Rand Paul plagiarizes Wikipedia in at least two public speeches

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Good thing no one watches Rachel Maddow. But yeah, fire the speechwriter.

Saw it yesterday. Actually was tuning in to the show that comes on after and caught a snippet.  I thought it was funny.  I don't think it's a big deal.  I mean I think it shows how little intellectually is going on in Paul's head but we already knew that.

Personally I don't think a career in politics is for me.  I couldn't stand having to give a billion speeches a year.  I would probably start paraphrasing different people just to get through it.  Multiple direct quotes from Wikipedia about some pop culture thing is a little pathetic though.

Anyway I wish we lived in a society where the wealthy had more children and the desperately poor used abortion to limit their numbers.  Instead it is the other way round.  Not sure what is noble about a society of rich people who limit the number of children they have so they can indulge themselves and poor people who spit out hordes of children because ph-cking is their only entertainment and they don't give a rat's @$$ about the miserable future their children are going to have.

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Remember his medical certification controversy in 2010?

That was hardly a "controversy."  He is practicing with the same credentials the majority of the doctors practiced with in the 1990s.  I bet if your family physician is over 50 they are practicing with the equivalent credentials.

The various specialization boards made a loop hole that excuses the old timers from the recertification exams.  Frankly if I could weasel out of taking them I would to.  They are worse than useless.  They don't have them in other countries and for most of modern medicine in America they didn't have them.  It's just more useless expense and paperwork.

I agree with Rand on this one.  I just wish he would get his story correct and figure out a way to articulate his personal values.  I really can't see a libertarian submitting to the recertification exams without a fight.  The problem is the average American knows next to nothing about medicine so they have no idea how to evaluate credentials.  And thus the "controversy."