So listening to a speech from the DNC this week I heard someone and I can't remember who say that Obama was the candidate to restore our Country's moral authority. That is really funny in light of his pick for Vice President. As I learned Monday from some good freinds Joe Biden has a strange moral compass.
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Take into consideration his speech in 1987 Where he blatantly plagiarized a speech made by Neil Kinnock only a few months earlier. Not only did he steal another man's ideas and present them as his own, he also lied, and then told the New York Times that is was not malevolent.Biden Admits Plagiarism in School But Says It Was Not 'Malevolent' - New York Times
In addition, Mr. Biden said that in his talks invoking that speech, by Neil Kinnock, the Labor Party leader, he had miscast some of his own forebears, painting them as having rather more humble origins than they in fact did. For example, borrowing Mr. Kinnock's sentiments, Mr. Biden had said he was ''the first in his family ever to go to university.'' In fact, Mr. Biden said today, ''there are Finnegans, my mother's family, that went to college.''The same article from the Times also found that Biden in college ''used five pages from a published law review article without quotation or attribution'' in one of his college papers!Sounds to me like Obama made an outstanding choice towards restoring our Country's moral authority. (Sarcasm intended)
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Hehe. Yeah, politicians are all on some level deceitful.
I don't think I quite understand the meaning behind our "country's moral authority"...
When I think of America restoring moral authority, I think of ending the use of torture, secret prisons, breaking international laws... etc. Raising our country FAR above the practices of terrorist groups.
Am I wrong? I could just not understand what they mean by restore moral authority. And I'm having a hard time connecting typical politician behavior with my understanding of moral authority.
I entirely admit I'm a bit in the dark on this... On what Biden stands for and what the speaker meant as "moral authority".
By moral authority they are mostly suggesting that the invasion in Iraq has eroded our ability to critique Russia on its attack of Georgia. It also is designed to imply that America has never been more hated by the world. Which is something I can see little evidence of.
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