RAND PAUL SAYS BEING FALSELY ACCUSED OF PLAGIARISM IS A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY

by R J Shulman

WASHINGTON – (PTSD News Service) – Striking back at those who have accused him for plagiarizing parts of his speeches and writing, Senator Rand Paul said, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live the true meaning of its creed and stop criticizing me for speaking my own mind just because someone may have said something like it first.”

Rand Paul denied any wrongdoing and said, “So you should all ask not what plagiarism can do for you but what you can do for plagiarism.  While I may have unwittingly used words similar to ones spoken before, all I can say from the bottom of my heart in these clearly original words is that to err is human, to forgive is divine because God helps those who help themselves so hitch your wagon to a star because fools rush in where angels fear to tread and never leave what you can do today until tomorrow because early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”   

Paul says he is preparing to officially dispel any notion that he is a plagiarist on the Senate floor with a speech he is writing that he calls “The Four Score and Seven Years Ago Address.”