Idaho congressional candidate Vaughn Ward was so happy when Sarah Palin came to endorse him and help him raise $50,000 from nearby fat-cat potato planters last week, even though Sarah Palin lost her clothes and had to steal new ones, probably from Vaughn Ward. Ward, considered the Favorite going into tomorrow’s GOP primary, may be in for a terrible next 24 hours, however, as news is going Viral about how he borrowed some hip-hop lyrics or Koran verses from Barack Obama’s 2004 DNC keynote speech.
This revelation has been spreading around “Idaho political circles” (Facebook for potatoes?) for the past 10 days or so, and now a Republican fellow up there named Lucas Baumbach — who owns a paint shop in Boise and asks you to buy paint from his paint shop in this very same video — has spliced video footage together. THE POLITICO picked it up earlier today and now it is a big scandal among Washington DC bloggers, who will cast decisive votes in tomorrow’s Idaho primary.
Here’s what Obama said in 2004: “As we stand at the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices and meet the challenges that face us. If you feel the same urgency that I do, if you feel the same passion that I do, then I have no doubt the people will rise up in November and this country will reclaim its promise and out of this long political darkness, a brighter day will come.”
And here’s what Ward said in January: “As we stand on the crossroads of history, I know we can make the right choice and meet the challenges that lay before us. If you feel the same urgency and the same passion that I do, then I have no doubt that our voices will be heard in November. And our country will reclaim its promise and out of this darkness, a better day is on the horizon.”
This is nothing. Vaughn Ward said that a better day is “on the horizon,” which is considerably more Conservative and deficit-reducing and Christian than a better day simply coming. Sarah Palin knew this and that’s why she endorsed him, duh.
STOP RAND-PAULINIZING VAUGHN WARD.
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Geez, this Idaho fella sounds so PRESIDENTIAL!
Hahaha. His staff hates him.
The challenges that lay whom?
Harley D. Brown, your name is destiny!
He also ended the speech by thanking all of the proud men and women that he served with in Vietnam.
Jesus. Even Obama’s words cannot save his terrible delivery.
My God, Check out the site of the poster of this video, the right honorable Lucas Baumbach. This guy is a real Palin pick if I ever saw one. My favorite line in his bio is this one, “Lucas has been coating Boise with quality paint for several years” Coating Boise with Quality Paint? Isn’t that a Larry Craig line if you ever heard one?
http://www.lucas4idaho.com/
Dear Vaughn:
Here’s a campaign tip: If you’re going to plagiarize, it’s better not to do so from a source that everyone in the world has seen/heard. Maybe check out some of Dubya’s finer oratory. No one remembers that shit.
Regards,
V572625694
Ripping off the black man’s culture is a time-honored tradition in the US. I say vote him in!
Apparently, that hopey, changey stuff is working out just fine, thank you, so bite me Palin.
What’s wrong with plagiarism? Palin wouldn’t have made it through five years at four different schools without it. (Or is it five schools, and four years?)
He done rememberized it all wrong.
“Ward, who looked like an early front-runner for the GOP nomination in Democrat Walt Minnick’s district, is in a close fight in Tuesday’s House primary with state Rep. Raul Labrador. The most recent poll of the race, conducted for the Idaho Statesman, showed Ward with a three-point advantage over Labrador, leading 31 percent to 28 percent.”
He’s only got a 3pt lead in Idaho running against a Mexican dog. I’d bite Obama’s steeze too.
And, what? Lame ass white people have made great strides by jacking black folks for centuries.
[re=583950]ph7[/re]: KHAAAAAAAAN!
To be fair*, he was just reading off of Barry’s Socailist tella-PROMPTAR, which was put on the podium by Satan/Loki/Trotsky’s ghost.
* I always find myself saying this (why?), but I don’t really give a shit about being fair to jerks.
We have nothing to fear but Palin herself.
[re=583947]V572625694[/re]: You and I both know that this numbnuts would end up lifting ‘is our children learning?’.
Maybe today Ward will tell us about that dream of his, or perhaps he’ll describe for us the only thing we have to fear. The man is a fountain of wisdom.
