Melania Trump Aparently Plagarized Section of Michelle Obama's 2008 Convention Speech

[geronl]

More original Melania quotes

1. You can do anything, but not everything.
—David Allen
2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author
4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky
5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon
6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi
7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi
8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne
9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.


These people stole their famous quotes from Melania, obviously

[musiclady]

..and yet, Rush has been talking about it for an hour, forty-five minutes thus far- even use the Joe Biden defense of 'eveyone does it' (I thought I wouldn't see the day Conservatives stooped to that).

Yet when Obama did it, it was 'scummy' [er Rush. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/09/07/it_s_uncanny_obama_copied_jimmy_carter_s_convention_acceptance_speech_from_1980

That's a good sign of intellectual honesty on a topic- if you can change the name of the person involved and your values change, versus your values staying consistent no matter who is involved. Disappointed in Rush right now.

I've been disappointed in Rush for a long time now.

When he decided to deep six his conservatism in favor of Trump, he lost me.......... probably for good.

[Machiavelli]

I bet TOS is either ignoring this story, or whining that the media are out to get Melania, totally ignoring that it's factually correct.

There are many threads already. And yes many of the arguments push tu quoque / whataboutism.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Oh, well I guess that's why it's still clogging up my news and social media feeds then...

I guess in a sense the liberal media and liberal social media feeds are acting rational---after all, no one's talking about Hillary and Benghazi, ISIS or Blue Lives Matter---are they?

When it comes to the liberal media their motives are clear. . . . .   

@Timber Rattler 

[don-o]

Tip for those who don't have Mech on ignore.  Just picture this after each post...

Or if you you do have him on ignore, picture this for what you're missing.

[geronl]

When you've got an ardent group of posters who dislike Trump, its hardly surprising a story that's critical of him and his campaign would rise to the top of the forum. T

Only "nasty" people like honesty and integrity. Trump needs to ban those words!

[geronl]

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" - Melania Trump

[LMAO]

When he decided to deep six his conservatism in favor of Trump,

Hannity has done likewise along with the owner of Free Republic

[RoosGirl]

if you can change the name of the person involved and your values change, versus your values staying consistent no matter who is involved.

This is the part I cannot get past.  I don't understand the mindset of excusing one person for poor decisions and not excusing another person for making the same poor decision.  Have we become so frail that we believe that admitting to a mistake will be our ruination? 

[Henry Noel]

In 2 weeks this "issue" will be forgotten

Trumped by a plethora of others that will have cropped up during that time.

[LMAO]

Trumped by a plethora of others that will have cropped up during that time.

That's true

[RoosGirl]

I guess in a sense the liberal media and liberal social media feeds are acting rational---after all, no one's talking about Hillary and Benghazi, ISIS or Blue Lives Matter---are they?

When it comes to the liberal media their motives are clear. . . . .   

@Timber Rattler

I could fertilize my garden with that.

[Smokin Joe]

The end result of this is simple- failure to control the message.

It is stupid little mistakes (whether by design or incompetence) that can destroy a campaign. The media coddled the Trump campaign during the primaries because he was their bread and butter; they foolishly continued to think they would get the same coddling once the general election hit.

I can guarantee you, the first day after Trump is 'officially' the nominee, all hell is going to break loose with story after story after story from the one friendly MSM to him.

Don't say we didn't warn you.

The MSM is going to make the slander/lie/smear campaign against Cruz look like a picnic. They're going to hit the Trump camp so hard so often they'll be bleeding out of their whatevers. 

[ABX]

I guess in a sense the liberal media and liberal social media feeds are acting rational---after all, no one's talking about Hillary and Benghazi, ISIS or Blue Lives Matter---are they?

When it comes to the liberal media their motives are clear. . . . .   

Who handed that gift to the MSM on a silver platter? At that, when the most important Benghazi speech was going on last night, Trump made a point to get in front of a camera and do interviews while that was taking place- thus interrupting the coverage of it.

