Obama Campaign On Defensive, Points Plagiarism to Clinton

It’s common to use phrases that you hear that are catchy. In fact I think we all can think of words or phrases that if you hear one more time you think you will puke. ie. Awesome,dude,like totally, snap, true that etc.

The problem with Obama’s words, aside from the fact that htye arent his, it is that they just are words..His words dont call into action in stopping foreclosures, getting people healthcare, stopping oil dependency. So as awesome some of the words are – the words that he has borrowed had a bigger impact from other leaders becuase they were more than just vote for me..They actually provided solutions..

Obama is using same technique as rappers. They get sampling of melody or tunes that stick and make it their own. Same old stuff only different artist. From the get go, I do not really see anything original about Obama. You could find lots of his phrases from self-help books or motivational speakers. People should just go to therapy if they want this kind of talk and elect someone more qualified.

Obama has stolen an entire speech ,used words to his convenience and hads the audacity to attack Hillary on catch phrases.What a low act.He should apologize or quit the race…

I left Obama at REZCO. No more need for garbage on this empty suite.

Obama is not only words but they are other people’s words. He cries change but has accepted more money from lobbyists than any presidential candidate in history. Wake up people you are falling for a dog and pony show!

Are some of you sleeping the issues is not coping a line from someone the man took the entire speech of Patrick and recited it word for word all he did was change around the order on the presentation. If Obama wants to come off as this great leader in the likes of MLK and that is what he is pretending to be, but MLK wrote his own stuff he did not need to copy or get pointers from others to make a speech. Now that you all are caught in this hoodwinking exercise some of you are making excuses to cover up his faults, he pretended to be something he is not, he used another man’s words then claimed he makes great speeches, if he was this talented why did he need to do it that is the first question, and they other is how far is he willing to go to pretend that he is one way and not the other just to get the post of President.

Was he not the one to say that Hillary will do and say anything to win looks as if he better rethink that position because that claim sure looks like its falling at his doorstep now

Barack Obama tried to compare himself to Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King.
Barack Obama with his inexperience, is starting to remind us a Dan Quayle who tried to compare himself to John F. Kennedy in the 1988 debate. Senator Lloyd Bentsen responded to Dan Quayle with the famous quote:
“Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”

Facts: Mr. Obama used an entire speech without mentioning to the public it was indeed someone else’s speech. That is pure and simple plagiarism. He should apologize and drop out of the race now. “I give good speeches”.. Yes, but they are someone else’s words.
Doesn’t matter if he and Deval are friends or not and even if he gave Obama permission to use his speech, he should have been given the proper credit.

SHAEFUL TO STEAL OBAMA’S WORDS. HE IS THE REAL CANDIDATE TO WIN NOMINATION AND GENERAL ELECTION. MC CAIN CAN’T STAND HIM AT ALL. GO BARACK OBAMA ’08 .

For my family, it is Obama. We would never vote for liar Hillary or war monger McCain. It is either Obama or a third party for certain for us.

Obama will get the nomination or at least five million of his supporters will not vote for a totally dishonest Clinton.

If you are a former Obama supporter, don’t feel too bad. Biden was knocked off his pedestal a few years back for similar behavior, and yet he was able to rise from the ashes and run for President a second time. Maybe Obama will also do as well as Biden the second time out. (ROFL)

Clutching at straws. Clutching at straws.

The difference is those famous quotes they both used had an actual powerful meaning behind them. For instance if “we have nothing to fear but fear itself” was in reference to dealing with Healthcare in America, afraid of how to pay for it etc… Then no one would notice. But when a Nation unjustly attacked needs to send its young men into service to defend herself, the words are indeed powerful. So much like the platitudes and rhetoric of these candidates there just is no substance.

I would say he looks like “a wolf in sheeps clothing” but I’m afraid it’s already taken.

Are you kidding me? Obama has copywritten the phrases “fired up” and “Turn the page”? I hate to rain again on his “originality” but I believe these might have been spoken prior to his candidacy – in fact one is an old Seger song. And every election year there is a “Candidate of Change”. I keep waiting for him to say something substantive that couldn’t immediately be printed on a bumper sticker or a t-shirt, but as time goes on, I’m thinking that’s not gonna happen. I want to like him, I really do – but damn! Give me something, man!

The phrase “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” was said by F.D.Roosevelt and if memory serves me, Winston Churchill during WW II.

Just illustrates how pathetic the Obama camp is. He can not even right his own speeches. I wonder if he is elected who’s Inauguration speech will he use? He wants to say that Clinton uses his words-yet another illustration of his stupidity. They all use phrases like that, not ENTIRE SPEECHES! It’s time this country realizes he is not cut out for this job!

HILLARY WHERE ARE YOUR TAX RECEIPTS? WHY ARE YOU WAITING TO RELEASE EM, AFTER THE ELECTION? WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE?

I think it is clear that the Obama team has an evangelical vent and that Clinton is much more detailed or pragmatic and that is not as appealing to people because it reminds them of problems that they must face. I despise the Obama speeches. Can you tell? They all seem so phony and now that has been verified for me with this latest thing. I love the way his machine says it is not plagiarism, but rather “just sharing riffs” Ya have to wonder how that term plays in Peoria… The more interesting thing is that if this had been Hillary doing this, it would be a big topic. I guess the media doesn’t want to shatter the centerpiece to his popularity…his speeches, which it turns out aren’t even original. I guess the reality is that Obama is just another pretty face with a very, shallow, media-created image to drive his candidacy. Oh my. Just wait for that Republican machine to kick in…

I’m a friend of Plato and Shakespeare too.

OBAMA WILL BE THE PARTY NOMINEE AND THE NEXT PRESIDENT!

