John McCain is a Republican who was elected for Senator in Arizona in the year 1986. He was born in 1936. He actively participated in the Vietnam War as a POW for 5 consecutive years. His career peak was when he successfully ran against Bush in the year 2000 and won the presidential election.
People remember John McCain from many of his memorable quotes that he said during special and important events in the life of his country and his fellowmen.
On October 16, 2006, he was interviewed at the New Republic regarding his actions against the Iran and Israel troubles. According to him, he will not decide to go to war but rather think of all the possible options on how to solve their issues. He has expressed his working and getting allies form the United Nations and Europe. He said that using the military actions would be his last option to solve this issue. He also stated that even if Iran actually acquired weapons against Israel, this will not mean that they are going to war. Every option that he is going to use, he will evaluate if it is the most effective step or not.
On May 2006, he stated that the Palestinians should recognize Israel. This step would actually result to a comprehensive peace between the Palestinians and the Israel. He said that both Israel and Palestine should honor their previous agreements, reform their internal institutions, and avoid using violence against each other.
On January 26, 2006, he spoke during the Palestinian elections when Hamas was declared the winner. According to him, Hamas should change himself fundamentally. He should give up violence, he should leave his goal of removing Israel, and he should learn to accept the two-state solution. Elections are really proving that the Middle East is a democratic country, and people have decided who they really want. However, Hamas is not a peace lover and he is not willing to let Israel stay.
On August 19, 2003, he was interviewed at Silvan Shalom for a press conference. During this press conference, he was glad to inform the people that a security fence has been built to make the Israel and Palestine people leave apart from each other without violence. Because Israel and Palestine people could not live together, this fence was made possible. The exact geographic location of this fence will be agreed upon by the Israel and Palestine people. McCain said that the United States is there to give advice and consultation to the Israelis regarding their security.
On May 2002, McCain made a speech to the Committee of American Jewish. McCain said that the Iraq and Syria should challenge the defenses of Israel. They should develop weapons and build their defenses. He explained that the Israel people would surely agree that a healthy prevention is not their best option for avoiding the Iran, and they should think of better ways on how they can defend themselves in this time of mass destruction.
On April 2002, he also made a speech for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. In this speech, he talked about terrorism. They can be in the form of amateur murderers, professional killers, or crashing civilian aircrafts. They only have one mission, to kill innocent people. This is used as a political solution between the conflict of Palestinians and Israel. However, they do not actually allow the terrorists to do this to its people. Not any nation will tolerate terrorists to enter their nation. And not any nation will abandon their obligations on morality of their country.
On June 2001, McCain attended the AIPAC conference. He stated that America is very committed to giving security to Israel; therefore it will be providing all the military technology and equipment to defend their nation.
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Plagiarism is now becoming usual today. At the present age, it has become a very common act. For almost all aspects, things, industries, and business, borrowing is now becoming respectable and is no longer considered a moral issue. Services, spoofs, collages, and others are now viewed as a different art by some people. Some of the people in the music industry have been recreating music and people don’t care if these are remakes, they just enjoy them and sing with these songs,
Today, copying and borrowing is no longer considered a moral issue. Some people even think that it is a genius act. For them, this way is recreating the old facts; this is a way of creating new ideas that are fresh to the people. These new inventions in different fields come out to be artistic rather than illegal.
In a speech made by the President Barrack Obama, he was accused of plagiarism by a senior official of the Hillary Rodham Campaign. In the said speech, Obama used borrowed lines which were actually delivered by his friend Deval Patrick. Deval Patrick like Obama is a democratic politician, and the governor of Massachusetts. Obama’s speech was a reaction about Clinton’s statement that he was a man of words and nothing more. Obama stated that all words said matter. They are not just words. Like he said, we use these words as a verification of truth, to serve and prove that all of us are equal. He said that people should only fear nothing else but fear. Obama also stated that he has a dream for his country. His words are not just merely words and speeches.
According to the people, the speech of Obama was double borrowing. While he used the lines of his friend, he also linked himself to the intellectual and creative thinking of the speakers of the traditional American orators. Obama’s speech for the people was nothing new and fresh, even though they found it brilliant and substantive. He is fond of using ready-made lines and metaphors.
During a debate in Austin, Texas, Barrack Obama and Bill Clinton face against each other and Clinton accused Obama of plagiarism. Obama’s performance on the said debate left the audiences of him being sincere, elegant, and modulated.
It was in 2004 when Ralph Klein presented a segment of his paper to his Athabasca University from the internet. The general public did not have a negative reaction on this and viewed this as a good act. The Athabasca University cleared from being accused of plagiarism and said that what he had done was unintentional. Minister Lyle Oberg later suggested to the president of the university to write to all newspapers of their community and teach Klein a lesson.
Today, a great art becomes a powerful movement, and is being transformed into a different inspirational art. It is being seen by the people as a new presentation and understanding the new meaning it is giving to the old art. For some people, they would rather accept the things like they were before.
Filed under Plagiarism not simply a moral issue by on Mar 23rd, 2010.
Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama from Algonquin is accused of plagiarizing speeches from a 2006 style by Deval Patrick, the Democratic governor of Massachusetts. The Obama style entitled “Words Matter” was delivered in Feb. 16, 2008 during a meeting in Wisconsin and had several similarities with the Apostle style delivered in 2006. Particularly noticeable are the passages wherein both Obama and Apostle list famous historical quotes much as “I have a dream”, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” and “We have null to emotion but emotion itself” in an effort to demonstrate the power of words. Both speeches were delivered in an effort to defend the ingest of speeches and bunk as a crusade strategy. Obama has recently received criticism from Democratic candidate mountaineer Clinton. Clinton’s side claims that Obama does not have enough semipolitical experience to be able to act as a president and that his crusade was built solely on words. In response, Obama delivered his “Words Matter” style wherein he insists that words have the power to change minds and inspire citizens. The politico crusade then latched on to the accusation of plagiarism, bringing to fore the similarities between the Obama and Apostle speeches. Both Obama and Apostle declared that no plagiarism has taken place. Obama reasons discover that he and Apostle are good friends and that they often talk most strategies. Apostle delivered his “Just Words” style in 2006 as retaliation to criticism that he was stricken equipped to appendage real semipolitical problems and that his crusade was streaming solely on well-versed speeches. According to Patrick, after politico made the same accusations of his friend Obama, he encouraged the Algonquin senator to defend himself the same way Apostle did in 2006. Political commentators note that both Obama and Apostle ingest the same crusade team, specially the crusade leader David Axelrod, which may be the think why their strategies are so similar. Obama even retorted that politico herself had begun to ingest some of his crusade buzzwords. These accusations of plagiarism are reminiscent of the incident in 1988 when Democratic presidential candidate Joe Bidden had to drop discover of the vie after coming under fire for plagiarizing a style by Neil Kinnock of the British Labour Party. Barack Obama began his semipolitical career after he announced his intentions of streaming for the Illonois senate in 1995. He became a senator for Algonquin in 2005, which was also the time when he was officially bound in. Hillary Rodham politico was first exposed to politics as the First Lady during the constituent of her husband former American President Bill Clinton, which began in 1993. As a first lady, politico was appointed the chairwoman of the Task Force on National Health Care. At the end of her husband’s term, she was elected senator for New York in 2000 and was re-elected in 2006.
Filed under Political Opinions by on Feb 11th, 2010.