{"id":16995,"date":"2013-01-21T12:42:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16995"},"modified":"2013-01-22T09:46:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T14:46:12","slug":"obama-plagiarizes-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16995\/obama-plagiarizes-reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Plagiarizes Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This really isn&#8217;t a big deal, but it still rankles. Today, Barack Obama included a line in his speech that was almost a direct quotation from Ronald Reagan, but he gave no attribution. When Reagan uttered it, it was an original and interesting turn of phrase.<\/p>\n<p>Here:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether we come from poverty or wealth; whether we are Afro-American or Irish-American; Christian or Jewish, from big cities or small towns, <strong><em>we are all equal in the eyes of God. But as Americans, that is not enough, we must be equal in the eyes of each other.<\/em><\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obama today: &#8220;We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American, she is free, and <strong><em>she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This really isn&#8217;t a big deal, but it still rankles. Today, Barack Obama included a line in his speech that was almost a direct quotation from Ronald Reagan, but he gave no attribution. When Reagan uttered it, it was an original and interesting turn of phrase. Here: &#8220;Whether we come from poverty or wealth; whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4005,24,1704,1425],"class_list":["post-16995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-equal","tag-obama","tag-reagan","tag-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16998,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16995\/revisions\/16998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}