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SonOfTheMask1 year, 3 months ago
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With Barry's penchant for unsealing court records in order to smear opponents and win elections, I'm sure the DNC "rapid response team" is on the case.
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Rest assured, the DuNCe team has plenty of motivation what with Biden's plagiaristic past and wonderful foot-in-mouth sound bytes proliferating on the Web.-
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JeannieBeany1 year, 3 months ago
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McCain's plagiarism from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1973 The Gulag Archipelago ,which told the heart rending story of a fellow prisonor giving him a sign from God by drawing a cross in the dirt with a shovel is worse than plagiarism.. Especially when told to a preacher in front of a Christian audiance. He knew this book, quoted this book, and never mentioned this incident until that forum. He is a phony and a liar and trading in on his prison experience . No wonder there is no more straight talk express, or open town hall meetings...he can't stand up to the questioning that would expose him as the phony he is. Harry Truman said it best, "Any body who calls you my friend, is NOT your friend."
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mivan41 year, 3 months ago
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McCain didn't plagiarize that story, Lies told again. McCain told a very slightly similar story that likely was true in its own right! Just cause one person draws a cross in the sand doesn't mean some other person couldn't have drawn a cross in the sand. McCain's individual may well have even read the original author and thought it would be neat to do it also! Show me proof of plagiarism or SHUT up. There is PROOF on Biden on 2 different accounts! There is none on McCain. If you said you drove your car to Kmart and wrote about it. Then someone else says that I drove my car to Kmart doesn't make that someone a plagiarist in the least. but if you call that other person a plagiarist that very well could make you a LIAR!
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And, the reason for no more Town Hall's- Ask Barry about that because it was Barry who turned down the offers to do town halls!!!!!!!!!!
On top of that McCain had his speech platform at the RNC specifically designed to represent a "Town Hall" format and that was just 2 days ago WHICH CLEARLY shows he is still into Town Halls - only if Barry was also- but we know who really is scared of them DON'T WE!!!!! -
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Klarissa1 year, 3 months ago
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from fact check.org
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Did John McCain steal this story?
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There's no such story in "Archipelago." There is a somewhat similar story attributed to Solzhenitsyn, which we've traced back to Rev. Billy Graham by way of former Richard Nixon aide Charles Colson. But that's not proof that McCain's story isn't true.
The stories aren't exactly the same. In McCain's telling, a Vietnamese prison guard shows him kindness one night by secretly loosening his cruelly tight bonds, then draws a cross in the sand with his foot to indicate that he is a fellow Christian. In the various versions attributed to Solzhenitsyn, the cross is drawn by a fellow prisoner, not a guard, and with a stick, not his foot. The story certainly does not appear in the place that some of McCain's detractors are suggesting that he got it.
Solzhenitsyn's "Archipelago" was originally published in 1973 — the same year McCain returned from Vietnam. But "The Gulag Archipelago" contains no such story. We searched all three volumes of the work through an online version for several key words, and we found nothing remotely similar. It's just not there.
Just to be safe, we also checked the author's novel, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch." It's not there, either.
But we see no evidence that McCain pilfered the quote. The two stories are markedly different, for one thing. In one version, it's a fellow prisoner drawing with a stick; in the other, it's a kindly guard drawing a cross with his foot.
Furthermore, in Graham's version, Solzhenitsyn was contemplating suicide at the time. McCain says in his book that he did consider suicide while a prisoner, but that was on an entirely different occasion when he had been beaten for days and was about to sign a false confession to end his torture. It had nothing to do with the cross-in-the-sand story.
We asked the McCain campaign about the accusation, and a spokesman pointed us to a campaign blog entry with quotes attributed to Bud Day, a close friend of McCain. Day said that McCain told him the story prior to the publication of "Faith of My Fathers":
McCain Report: ...[Day] did confirm that "not long after we all got back together [in the camp]," McCain told him the story of the prison guard who drew a cross in the dirt one Christmas.
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Klarissa1 year, 3 months ago
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n2n - What is there to hide? You put out a falsehood - and we have to waste time proving that it is a smear from Obama's supporters.
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Factcheck.org
Solzhenitsyn's "Archipelago" was originally published in 1973 — the same year McCain returned from Vietnam. But "The Gulag Archipelago" contains no such story. We searched all three volumes of the work through an online version for several key words, and we found nothing remotely similar. It's just not there.
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