Is Obama Plagiarizing Elizabeth Warren's speeches?

By Rob Janicki
By now readers here at CP may have heard President Obama's speech on Friday telling Americans by extension...

[...]  “If you’ve got a business, you did not build that–somebody else made that happen,” speaking Friday evening at a campaign event in Roanoke, Va.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I am always struck by people who think, “It must be because I was just so smart.” There are a lot of smart people out there. “It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.” Let me tell you something: There are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you are successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you did not build that–somebody else made that happen. The Internet did not get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off of the Internet. The point is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. [...]


Watch the video below of Elizabeth Warren delivering a very similar, if not the same, speech theme some nine months ago at a small "meet and greet" with constituents in the Boston area.  Then tell me that President "Cut & Paste" didn't lift this very same theme for the speech he gave on Friday.  

One thing is very certain.  Obama did not get to where he is at on his own.  He had an army of handlers, advisers and sycophants willing and able to craft and mold his assets of personality, charm and speechifying to get him elected to the presidency with no relevant experience whatsoever.  

Obama may easily be the most intellectually lazy president in recent history and his speech on Friday, when compared to the speech given by Elizabeth Warren nine months ago illustrates this point.  Obama runs the most powerful country in the world by using "cut and paste" methods and Cliff Notes for Civics and Economics 101.  For a man who has never held a real private sector job in his entire adult life, to criticize business owners for their success, is not only ludicrous, but the epitome of hypocrisy and personal hubris.