One Response to “Will Hillary Clinton Replace Joe Biden on Obama Ticket?”

1. Richard K. Cook on September 26th, 2008 6:29 pm

   Speaking as an American, not as a lifelong Republican who served two Presidents, Nixon and Ford, Nixon in the White House and Gerald Ford when he was GOP leader in the House, I hope Obama stops overlooking the fact that Biden is a serial plagiarist, once in 1988 when he stole UK Labor leader, Neil Kinnock’s, identity, and at least three times when he got caught doing it at Syracuse University Law School. Then, as if that were not enough, last week he faked a helicopter shoot down incideent involving him in Afghanistan, when in reality, it turns out that it was forced down by snow. Talk about a “snow job” in front of the National Guard Association, no less.

   In my mind, plagiarism ranks right behind murder on the rating scale, as it is the same as taking a slice of another person’s brains and calling the product your own. In today’s parlance, it is “identity theft,” but much worse. Typically, when one gets caught, it suggests that the crime likely was commited at least ten times that undetected.

   On top of that, he’s a mean-tempered man. More than 30 years ago, at a Senate Committee hearing, my boss, Lockheed CEO Dan Haughton, was humiliated by Biden’s show-boating for the cameras during a hearing on the Lockheed foerign payments scandals — even though Lockheed (with the advice of our outside attorney, former Secretary of State William Rogers) had cooperated fully with the Justice Department and the Senate Committe. At that time, foreign payments in behalf of marketing sales were then within the law. Haughton, a proud leader (son of a miner, worked his way through the Univeristy of Alabama, where he was class president and Phi Beta Kappa, led Lockheed in the days when it produced brakthrough weapons systems (Polaris missiles, F-104s, C-130s and many more top secret programs that helped win the Cold War. On the way out of the hearing, I turned to Dan and said, “If it takes the rest of my life, Dan, I’ll get even with that SOB someday. But he was a broken man, resigned under pressure the next day, and went home to Georgia to die.

   “Someday” is today.

   Here’s to you Dan.

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