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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Obama Caught Stealing More Lines From Deval Patrick

This time it happened before Patrick and Obama talked.

“In a telephone interview on Sunday, Mr. Patrick said that he and Mr. Obama first talked about the attacks from their respective rivals last summer, when Mrs. Clinton was raising questions about Mr. Obama’s experience, and that they discussed them again last week,” the Times’ Jeff Zeleny wrote. “Patrick said he told Mr. Obama that he should respond to the criticism, and he shared language from his campaign with Mr. Obama’s speechwriters.”

But Obama was quoted using Patrick’s language before the Summer of 2007 . . . .

Patrick in June 2006, at the Massachusetts Democratic party convention: “I am not asking anybody to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.”

Obama one year later, as quoted in USA Today: “I am not asking anyone to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.”

Here’s Deval Patrick:

Here’s Barack Obama:

Why does this matter?  Because Obama’s eloquence and authenticity are the platform of his campaign.  He’s not campaigning on specific policies, he’s campaigning on “change.” And proof that he’s been swiping the lines he uses at those awe-inspiring campaign events from other politicians shows that he represents not so much “change” but just another power-hungry, scruples-challenged unoriginal politician.

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Wouldn’t Joe Biden make a great choice for Obama’s VP?


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on February 19, 2008 at 02:50 pm

Reading some of the comments left at Jake Tapper’s blog, cited above, its apparent that the food fight among Democrats is getting especially vicious.

By summertime, this could make the 1965 Watts riots look tame.


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on February 19, 2008 at 02:59 pm
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Wouldn’t Joe Biden make a great choice for Obama’s VP?

That was actually pretty funny.

Jay on February 19, 2008 at 04:25 pm
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Plagiarism is the highest form of a Democrat’s flattery!



Barack Obama: All hat and no cattle since 1997!


Proof on February 19, 2008 at 05:09 pm
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The kind folks at this website: http://martinlutherking.org/ have tons of proof documenting Martin Luther King’s plagiarism. What are the odds?

Todd on February 19, 2008 at 06:56 pm
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I don’t think that site has a whole lot of credibility.

On the other hand, it’s absolutely true that Barack Obama has been cribbing some of his speeches from other people.


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Rob on February 19, 2008 at 07:11 pm

What’s the big deal?

They’ve all been plagerizing Marx and Hitler for the past century.


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poetryman69 on February 20, 2008 at 05:50 pm
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