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Liar, Liar: Did Biden Really Just Rehash the Story That Torched His 1988 Presidential Hopes?

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Maybe Biden thought we all forgot. We didn’t. Did you notice that anecdote he replayed again during CNN’s town hall event? The little story about how he was the first in his family to go to college. It was an anecdote that helped kill Biden’s 1988 presidential hopes. He plagiarized portions of a speech from then-UK Labour Leader Neil Kinnock.

As Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist noted, some in the liberal media tweeted the excerpt out last night unaware of the devastating impact it had on Biden’s campaign in the 1980s. Also, it’s in keeping with other lies Biden has doled out about his academic record. He’s no scholar, folks. And at times when he’s spoken about his high IQ with regards to his supposed academic achievement—there’s no evidence to demonstrate that point at all. In fact, during his years in law school, Biden actually plagiarized some reviews there as well (via The Federalist) [Bold text indicates Biden’s rant]:

Biden’s first failed run for the presidency was ended by his dishonesty over his academic record and his plagiarism, including the biography and speeches of British Labor politician Neil Kinnock. . .

BIDEN: I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect. I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my — in my class to have a full academic scholarship. In the first year in law school I decided didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class, and then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school, and in fact ended up in the top half of my class. I won the international moot-court competition. I was the outstanding student in the political science department at the end of my year. I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits — I only needed 123 credits. And I’d be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like Frank.

It turned out that Biden did not receive a full academic scholarship, but a half scholarship based on financial need. He did not end up in the top half of his class, but near the very bottom. There is no record of him winning the moot court competition. He did not receive the outstanding student award at the University of Delaware. And he graduated with only one degree.

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Colin Powell Makes His Presidential Choice Official

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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced Tuesday that he will be supporting Hillary Clinton in November’s presidential election.

The retired four-star Army general and a Republican who served in the George W. Bush administration, made the announcement during a luncheon on New York’s Long Island.

According to Newsday reporter Robert Brodsky, Powell said Republican nominee Donald Trump “insults us every day” and is “selling people a bill of goods.”

Past correspondences reveal that Powell seemed to dislike Trump from the outset. In a leaked email, Powell referred to the Republican nominee as a “national disgrace” and “international pariah.” In a separate email, he claimed the birther movement was a “racist” conspiracy theory which Trump had no business propping up.

Clinton, too, has also given Powell a fair share of problems, particularly when it came to her comments that suggested Powell was the one who suggested she use of a private email server to conduct government business.

“I didn’t tell Hillary to have a private server at home, connected to the Clinton Foundation, two contractors, took away 60,000 emails, had her own domain,” Powell said in the emails leaked last month.

“I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect,” Powell wrote in another leaked email. “A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still d—ing bimbos at home (according to the [New York Post]).”

“Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris,” he added.

Powell also referred to the investigations into Benghazi, Libya, as a “stupid witch hunt”

“Benghazi is a stupid witch hunt,” he wrote in an email. “Basic fault falls on a courageous ambassador who thoughts Libyans now love me and I am ok in this very vulnerable place.”

Other Bush administration veterans have crossed party lines to endorse Clinton, including former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Chairman Brent Scowcroft, former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.

During his endorsement, Powell claimed that Clinton will serve with distinction and cited her experience and stamina. (For more from the author of “Colin Powell Makes His Presidential Choice Official” please click HERE)

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