republican ticket last time around.
Both of them are more intelligent men than the people that post on this forum. Dean actually had some very creative and new ideas about how to fix the problems we have in this country last time he ran, and except for the news media crucifying him over one stupid yell in front of his own supporters, he'd probably have been elected POTUS in '04. He could have saved this country from the world of misery that Bush led us all into.
As for Biden and his term paper, that was years ago and he isn't the first college kid to buy or borrow a term paper because he didn't want to bother to write one. Term papers are pains in the butt and there are people on college campuses who write them professionally for students to buy. It's gone on since there have been colleges in existence. Nobody is sentenced to hell over plagiarism on a college paper, FYI. I wouldn't question Joe Biden's IQ. I guarantee you it's as high or higher than Ronald Reagan's was.
Oops wrong again. Plagiarism is taken very seriously. Colleges and Universities
can and do expel current students if they are found guilty of plagiarism. It also could recommend that the students who have already graduated lose their diplomas. In some situations plagiarism can result in a prison sentence.I find it interesting some unscrupulous individuals, like a parent who takes on line classes and tests for their kid, does not see anything wrong with cheating. Cheating and deception are amoral characteristics that follow you throughout life. It defines who you really are.
Here is what Biden did, as a first-year law student:
"...The file distributed by the Senator included a law school faculty report, dated Dec. 1, 1965, that concluded that Mr. Biden had ''used five pages from a published law review article without quotation or attribution'' and that he ought to be failed in the legal methods course for which he had submitted the 15-page paper.
The plagiarized article, ''Tortious Acts as a Basis for Jurisdiction in Products Liability Cases,'' was published in the Fordham Law Review of May 1965. Mr. Biden drew large chunks of heavy legal prose directly from it, including such sentences as: ''The trend of judicial opinion in various jurisdictions has been that the breach of an implied warranty of fitness is actionable without privity, because it is a tortious wrong upon which suit may be brought by a non-contracting party.''
Just One Footnote
In his paper, Mr. Biden included a single footnote to the Fordham Law Review article..."
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He did in fact cite his reference; he just didn't do it the right way. But his professors weren't impressed; he had to retake the class.
Then there was some political hoopla in the 80's...he may have taken an idea from a British Labor Party member and not cited him in a speech... BFD. Once these little ditties get started, there's no end to the people who want to perpetuate them...usually for their own political gain.
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Here's my comment to anyone who would try to cheat off me in school...
"For me to give you a copy of my exam would rob you of the experience of having done it yourself." - Tex
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