Melania Trump Basically Copies a 2008 Michelle Obama Speech at the RNC (compare, state)

[stan4]

I like the part where Melania talked about how tough it was growing up as a black woman in Chicago.

[cuebald]

So - If Melania copied Michelle Obama's speech, and the GOP crowd loved it - That means that the GOP must love Michelle Obama.

You can come out of the closet now, Guys! It's OK to love Michelle.

[mightleavenyc]

Hey Michelle, YOU didn't write that.

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by Shankapotomus

Well...duh..

Are you high?

Nope, just a Trump supporter. I've seen crack addicts that made more sense than this bunch.

Originally Posted by mightleavenyc

Hey Michelle, YOU didn't write that.

Michelle graduated *** laude from Princeton, and her vocabulary is roughly 10 grades higher than Donald's. I'm sure she can write a speech just fine.

[mightleavenyc]

So much hate for Melania this morning. Is it because she is an immigrant?

[kevinm]

Originally Posted by Seacove

Good observation. Apparently Trump U. was cribbed from some other materials. A ghostwriter wrote Trump's book. There is no "there" there.

Obama did not write his books and Michelle's speech was not written by her either.

[Shankapotomus]

Originally Posted by mightleavenyc

So much hate for Melania this morning. Is it because she is an immigrant?

No because she lifted her speech from Michelle O.

[kevinm]

Originally Posted by RaymondChandlerLives

Nope, just a Trump supporter. I've seen crack addicts that made more sense than this bunch.



Michelle graduated *** laude from Princeton, and her vocabulary is roughly 10 grades higher than Donald's. I'm sure she can write a speech just fine.

.... and she still talks like a hood rat. You can't teach intelligence.

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by kevinm

Obama did not write his books and Michelle's speech was not written by her either.

The Trumpettes are projecting now. As expected.

Just because Donald has "written" more books than he's read, doesn't mean you have to take it out on the President and First Lady.

Originally Posted by kevinm

.... and she still talks like a hood rat. You can't teach intelligence.

She doesn't talk like that at all. You only say that because she's Black. Typical Reich-winger.

You're right though, you can't reach intelligence. Just ask the teachers at Wharton!

[legalsea]

I have a hard time caring about this issue.


For one, it was but a introductory speech, by a spouse of a nominee. There is only so much a person can say about their spouse: a person with dignity and honor, loves his country, good family man, etc.


While the similarities are obvious, I would not go so far (as CNN in their headline today) to call it "plagiarism". I consider plagiarism as a person presenting words, ideas, thoughts, as the product of one's own mind and effort, whereas the person actually stole from another person and inappropriately took credit for it. I did not for one instance believe that Ms. Trump wrote her own speech (indeed, several had a hand in it), and so she did not engage in plagiarism.


Politicians have been utterly the same words, with slight variations, for decades. It is as "American as Apple Pie".


I do feel for Ms. Trump, for she did her best to deliver a speech on behalf of her husband, and now people will dwell, at least for today, on this issue.


I will say: Hillary Rodham Clinton better look at her speech again, and that of her husband, and delete anything that would smack of having been said before. For instance, "I believe in America" has been said before. "I love America" also. Even "My husband needs to keep his pants zipped" has been said hundreds of times over the decades. She may want to consider speaking in a foreign language, for people will be listening and comparing to the utterances of long ago.