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Orrex

(63,297 posts)
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:24 AM Jul 2016

Aside from the bit that she stole from Michelle Obama, Melania's speech was pretty good

I especially loved this part:

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

Quite moving, and so original!
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Aside from the bit that she stole from Michelle Obama, Melania's speech was pretty good (Original Post) Orrex Jul 2016 OP
She was stiff and only looking at the teleprompters liberal N proud Jul 2016 #1
She looked like she was sleep walking. greatauntoftriplets Jul 2016 #19
Is the OP a joke???? This part of the Gettysburg address. n/t patricia92243 Jul 2016 #2
Of course not. These are common words. Orrex Jul 2016 #4
They're so common you can find them in any dictionary Trekologer Jul 2016 #5
And they're some of the best words SnowCritter Jul 2016 #17
Y'all are funny this morning! AllyCat Jul 2016 #30
The speech was good, other than a few words, or other than that Mrs. Lincoln . . . ? brush Jul 2016 #50
You wouldn't have lasted, if you'd seen the OP'S infamous banned sig line. nt msanthrope Jul 2016 #10
I was robbed, I tell ya! Orrex Jul 2016 #35
I'd call you a dingbat in honor of that great DUer, but I fear so few would get the joke. nt msanthrope Jul 2016 #40
Wow--that's a blast from the past Orrex Jul 2016 #41
Those are just various unrelated words taken from common English. toddwv Jul 2016 #63
However, she will only be known for the section that was copied avebury Jul 2016 #3
She PLAGIARIZED a speech from someone the Trumps HATE AllyCat Jul 2016 #29
Think about it - a group of Americans who hate all things Obama... LynneSin Jul 2016 #39
lol Quackers Jul 2016 #6
#BeckyWithTheBorrowedSpeech Rose Siding Jul 2016 #7
. BlueMTexpat Jul 2016 #8
This part made me cry..... msanthrope Jul 2016 #9
She's an inspiration. Orrex Jul 2016 #11
When she described being born a poor black child, raised dancing and singing on a front msanthrope Jul 2016 #13
Have You Gone to Twitter erpowers Jul 2016 #16
Oh yeah.....my handle is in my sig line. nt msanthrope Jul 2016 #23
You guys are funny. Cha Jul 2016 #51
The screwed up the echo part underpants Jul 2016 #53
She's not running!!!11!! Kingofalldems Jul 2016 #12
Haha! alcibiades_mystery Jul 2016 #24
+1, I was a recipient of that one yesterday. fleabiscuit Jul 2016 #34
a date which will live in infamy rpannier Jul 2016 #14
Twitter erpowers Jul 2016 #18
This one: Kingofalldems Jul 2016 #21
She's not very good at drawing eyebrows. tclambert Jul 2016 #28
Twitter erpowers Jul 2016 #15
I don't do twitter rpannier Jul 2016 #20
This part was a bit chilling. greatauntoftriplets Jul 2016 #22
lol Liberal_in_LA Jul 2016 #65
The soft bigotry of low expectations. Paladin Jul 2016 #25
SPOT ON Cosmocat Jul 2016 #44
Also when she said "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Genius! DanTex Jul 2016 #26
Favorite twitter reply: "What's more American than a white person stealing a black person's work?" tclambert Jul 2016 #27
It's how we made it great in the first place, so nothing new. n/t jtuck004 Jul 2016 #31
Great quote! Paladin Jul 2016 #46
I see what you did there, Orrex...and I love it! ms liberty Jul 2016 #32
.. mcar Jul 2016 #33
Respectfully I have to disagree the best was near the end when she said Statistical Jul 2016 #36
Plagergate alfredo Jul 2016 #37
I liked the end when she serenaded us with a song she wrote and sang herself.... LynneSin Jul 2016 #38
Here's that video clip Fritz Walter Jul 2016 #47
Or this one csziggy Jul 2016 #57
You RickRolled my RickRoll! Fritz Walter Jul 2016 #60
Well plagiarism is the headline on all the news outlets I've seen this morning. greymattermom Jul 2016 #42
Best comment I saw to the explanation, "she used common words." mountain grammy Jul 2016 #43
I would guess that most of those at the convention would not know Common. niyad Jul 2016 #56
Not at the level of Palin word salad but close A mix of red meat meme bits aimed at the illiterates Monk06 Jul 2016 #45
Am I having a senior moment or did Lincoln say that first? Mind you I may or may not have been Laser102 Jul 2016 #48
Nonsense. Lincoln stole that from her. nt Quackers Jul 2016 #59
Something needs to be rewritten by the RNC packman Jul 2016 #49
LOL@"Aside from the bit that she stole from Michelle Obama" Cha Jul 2016 #52
triumph the insult comic dog's stealth appearance after the convention was over Gabi Hayes Jul 2016 #54
Melania Vanilli klook Jul 2016 #55
I liked it when she quoted Lobachevsky REP Jul 2016 #58
I dunno I think she lifted part of that from someone else, I know tinfoil hat time... Rex Jul 2016 #61
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. toddwv Jul 2016 #62
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you AgadorSparticus Jul 2016 #64

liberal N proud

(60,352 posts)
1. She was stiff and only looking at the teleprompters
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:36 AM
Jul 2016

There was no passion as was evident when shown side-by-side next to the original Michelle Obama speech.

toddwv

(2,830 posts)
63. Those are just various unrelated words taken from common English.
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:06 PM
Jul 2016

No really... that's the way they're trying to spin it.

avebury

(10,953 posts)
3. However, she will only be known for the section that was copied
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:39 AM
Jul 2016

from Michelle Obama's speech. It doesn't matter how good the rest of the speech is or how well she did or didn't deliver it.

