Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? [Pointing to his wife in the audience:] Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick?
Biden's speech made reference to himself and his wife Jill, and included the lines:
I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? [Pointing to his wife in the audience:] Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I'm the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?[23]
Biden went on to duplicate other parts of Kinnock's speech, such as their forebears' ability to read and write poetry, their strength in working for hours underground in a mine only to come up and play football afterward, and their being limited by lack of a "platform" upon which to stand.[23]
Biden had in fact cited Kinnock as the source for the formulation on previous occasions.[24][25] However, he made no reference to the original source at the August 23 Democratic debate at the Iowa State Fair being reported on,[26] nor in an August 26 interview for the National Education Association.[25] Moreover, while political speeches often appropriate ideas and language from each other, Biden's use came under more scrutiny because he fabricated aspects of his own family's background in order to match Kinnock's.[17][27]
他这个剽窃是老问题了，上大学的时候就被人抓住过。
Biden also misrepresented his standing in law school, claiming that he had graduated in the
"top half" of his class
when he actually was ranked 76 out of 85.
He further claimed that he had earned "three degrees." In reality, Biden earned a B.A. with a double major (History and Political Science) from the University of Delaware in June 1965. He was ranked 506 out of a class of 688 students.
When he admitted to the law school plagiarism -- he got an "F" in the class -- Biden said, "I did something very stupid 23 years ago." He described it as a "mistake" that was not intentional, said The Post. "The record showed that in a meeting on Dec. 1, 1965, the law school faculty found that Biden had, 'without quotation or citation,' lifted five pages from a published law review article and used them in his 15-page paper for a legal-methods course," reported The Post.
Biden was allowed to retake the course at Syracuse University College of Law, which he did; he earned a grade of 80. Biden was admitted to the Delaware Bar Association in 1969.
By Paul Taylor September 18, 1987
An emotional Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) yesterday acknowledged he had plagiarized in a paper he submitted while a first-year law student in 1965, but defended his integrity and vowed to remain a candidate for his party's presidential nomination.
"I did something very stupid 23 years ago," Biden, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said at a crowded news conference he convened to try to dispose of burgeoning charges of plagiarism -- past and present -- that have threatened his candidacy.
Major controversy beset Biden's candidacy, beginning on September 12, 1987 with high-profile articles in The New York Times and The Des Moines Register.[22] Biden was accused of plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labour Party.[23] Kinnock's speech, delivered to a Welsh Labour Party conference on May 15, 1987, and then rebroadcast during the UK 1987 general election, made reference to his background and that of his wife Glenys. It included the lines:
Biden's speech made reference to himself and his wife Jill, and included the lines:
Biden went on to duplicate other parts of Kinnock's speech, such as their forebears' ability to read and write poetry, their strength in working for hours underground in a mine only to come up and play football afterward, and their being limited by lack of a "platform" upon which to stand.[23]
Biden had in fact cited Kinnock as the source for the formulation on previous occasions.[24][25] However, he made no reference to the original source at the August 23 Democratic debate at the Iowa State Fair being reported on,[26] nor in an August 26 interview for the National Education Association.[25] Moreover, while political speeches often appropriate ideas and language from each other, Biden's use came under more scrutiny because he fabricated aspects of his own family's background in order to match Kinnock's.[17][27]
他这个剽窃是老问题了，上大学的时候就被人抓住过。
Biden also misrepresented his standing in law school, claiming that he had graduated in the
He further claimed that he had earned "three degrees." In reality, Biden earned a B.A. with a double major (History and Political Science) from the University of Delaware in June 1965. He was ranked 506 out of a class of 688 students.
When he admitted to the law school plagiarism -- he got an "F" in the class -- Biden said, "I did something very stupid 23 years ago." He described it as a "mistake" that was not intentional, said The Post. "The record showed that in a meeting on Dec. 1, 1965, the law school faculty found that Biden had, 'without quotation or citation,' lifted five pages from a published law review article and used them in his 15-page paper for a legal-methods course," reported The Post.
Biden was allowed to retake the course at Syracuse University College of Law, which he did; he earned a grade of 80. Biden was admitted to the Delaware Bar Association in 1969.
By Paul Taylor September 18, 1987An emotional Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) yesterday acknowledged he had plagiarized in a paper he submitted while a first-year law student in 1965, but defended his integrity and vowed to remain a candidate for his party's presidential nomination.
"I did something very stupid 23 years ago," Biden, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said at a crowded news conference he convened to try to dispose of burgeoning charges of plagiarism -- past and present -- that have threatened his candidacy.
他发布这个讲话两天之后退出了竞选。
美国民间的聪明能干的人太多了，根本不需要什么英明领导。最怕就是那种自以为是，还非要做一番伟业的人瞎搞。
现在的选民都一点头脑没有，真是的