In a strange twist of fate, then-Vice President Joe Biden ripped on then-President Barack Obama for allegedly plagiarizing a portion of Biden’s 2008 running mate acceptance speech, according to 2010 emails between Biden and son Hunter Biden gleaned from the latter’s notorious laptop.
On Sept. 7, 2020, a day after Obama delivered a pro-union speech at Laborfest in Milwaukee, Hunter quoted Obama in an email sent to Joe Biden’s personal account, auks@att.blackberry.net.
Interesting language from the President: ‘They (his grandparent) would tell me about seeing their fathers or uncles losing their jobs…how it wasn’t just a loss of a paycheck that stung. It was the blow to their dignity, their sense of self worth,’” Hunter wrote.
“Wonder where he got that from?” Hunter asked. “Im surprised he didn’t finish with the long walk up a short flight of stairs. Pretty amazing.”
“No grace,” Joe Biden responded to his son.
Hunter appeared to suggest that Obama stole part of his father’s 2008 campaign speeches when Biden, then a U.S. senator, repeatedly discussed the effects on a family over job loss.
“That’s how you come to believe, to the very core of your being, that work is more than a paycheck,” Biden said in his August 2008 speech when he accepted becoming Obama’s running mate. “It’s dignity. It’s respect.”
During a 2008 speech in Missouri, Biden talked about the “long walk.”
“You know, when a job is lost or a house is foreclosed on, it’s not just an economic loss, it’s emotionally devastating for a family,” Joe Biden said at the time. “It’s about a parent having to make that long walk up a short flight of stairs, like my dad did when I was 10 years old, and walk into the child’s bedroom and say honey, I’m sorry — I’m sorry, but Daddy lost his job, or Mommy lost her job.”
Interestingly, Biden has a history of plagiarizing — speeches, statements, and documents — and last week, he faced a new, similar accusation from a Harvard Law School graduate.
“I was shocked by the plagiarism I discovered,” said Roger Severino, vice president at the Heritage Foundation, who is claiming that Biden lifted big portions of his work from an essay Biden wrote.
He said in a thread posted on the X platform last week that, while working at the Harvard Journal on Legislation as a junior editor in 2000, one of his earliest assignments was to reference check an essay penned by Biden. In doing so, he said he found several instances of plagiarism.
My first assignment as a junior editor at the Harvard Journal on Legislation (1999-2000) was to cite check an article submitted by one Sen. Joseph R. Biden. I was shocked by the plagiarism I discovered.
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Severino claimed that Biden had “lifted language” from a Supreme Court opinion for an essay in which the then-U.S. senator defended the federal Violence Against Women Act while failing to provide sources or quotes, implying that the work was original.
“He had lifted language straight out of a [federal court] opinion, changed a couple words, and called them his own. There were no quote marks and no footnote or anything else attributing the court as the source,” Severino said.
What happened next, however, was also an abomination, if not typical of the left-wing bias now prevalent in the country’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
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