AllyCat

(16,275 posts)
29. She PLAGIARIZED a speech from someone the Trumps HATE
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:13 AM
Jul 2016

So, yeah, I would say that eclipses the rest of the speech. Of course, the speech in the OP isn't hers either.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
39. Think about it - a group of Americans who hate all things Obama...
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:52 AM
Jul 2016

just cheered on Michelle Obama's speech.

Sometimes I think Donald Trump is trying to fail miserably at running for president just to embarrass the GOP. But the Tea Party folks are so stupid they have no fricking clue this is happening.

 

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)
9. This part made me cry.....
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:25 AM
Jul 2016


Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. 
 

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)
13. When she described being born a poor black child, raised dancing and singing on a front
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:31 AM
Jul 2016

porch in Mississippi, I really choked up..

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alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
24. Haha!
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:56 AM
Jul 2016


That's the troll line on things for sure.

It's telling the trolls who mare running that line. They are really outing themselves on this one.


rpannier

(24,353 posts)
14. a date which will live in infamy
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:34 AM
Jul 2016

though I must admit I almost cried when she said
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for Donal... your country

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
15. Twitter
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:39 AM
Jul 2016

You should take your quote to twitter. There is a twitter hashtag called FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes. People are taking the famous quotes of other people and attributing them to Melania Trump.

greatauntoftriplets

(175,776 posts)
22. This part was a bit chilling.
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:47 AM
Jul 2016
Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!—One; two: why, then
'tis time to do't.—Hell is murky.—Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and
afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our
pow'r to accompt?—Yet who would have thought the old man to
have had so much blood in him?

Paladin

(28,290 posts)
25. The soft bigotry of low expectations.
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:00 AM
Jul 2016

Face it: the fact that Ms. Trump could get a few intelligible phrases out---even the ones she stole from Ms. Obama---assured that she'd get good reviews from certain quarters.

Maybe Trump Jr. will use the Gettysburg language in his presentation tonight.......

Cosmocat

(14,596 posts)
44. SPOT ON
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 10:11 AM
Jul 2016

It was a half hearted, cut and past speech that she simply got up and read off of a teleprompter, and for the first hour or so the republicans and their whore media lackeys were in PREPROGRAMMED orgasm mode, breathlessly saying how incredible she was.

tclambert

(11,087 posts)
27. Favorite twitter reply: "What's more American than a white person stealing a black person's work?"
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:12 AM
Jul 2016

And that's how you make America great again.

ms liberty

(8,631 posts)
32. I see what you did there, Orrex...and I love it!
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:22 AM
Jul 2016

The jokes just write themselves with these republicans, don't they? This is a great thread, btw!
K&R

Statistical

(19,264 posts)
36. Respectfully I have to disagree the best was near the end when she said
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:35 AM
Jul 2016
We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
38. I liked the end when she serenaded us with a song she wrote and sang herself....
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:51 AM
Jul 2016
Blame it on the rain (rain)
Blame it on the stars (stars)
Whatever you do don't put the blame on you
Blame it on the rain yeah yeah
You can blame it on the rain
Get
Ooh, ooh (ooh)
I can't, I can't. I can't, can't stand the rain
I can't, I can't. I can't, can't stand the rain
Yeah, yeah


greymattermom

(5,754 posts)
42. Well plagiarism is the headline on all the news outlets I've seen this morning.
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 10:03 AM
Jul 2016

Melania upstaged the stop Trump folks, right? Maybe they did this on purpose.

Monk06

(7,675 posts)
45. Not at the level of Palin word salad but close A mix of red meat meme bits aimed at the illiterates
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 10:12 AM
Jul 2016

in the audience who aren`t Slovenian

The mix of tenses reads like some mad Hunter S Thomson drug riff

Laser102

(816 posts)
48. Am I having a senior moment or did Lincoln say that first? Mind you I may or may not have been
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 10:23 AM
Jul 2016

there, but it certainly sounds familiar. Gettysburg? Please correct if I'm wrong.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
49. Something needs to be rewritten by the RNC
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 10:25 AM
Jul 2016

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for Donald Trump to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of privilege and of wealthh entitle them, a one-sided respect to the opinions of white, entitled mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that some men (but not women) are created more equal than others, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are the good Life, unbridled Liberty and the pursuit of self-centered Happiness. That to secure these rights, we went our form of Government to be instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the entitled governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the 1 to 3 % to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to not impact their wealth and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under equal right nonsense, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security and their silver spooned children. —

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
61. I dunno I think she lifted part of that from someone else, I know tinfoil hat time...
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 03:32 PM
Jul 2016

"A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke."

"Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done."

"Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man.""

toddwv

(2,830 posts)
62. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 08:05 PM
Jul 2016


And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

AgadorSparticus

(7,963 posts)
64. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you
Wed Jul 20, 2016, 02:27 AM
Jul 2016

--ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

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