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The neophyte and the plagiarist, or Obama makes his choice

August 23, 2008 - 4:59 am - by Roger Kimball
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2008-08-25 13:13:02

“And shame on Obama for lauding the proponent of seperate-but-equal partition for Iraq. That idea was rejected here, from within, by Abraham Lincoln.”

Um, no. The legal doctrine of “separate but equal” was upheld by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson three decades after Lincoln’s death. It wasn’t struck down until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.