Plagarism – passing off someone else’s words or ideas as your own.

Word for word – not similar. No attribution. Having permission to use someone else’s words doesn’t excuse plagarism.

If your older brother gave you permission to use his term paper as your own, would that make it something other than plagarism?

And, make no mistake, neither The Hill nor Senator ‘Hope’ have got what it takes. She comes closest due to her experience, yes…she has way more than Obama, but lacks the populist fire we need. Edwards might have been able to do it but his campaign was sabatoged by both the corporatist media and the limp dicks, not the stalwart women, of the ’sphere. Kos coming out for Obama is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen in a good long time.

Maybe events will make me eat my words…..

But I really doubt it.

Oh well….

Edwards/Edwards ‘12!

For myself & perhaps others who read FDL & are not inside the commenting exclusivity bubble, posting here has become too much the insiders’ game again IMHO. I’m, I guess, something of an old hand (8/06), but not an overbearing one. Current commenters who post sooo much they turn threads into their personal chat room…

Well said. I enjoy reading the stories and (some) posts but you’re right. I feel like I’m at a sorority/frat party sometimes. What’s with the cliquey-ness?

So does this mean politicians now have intellectual property? (President Bush, of course, excluded).

But by January the polls showed that McCain was resurgent, and Edwards was actually almost 10 points behind him in a head-to-head. Obama could beat McCain, and Hillary was in a statistical tie.

Look at the January polls on Polling Report

Edwards only did better than the McCain when McCain was not considered “THE” Republican favorite.Once he started his rebound he started to beat Edwards. And Edwards never faced any scrutiny over his record by the MSM (the same charge that Clinton is making vs. Obama).

If his actual Senatorial record had been scrutinized it would have shown a very problematic candidate (especially for progressives). He was, with Joe Lieberman, a cofounder of the quite centrist-right New Democratic Coalition (a branch of the DLC), a caucus which had as members such luminaries as Ellen Tauscher and Art Davis (Alabama) in the House branch. In the Senate that Caucus consisted of Edwards, Lieberman, Bayh, Breaux and Landrieu (LA), Bob Graham (FL), Bob Kerrey (Neb), Blanche Lincoln (Ark), and Chuck Robb (VA).

And imagine what would have happened when issues like Edwards opposition to bills requiring that downed cattle not be put into the food chain. Or his support of the bankruptcy bill. Or his vote to table Dodd’s efforts to limit the reduction in the tax code rates and estate tax levels (in which he joined 13 Blue Dogs and the entire Republican wing to kill). In fact there are over 30 Bills that he joined with the Republicans against the concensus of the Democrats on issues relating to tax cuts, tabling accountability measures relating to the Iraq War, against public financing for elections, Nuclear Waste storage, against Veterans Health care, for restrictions of travel to Cuba, allowing sales of semiautomatic weapons and accessories over the internet, allowing the surplus 9instead of tax increases) to pay down fiscal year debt, etc. The list goes on-and-on.

It’s why the progressives in the Senate didn’t support him…they knew his record and the fact that he constantly voted to table, kill, and waive progressive bills and amendments with the Republicans and Blue Dogs.

Doubt it since every candidate is going to say the same thing, and Edwards would have said the same thing as well. Gotta pander to Corn & Exiles.

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If FLA had stayed in line their primary would have had more weight.