2008-08-25 What Kind of Plagiarist Is Joe Biden

2008-08-25 Jack Shafer Slate \Joe Biden/plagiarism http://www.slate.com/id/2198597/ What Kind of Plagiarist Is Joe Biden? What Kind of Plagiarist Is Joe Biden  Joe Biden's return as a vice-presidential candidate signals forgivenessâ€”at least from Barack Obamaâ€”for having plagiarized a leading British politician during Biden's campaign for the Democratic Party's 1988 presidential nomination. The Biden episode merits revisiting because as acts of plagiarism go, it was spectacular, and because it points to other dicey chapters in his life. To know Biden in full, you must appreciate his parts. ''It does seem a little odd, but despite the author's claims it still feels more like he just got carried away; in the blur of his many repetitions of the bit, the line between rhetorical metaphor and reality became blurred and he slipped up. Big deal. -''

&ldquo;Joe Biden's return as a vice-presidential candidate signals forgivenessâ€”at least from Barack Obamaâ€”for having plagiarized a leading British politician during Biden's campaign for the Democratic Party's 1988 presidential nomination.&rdquo;   