Commentary: Joe Biden always bends in the direction of prevailing winds
by Matt Welch, Los Angeles Times
May 08, 2019
3 minutes
Say what you will about the ethics of plagiarists - at least they have an ear for what audiences want to hear.
When Joe Biden cratered in his first official run at the White House in 1987, it was because of a series of borrowed speech passages, hand gestures and even biographical details (no, he didn't derive from a family of coal miners, as he once claimed, nor was he "the first" in his clan to ever attend college; he lifted those
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