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Old 29-08-2008, 07:39 PM   #129 (permalink)
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Also quotes from my post that linked to newsmax.com, with the supporting link from an additional source in by above post. I did not think it would be necessary to go into such detail - but here it is:

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Joe Biden has always exhibited a smug sense of superiority. When caught plagiarizing an article at Syracuse College of Law, Biden successfully pleaded with the faculty not to expel him.
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Biden Admits Plagiarism in School But Says It Was Not 'Malevolent' - New York Times

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Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., fighting to salvage his Presidential campaign, today acknowledged ''a mistake'' in his youth, when he plagiarized a law review article for a paper he wrote in his first year at law school.
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Biden has tried to cheat “smarter.” He boasted that he graduated in the top half of his Syracuse Law class; in fact, Biden graduated 76th in a class of 85.
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Biden Admits Errors and Criticizes Latest Report - New York Times

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In his statement today, Mr. Biden, who attended the Syracuse College of Law and graduated 76th in a class of 85, acknowledged: ''I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school and my recollection of this was inacurate.''
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Almost being expelled from law school for cheating did not end Biden’s crookedness. During his 1988 run for the presidency, Biden plagiarized a speech by British Labour politician Neil Kinnock that described his coal-miner father. Biden’s father was a used car salesman.

After Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis distributed videotape of Kinnock and Biden’s plagiarism, Biden quit the race.
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Washingtonpost.com Special Report: Clinton Accused

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The controversy became two frenzies in one when it was disclosed that the campaign of Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis had earlier secretly distributed to several news media outlets an "attack video" juxtaposing the Biden and Kinnock speeches and revealing Biden's word theft.
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Biden ran for president again in 2008, winning 9,000 votes nationwide to Hillary Clinton’s 18 million votes. Despite this public repudiation, however, Biden soon might sit a heartbeat away from the presidency — and thereby, God forbid, become president by an act of fate, or of Satan.
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Election Center 2008: Primary Results by date - Elections & Politics news from CNN.com

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Biden - Iowa primary votes - 2,328 - he dropped out soon after


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How competent is Joseph Biden at foreign policy? He has proposed carving Iraq into three autonomous regions, much as Julius Caesar did with Gaul two millennia ago. (His plan oddly parallels what this columnist had earlier proposed, but I doubt he plagiarized me.)
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Biden proposes partitioning Iraq - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com

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The senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee proposed Monday that Iraq be divided into three separate regions — Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni — with a central government in Baghdad.
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But at least Biden is a pro-working-class, no? No. Biden represents the giant corporations and banks chartered in Delaware, and he helped them tighten bankruptcy rules for credit card debt on middle class Americans. His son Hunter Biden’s law firm was being paid $1.8 million to lobby Congress by some of these same special interests, according to the Aug. 25 USA Today.
This bit covers the bankruptcy bill:
Obama Differed With Biden On Two Key Business Votes - WSJ.com
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Mr. Biden (D., Del.) was an ardent Democratic supporter of a major bankruptcy overhaul in 2005, much to the dismay of consumer groups and the delight of Delaware's massive credit-card companies, such as MBNA Corp. That same year, Mr. Biden voted against class-action reform legislation sought by corporations.
The Associated Press: MBNA paid Biden son at critical time for bill
This bit covers his sons relations with MBNA:
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A son of Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was paid an undisclosed amount of money as a consultant by MBNA, the largest employer in Delaware, during the years the senator supported legislation that was promoted by the credit card industry and opposed by consumer groups.
Granted I did not cover every point - Skipped the bit about the Senator Judiciary Committee, as any supporting links would likely also be partisan, also the bit about Iran as I was not old enough to know how much support Biden had for Carter nor Bidens views on the situation, also the the last bit because I already said I did not quite agree with that bit.

All the bits you highlighted are just surface insults that don't mean squat in regard to the validity of the meat of the artical.
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