{"id":197270,"date":"2008-02-19T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/ok-this-is-just-bat-insane-and-stupid\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T11:07:00","slug":"ok-this-is-just-bat-insane-and-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/ok-this-is-just-bat-insane-and-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, This is Just Bat$#%@ Insane, and Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entire accusations of &#8220;plagiarism&#8221; against Obama in his speaking are bogus.<\/p>\n<p>There is a qualitative difference between a politico using someone else&#8217;s catch phrase, which is done all the time, and what Joe Biden did in 1988, when he <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">lifted an entire speech and life story<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>John F. Kennedy&#8217;s &#8220;Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country&#8221; phrase came from a speech from Warren G. Harding, for example.<\/p>\n<p>This some seriously lame stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire accusations of &#8220;plagiarism&#8221; against Obama in his speaking are bogus. There is a qualitative difference between a politico using someone else&#8217;s catch phrase, which is done all the time, and what Joe Biden did in 1988, when he lifted an entire speech and life story. John F. Kennedy&#8217;s &#8220;Ask not what your country &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197270"}],"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=197270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}