{"id":189074,"date":"2010-05-28T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/28\/you-know-when-a-republican-plagiarizes-barack-hussein-obama\/"},"modified":"2010-05-28T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T21:16:00","slug":"you-know-when-a-republican-plagiarizes-barack-hussein-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/28\/you-know-when-a-republican-plagiarizes-barack-hussein-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know, When a Republican Plagiarizes Barack Hussein Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He loses the primary, even when <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2010\/05\/26\/idaho-upset-labrador-bests-ward\/\">his opponent is a Puerto Rican by birth<\/a>, which, in the Republican party makes him a despised minority:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>State Rep. Raul Labrador handily defeated Vaughn Ward 48%-39% in Tuesday\u2019s Idaho primary, and will go on to challenge Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick this November.<\/p>\n<p>Ward, the establishment favorite, had a six-to-one money advantage over Labrador, and had a heavy television presence while Labrador ran only radio spots. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin also campaigned for Ward in the closing days of the race.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>And I really love the fact that another of Sister Sarah&#8217;s anointed got pasted.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ward also faced plagiarism allegations on his campaign Web site and in his speeches. Politico reported that Ward\u2019s kick-off campaign speech in January closely mirrored that of President Barack Obama\u2019s 2004 speech at the Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>He was also dinged by the Pentagon for appearing in uniform in a campaign ad, and was forced to take down the ad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Truth be told, I&#8217;m not sure if Palin would have endorsed Ward but for the fact that his opponent was Hispanic.<\/p>\n<p>There have been enough reports of Sarah Palin&#8217;s disdain for minorities, particularly Alaskan Eskimos and Indians to make one wonder about how she feels about non-whites.<\/p>\n<p>Still, heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He loses the primary, even when his opponent is a Puerto Rican by birth, which, in the Republican party makes him a despised minority: State Rep. Raul Labrador handily defeated Vaughn Ward 48%-39% in Tuesday\u2019s Idaho primary, and will go on to challenge Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick this November. Ward, the establishment favorite, had a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}