The Future President, Donald Trump

“From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise; that you treat people with respect,” Trump told the thousands of Republican delegates and assembled media on Monday night in Cleveland.

In 2008, Mrs. Obama said, “You work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them.”

Trump’s spouse also lifted a line about children from Michelle Obama, saying, “We want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”

In 2008, Michelle Obama said, “We want our children — and all children in this nation — to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”

Wonder if the press, in this more tumultuous election cycle, will do the same with Melanie.

parados wrote:

I don't think Christie will last too long as an attack dog over any email issue.

I think he'll do just fine attacking on emails. The Democratic counterattacks on the topic are pretty silly in my view. But Mr. Trump isn't soliciting my opinion.

And yet, not a single word here about the content of any of the GOP speeches by Trump's family members or anyone else.

And yet, not a single word here about the content of any of the GOP speeches by Trump's family members or anyone else. Not a word of discussion of any of the political ideas expressed by Paul Ryan, Donald Trump Jr., Jeff Sessions, Kimberlin Brown.

No mention of Trump's daughter Tiffany's description of Trump as a father.

No mention of the speeches given by the people present during the Benghazi attack or by their families.

It's as though the whole convention began and ended with the tiny fraction of Mrs. Trump's speech that some speech writer was stupid enough to plagiarize. If one of Hillary's speeches had turned out to contain a tiny duplication of another person's words, the A2K liberals would be falling all over themselves trying to excuse her and saying that some speech writer had done her a disservice. Didn't Joe Biden copy without attribution part of the speech of a Welsh labor leader when he ran for president in 1987?

The fact is that the liberals will scan every word, image, and shape in a pro-Trump speech for any scrap that can possibly be made to look bad.

It would be interesting to re-examine Hillary's past speeches to see if any little bit had ever been said by anyone else before.