[Wingnut]

"Have you found Jesus." 
"I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him"  - Melania Trump

[Smokin Joe]

I caught a little of this while at the gym this morning. Yeah, judging from the video, it's apparent she lifted quite a bit from Michelle Obama's 2008 speech. But is this really Breaking News as was flashed across the screen on CNN? I was in the gym for almost an hour and that was all CNN talked about. I know this is the kind of stuff the media considers important which is why their ratings are tanking



Has CNN  reported anything about the latest CBO report regarding our fiscal situation yet?

Now, the GOP is going to run a candidate with a past that will absolutely permit burying all Hillary's misdeeds behind a WALL of Trumproversies. Reality teevee at its finest, column inches galore, twitter meat and potatoes, terrabytes of facebook...

[Smokin Joe]

Rational folks have moved on from this .... please, feel free to join us.

Sorry, lost you in there somewhere...

[catfish1957]

"Have you found Jesus." 
"I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him"  - Melania Trump

 

I think ever single move of this campaign could have a Forrest Gump quote attached.

[Silver Pines]

Rational folks have moved on from this .... please, feel free to join us.

Besides, we love them still!   ^-^

@Right_in_Virginia

You "love" a politician and his wife?  Do you really?

[sinkspur]

This is why no one's being fired.    Because she and Trump himself likely injected the cribbed language.  Matthew Scully is a well-known GOP speechwriter and would NEVER do something like this to jeopardize his career.

[INVAR]

Who handed that gift to the MSM on a silver platter? At that, when the most important Benghazi speech was going on last night, Trump made a point to get in front of a camera and do interviews while that was taking place- thus interrupting the coverage of it.

EXACTLY! The truth is found in the fruits and actions of this cult of personality. 

[Axel]

Only "nasty" people like honesty and integrity. Trump needs to ban those words!

I'm not here to engage in your cynicism.

My desire for posting here is simple. Discuss how the GOP nominee can beat the Democrat and engage with thoughtful non-liberals. The convention is here, and Trump is the nominee. It's time to focus on beating Hillary and the Democrats. A good number of threads started here aren't thread worthy. Simply picking out an editorial from a known liberal source like HuffPo, Salon, WaPo, Politico, etc. with little to no commentary about it except "Trump sucks" "Herr Drumpf" (or some slight variation) is not a quality thread, and really is just a rally call for the troops to line up and start shooting.

[libertybele]

Karma baby, Karma!  Perhaps Trump shouldn't have gone after Cruz's wife ... just sayin'.  While Melania is not at fault, this is very humiliating for her and the MSM is relentless.  Just another indicator that Trump doesn't have a clue.  Nor is his 'team of experts', so expert. Anyone still question Trump's chances of winning the general are slim to none?   He is a buffoon and his primary objective was to ensure that the Clinton dynasty continues.

[Wingnut]

I think ever single move of this campaign could have a Forrest Gump quote attached.

Indubitably!

[musiclady]

I'm not here to engage in your cynicism.

My desire for posting here is simple. Discuss how the GOP nominee can beat the Democrat and engage with thoughtful non-liberals. The convention is here, and Trump is the nominee. It's time to focus on beating Hillary and the Democrats. A good number of threads started here aren't thread worthy. Simply picking out an editorial from a known liberal source like HuffPo, Salon, WaPo, Politico, etc. with little to no commentary about it except "Trump sucks" "Herr Drumpf" (or some slight variation) is not a quality thread, and really is just a rally call for the troops to line up and start shooting.

Your 'desire' here seems to be to squelch disagreement with Donald Trump.  (And I'm pretty sure you're not the arbiter of what is "worthy" and what is not).

The fact of the matter is, that the so-called "GOP" nominee is a corrupt;, vulgar, liberal Democrat whom no conservative with conservative values can in good conscience vote for.

We are not going to beat Hillary in November because we do not have a Republican opposing her.  We have her friend 'opposing' her, thanks to the thoughtlessness and cultishness of a minority of Republicans and a whole slew of Democrat crossover votes.

But go ahead and try to correct our bad behavior, Axel.  I'm sure the 8 other Trump loyalists love it that you're trying to silence the majority.

Just like Trump is trying to do....