Reply #17: It's not permission, it's ATTRIBUTION that's needed... [View All]

[LadyVT]

the point is, you don't represent a quote from someone else as having been your own invention. That is misleading. If Obama plagiarizes, and people believe he is the one coming up with brilliant quotes (which were originally written by Einstein, the Hopi Elders, MLK, JFK, and others) that is MISLEADING to the American people, especially when he is running on a platform of integrity, honesty, and fairness.

All he has to do is attribute the quotes he uses, and for some reason, he has refused to do that, preferring, instead, for people to think HE came up with this stuff himself.