Biden on Plagarism and the Presidency

Senator Joe Biden credits plagarism with saving his life and making it possible for him to run for the presidency in 2008...

When Senator Joe Biden infamously plagiarised one of Neil Kinnock’s speeches 20 years ago, it destroyed his campaign to become president of the United States.
But, according to the former Labour leader yesterday, Mr Biden believed it also probably saved his life — giving him unexpected time for diagnosis and treatment of a brain condition — and gave him the chance to fight again another day.

Read the article here in the Times.