Is McCain lifting passages from Solzhenitsyn?

When is a lie a lie? If John McCain borrowed his answer from history, he was lying to us? He told the story as a first person, he wasn't talking about someone else.

If it was a true statement, it should show up in past campaign conversations? He would have referenced it in the past. Something so profound wouldn't have taken until 2008 to remember. Can anyone find where he referenced the Cross in the sand before Campaign '08?

When is a lie a lie? Move along, just a little lie, nothing to see here. Its okay, everyone does it? How are we ever going to get honesty back in America? Expose and shame the people who choose to lie on camera! There is only one answer to the question. Did John McCain tell the truth? Did it happen to him, or did he use it because he could? Shame should accompany an exposed fabrication of fact (lie). What are we teaching the children? Its okay to lie, if no one says shame on you, it is acceptable?

If John McCain has told the story before and it is fact, I humbly apologize for my mistrust. Trust, but verify is a rule to live by. How can his future stories be trusted, if it is proven he distorted the facts about the cross in the sand and no shame followed, why would he stop with that lie?

...And everyone knows this article wouldn't have come up if Solzhenitsyn hadn't kicked the bucket a little while ago.

Ha ha! And Obama has NEVER plagerized a speech or made up a story. He still telling that yarn about his father herding goats? Oh well, it's "just words". Too funny.

Hell, look at Hillary Clinton and her little fib about her trip to Bosnia. Who was it that said you should never let a good story get in the way of the truth? These candidates must of taken that saying to the soul.

Yes, but has Obama used what he borrowed from other sources to make it look like a personal experience?

I watched the whole Warren "non-debate" again to get a fresh perspective.
Senator Obama answered Rev. Rick directly, eye to eye, considering each word carefully. He seemed unrehearsed.
Senator McCain was so well prepared by his staff that he came across, to me, as a man pandering to the audience. He's polished up his anecdotes at town hall meetings to the point where they ring hollow.
As to whether he "borrowed" from other sources, Senator Obama's been accused of that as well.
It's all in the game.

The man is in his 70's, maybe he's showing his age if you catch my drift.

I also saw this scene in an old movie. Anthony Quinn is a roman slave working in a sulpher mine. Ever wonder if J.M. has a J.C. complex?

This seems more than very likely. McCain has about as much imagination as the head on a pin and has nothing to offer.