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entitled "The China Problem"

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Stupid Sarah (Palin) takes swipes at the media

must be feeling tough in the wake of her so-called redeeming performance during last night's debate because all of a sudden she's reinvigorated, blaming the media for asking less than substantive questions.

Oh the irony!!!!!

Canada PM faces plagiarism claim

Canada PM faces plagiarism claim
By Lee Carter
BBC News, Toronto
Mr Harper (right) has been depicting himself as honest during the campaign A Canadian Conservative Party speech-writer has resigned after Prime Minister Stephen Harper was accused of plagiarising a speech he made in 2003.

Owen Lippert admitted he had been "overzealous in copying segments" of a speech in support of the invasion of Iraq by then Australian PM John Howard.

Mr Lippert said neither his superiors nor Mr Harper, who was opposition leader at the time, had been aware.

The accusation comes half-way through a general election campaign.

Mr Harper called the snap election for 14 October last month, hoping to either bolster his minority, or obtain a majority government, for which he would need to win 28 more seats in parliament.

Opinion polls suggest he is within striking distance of doing so.

'Pressed for time'

The speech by Mr Harper was originally made on 20 March 2003 as the House of Commons in Ottawa held an emergency debate at the beginning of the US-led war in Iraq.

In the debate, Mr Harper urged Canada and the Liberal government to join the so-called "coalition of the willing".



COMPARE THE SPEECHES 2003 speeches by John Howard and Stephen Harper [120KB]Source: Liberal Party of Canada Most computers will open this document automatically, but you may need Adobe Reader Download the reader here Five years later at a campaign stop on Tuesday, during an increasingly bitter election campaign, Liberal MP Bob Rae made an incendiary accusation.

Mr Harper's 2003 speech had been made almost word-for-word two days before in Canberra by his former Australian counterpart, John Howard, he said.

And just to prove it, portions of the speech were played side by side.

"In the interests of world peace and regional security... The community of nations required Iraq to surrender," Mr Howard said in his speech.

"In the interests of peace and regional security... The community of nations required Iraq to surrender," Mr Harper said days later.

Conservative campaign officials initially refused to discuss the matter, but eventually Mr Lippert announced his resignation.

"Pressed for time, I was overzealous in copying segments of another world leader's speech," he said in a statement.

"Neither my superiors in the office of the leader of the opposition nor the leader of the opposition was aware that I had done so."

The revelation comes during an election campaign that has focussed heavily on leadership, with Prime Minister Harper depicting himself as honest and dependable, contrasting himself to the main opposition Liberal leader, Stephane Dion.

Mr Dion is behind in the polls and has been criticised for poor leadership and communication skills.

McLame done and everybody including the pundits know it

This guy is finished, and choosing Palin (Caribou Barbie) for running mate didn't help much either.

The comedy continues. Sarah Palin contradicts McSame's stance on
Pakistan

and actually voices an opinion congruent with Obama's.


McCain retracts Palin's Pakistan comments Posted: 11:15 AM ET
From CNN's Emily Sherman
Watch: Gov. Sarah Palin answers questions at Tony Lukes in South Philadelphia.

WASHINGTON (CNN)— Sen. John McCain retracted Sarah Palin's stance on Pakistan Sunday morning, after the Alaska governor appeared to back Sen. Barack Obama's support for unilateral strikes inside Pakistan against terrorists

"She would not…she understands and has stated repeatedly that we're not going to do anything except in America's national security interest," McCain told ABC's George Stephanopoulos of Palin. "In all due respect, people going around and… sticking a microphone while conversations are being held, and then all of a sudden that's—that's a person's position… This is a free country, but I don't think most Americans think that that's a definitve policy statement made by Governor Palin."

Saturday night, while on a stop for cheesesteaks in South Philadelphia, Palin was questioned by a Temple graduate student about whether the U.S. should cross the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan.

"If that's what we have to do stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should," Palin said.

During Friday night's presidential debate in Mississippi, Obama took a similar stance and condemned the Bush administration for failing to act on the possibility terrorists are in Pakistan.

"Nobody talked about attacking Pakistan," Obama said after McCain accused the Illinois senator of wanting to announce an invasion. "If the United States has al Qaeda, bin Laden, top-level lieutenants in our sights, and Pakistan is unable or unwilling to act, then we should take them out."

McCain emphasized Sunday, Palin "shares" his view on the matter.