Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Opinion

Robert Schlesinger

Obama Inaugural Address Echoes Bush, Clinton, Carter, JFK, FDR, Lincoln

January 22, 2009 01:15 PM ET | Robert Schlesinger | Permanent Link | Print

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Obama

I love him so much, I trust him, he is going to be one of the best presidents ever, I pray for his safety and his family daily, God bless our president and our country :)

i walked passed a coffee shop in ft. greene, brooklyn today going to work and saw an easel which read, "we're helping obama--$1 coffee." at first i thought, enough obama already! jeez, obama references are even associated with coffee discounts. then i thought, you know the country is suffering chronic pain...much of it if not all of that pain is economic...

i relaxed my criticism of the hyper-obama landscape. when someone suffers enough pain and they are eventually treated, medical supplies such as braces and bandages, antibiotics, etc. are applied to the wound to help it heal. right now, our country is trying to heal, and obama is the psychological medicine. so what if a little too much antibacterial cream is oozing beyond the bandage? this should be thought of as a necessary or welcome excess.

HUH?

watever haters!

Whats the point guys,

Get life guys, President Obama is the leader now ok.

Plagiarism?

They say: "If you copy the idea from one person, it IS plagiarism. But if you get the idea from a lot of people (Bush, Carter, Clinton, Reagan, FDR, Lincoln) it is called RESEARCH!!" Anyway not many speakers have/had their original ideas anymore. They usually copy from past philosophers, emperors, presidents, etc. (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle,Marcus Aurelius, and even Jesus, Solomon, etc). So my opinion is that copying ideas from others is OK.I'm sure that our past presidents also copied their origninal ideas from someone else; we just don't relize it.

And the point is? What?

Does it have to be one or the other?

And the point is? What?

Are you trying to help Obama or diminish him?

PLAGIARISM

Ah, Robert, don't we normally refer to this as plagiarism? I mean, when we're not writing about the messiah?

How about moving on?... Everybody loves Obama - we got it. He's about "change" - we got it. He is eloquent - we got it. He is "forcefully sensitive" - we got it. It's the beginning of a brave new world - we got it. He makes the media quiver with joyous anticipation - we got it. He wants to unite us - we got it. He has good speech writers - we got it.

Are there no other world events worthy of reportage these days? Has Obama Mania become the center of the universe? And, if so, how long must we revolve around his glow?

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Robert Schlesinger is a deputy editor at U.S. News and World Report and oversees all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters.

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