[re=583946]Edywin[/re]: Did you notice that Lucas bears more than a passing resemblance to George “Foghorn” Winslow?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935487/
He’s a replicant, so yeah. Combat model skin job.
Door opens to the Resurrection of Larry Craig.
In his defense, Mr. Ward said, “I did not have sex with that woman — Miss Lewinsky.”
Raul Labrador is my new porn name.
Vaughn Ward, Christian soldiers!
You neglect the fact that Barack Obama has a time machine. How else do you think those ads announcing his birth got in the Hawaiian newspapers when HE WAS BORN IN KENYA?!!?!
[re=583952]FormerDCite[/re]:
Let’s split the difference and call it 5 for 5.
“That’s right, we bad. Unh huh, we bad.”
No mention of the fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers. Doesn’t Idaho have those? Maybe in the next speech.
[re=583977]Extemporanus[/re]: You’re hired immediately, as campaign manager.
This will cost him the vote of every single Idaho Republican with Internet access.
All seven of them.
Anyone check to see if this guy has a valid birth certificate?
[re=583973]Rentboy.gov[/re]: Your current one is hard to beat.
For what it’s worth, Mr. Ward is hardly a stranger to accusations of plagiarism.
I was thinking of voting for him at first, back when I thought that he was the son of a Welsh coal miner.
I wonder why Vaughn Ward didn’t plaigiarize those great Palin lines like:
“I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we’ve been charged with and automatically throw them out.” –Sarah Palin, referring to a department that does not exist while attempting to explain why as president she wouldn’t be subjected to the same ethics investigations that compelled her to resign as governor of Alaska, ABC News interview, July 7, 2009
or this one
“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.” –-Sarah Palin, in a message posted on Facebook about Obama’s health care plan, Aug. 7, 2009
or
“Left Unalakleet warmth for rain in Juneau tonite. No drought threat down here, ever but consistent rain reminds us: ‘No rain? No rainbow!’” –one of many Tweets by Sarah Palin that William Shatner recited as poetry on “The Tonight Show”
or
“Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant — they’re quite clear — that we would create law based on the God of the bible and the Ten Commandments.” –-Sarah Palin, arguing that Judeo-Christian belief was the basis for American law and should continue to be used as a guiding force for creating future legislation, interview with Bill O’Reilly, May 6, 2010
BREAKING NEWS: Sarah Palin announced that Vaughn Ward did not plagerize President Obama, but is, in fact, another victim to the librul “gotcha” journalism. He was taken out of context.
OK, Vaughn. DID YOU WRITE THIS? I’ll give you a choice: an F on your speech, or you can go and see the dean, who can kick you out of school. Which izzit?
Emergency Idaho ruling: no one can show up as Obama furry.
“No jobs. No werk.”
Seriously, that’s what it says in the closing credits. Another home schooled tea partier.
Yikes! I mean, hella yikes!! What a plagiarizin’ cad.
[re=583956]Snarkalicious[/re]:
Bing Crosby owes his entire career to that, for example. As does Bill Cosby.
[re=584029]BOOBIES![/re]:
My Favorite?
Doesn’t that just split the Cheechakis from the Sourdoughs?
[re=584126]Tommmcatt[/re]: Wow, I nearly upchucked some sourdough on my cheechakis.
I hate to take the low road here, who is the babe standing to his left?
It was all going so well until he said “I was born a poor black child…”
The Palin Ward in ’12. Crazy Panels, let the Free Market decide. He wasn’t plagiarizing, he was reloading.
That will be an F in the course, young man, and you will be on academic integrity probation, let’s see, forever. Just be glad you aren’t at Davidson or William and Mary, where you would be expelled and then shot by a firing squad.
Heh. “Darkness.” Not “political darkness” just “darkness.” I see what he did there.
[re=583961]edgydrifter[/re]: Why not? Works for Beck: http://www.indecisionforever.com/2010/05/14/colbert-glenn-beck-thinks-hes-martin-luther-king/
[re=584207]Mr Blifil[/re]: Wait, someone rang? God, do I have to watch this video now?
[re=584150]Elm Hugger[/re]:
The former staffer that “wrote the speech,” or his wife.
with that reverb is could have been ‘today today today….i consider mayself the luckiest man on the face of the earth earth earth!!!’
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