wow, how old are you ? 20,000 years give or take?

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/20/12239342/donald-trump-melania-plagiarism

"Trump speechwriter Meredith Melver says the copied passages were due to a miscommunication. In her telling, Melania read some phrases to Melver over the phone and Melver didn’t realize they were verbatim quotes from Obama’s 2008 speech."

So basically Melania knew the speech was plagirizing Michelle Obama. She read it to her speech writer. Her speech writer wrote it down. She then read it out.

It's also pretty hilarious how people think that two generic speeches about the same thing coincidentally have almost the exact same words. Some sections were literally ad verbatim the same. Regardless of how generic the speeches are, the odds of that happening randomly are smaller than winning the lottery.

We've had presentations at school where 27 different students had to make a presentation about a much narrower subject than this, and none sounded as similar to eachother as this. But yeah yeah, it was totally a coincidence.

I mean, how big of an issue this is is one thing, but you have to at least admit that the odds that this was a coincidence as opposed to copying a part of Michelle's speech are tiny.

it is hilarious that they admit they copied passages and even here on this very forum people are defending it!  Trump was right!

I admit that it's likely that she copied her speech but it's just a speech. The wording is extremely generic. She more or less quoted her.

Could you not insult others? 

Are you talking to me or to Donald Trump? THE CAMPAING LITTERLY ADMITTED TO COPYING HER. I am not trying to insult others but when you are defending someone who is insulting you, you need to really take a look at what is going on.

ITS A SCAM!  And they are using the Republican Party to pull it off.

Then should she not have said "quote" somewhere in there?  Or given credit at some potin during the speech?

May I ask, and do be absolutely honest, how would you react if it were the other way around?

You're using a pic to insult others and you even worded give emphasis to the insult. Stop it. You know what you're doing.

I wouldn't care because people copy the spoken word of other people all the time. It's harmless. People will often repeat phrases and words they like. If anything it's a compliment to whoever said it first or was quoted. Whenever someone quotes another person verbally, I've never seen them give credit to who they quoted. It's when the quote is written down on twitter or facebook or in a forum that you might see someone give credit to where they got it. 

If trump's wife or obama's wife quoted a racist or something along those lines then I could understand a shit storm over it. 

The American Republican party is torn and desperate. They have a great business man, horrible overall man running for president. And a running mate that's my former governer, of Indiana, running together. Mind's well let Oil and Water run together. America is in for dark times ahead.