Finally the “Messiah Barack” is being called on his ordinariness. Plus I like the fact that it’s now revealed that he and that failure of a governor Deval Patrick are friends, and have a lot of the same ideas. (NOT good)…
Democrats fighting each other. A GOP’s dream. And we didn’t have to spend a dime. Thank you God! :)

Obama is desperate for John Edwards to campaign for him but John Edwards should remain undecided until he finds out who wins the nomination. I believe Obama knows that Hillary is ahead of him in TX, OH & PA and he wants John Edwards to campaign with him in those states. Obama will possibly win Wisconsin because Hillary was late campaigning there. Besides that, why was Gov. Doyle so upset about Hillary not campaigning there right away when he endorsed Obama weeks ago. It certainly doesn’t make sense to me. Well, Hillary is campaigning in Wisconsin for what I don’t know because I think her chances are slim but we have to wait and see what happens. I hope she wins in Hawaii Obama’s birthplace.

I HAVE NOT HEARD WHAT HILLARY WANT TO DO FOR US SINCE SHE STARTED LOSING. SHE NEEDS TO FOCUS ON THE ISSUES. THESE NEGATIVE ATTACKS WILL NOT SWAY ME.

This example says a lot about the man’s integrity. He should have just answered the question directly and left it at that. Instead, he jumps on Clinton and says she copied HIS slogans. It shows what type of leader he really is. Has anyone seen Bush & Obama in the same room? They may be the same person.

I am so glad this has been exposed. The American people need to know now what kind of a person they are voting for. Obama’s claim to fame has been his oratory…and now we find out he copies verbatim. What an eye opener!

if obama is the party nominee the next president will be a republican

Someone needs to tell Sen. Obama that two wrongs don’t make a right. He’s portraiting himself as being above the normal politics but he’s doing what normal politicians do, people expect better from him. He’s suppose to be a leader not a follower. My mother would always ask, “If all of your friends jump off a bridge are you going to jump too”, maybe he’s not as great as he would like us to believe.

YES HE CAN…. THIS SALES MAN IS PHONY…The rookie sales man is doing plagiarism. This is shame for copying somebody’s speech! The sales man is following HRC footstep when it comes to economy.
What happened between this rookie sales man and REZKO? Is the rookie will return the house and lot that he bought from this scum? YES HE CAN…. but I don’t think so because they are both scum….Blood sticker than water, YES HE CAN!
What happened to his present votes? He did not even know how to vote yes or no for a difficult legislation? This is a fact. A first grader knows how to differentiate Yes or No. It was wrong, and it will always be wrong. How can you vote for person who does not have that capacity? NO WE CAN’T…

If Hillary spent as much time doing the job she was elected to do as she does attacking Obama, she might have accomplished something positive as a Senator by now.

Why is the Clinton campaign sounding ever so envious of Obama’s oratorial prowess? As a Clinton admirer, I suggest that she resumes campaigning on issues and stop dissipating energy and resources highlighting the very strengths of her opponent.

Every single post I’ve seen in here appears to be from a bunch of idiots and I mean that in a good way. First, for one candidate to use the catch phrase of another candidate may seem like a small item and it is. However it is these catch phrases that we tend to associate with, use as a brand or hear in sound bites that signal each candidates mantra. Therefore that appears to be more criminal. Secondly, maybe Senator Obama did use a portion of a speech from someone else who is an old friend of his. What harm should that be if the intent was still genuine? Many of us have used inspiring words to form unity among a group of people. So what if he used a portion of someone else’s text. Does it really take away from how he feels about his intentions for this country? Absolutely not. How about we keep our eye on the ball people and pick the candidate we feel can bring about real change and not another four years of the same old thing.

If “bad” press was actually “good” press then Hillary would have been elected already and the Republicans would just go home. Nice try though.

Here’s a thought — no teleprompters- no cards — no pre-written speeches from any speech writers — as soon as any candidiate can just get up and speak using their own words — then we can put to rest who originally said what and when.. The point was made about rhetoric and such — that’s all.. If words don’t mean anything, then I guess Bill never really had “sex” with Monica — at least I always thought it was “sex”.. Hey — did Hillary find her “voice” this week — or did she rip off the new Hampshire voters since she used their voice as her own?

obama will do anything for a little free press. some con men will do anything for a little attention. in the US, one sucker is born every few seconds. obama supporters prove this so its not just a theory; its a fact. romney in 08

The Clinton campaign spin is doing exactly what it wants to do. It’s diverting attention away from the real issues and putting focus on petty, irrelevant nonsense. Come on American people…do we really want 4 years of Hillary Clinton’s pettiness when we have people dying, losing their jobs, and losing their homes? I’ve had enough of the Clintons. They are a detriment to our country.

Why do some brainles fools in here keep saying that he copied an entire speech? He used four sentences from the speech. How is that an entire speech? Besides, he and the Mass. Gov have the same speechwriter for goodness sakes. Is Hillary this desperate?

How come Obama and his camp can say and use any words they want, and Hilliary can’t, is that because his supporters know that he doesn’t have any experience a good speech comes from the heart, Obama only reads what is handed to him, they are not his words, he doesn’t write them, so why vote for some one that preaches change, but doesn’t have a orginal ideal in his head

If Obama steals his words from others than it goes to reason he will need to steal his ideas to lead this great country . again like Bush we will get an empty headed president ( if he was elected)Unless Sinclair bites his head off. Our country is in a fight for its life . We need someone with true leadership and our time of need . It is not Obama . I have lost all respect for him . I will vote for Clinton she is intelligent and in command of the facts.She will lead with knowledge and conviction . A man ( Obama ) that can’t find his own words has no true convictions because he lacks his own thoughts and ideas . I will vote McCain if Obama gets the nomination

So he copied the words of a speech which was copies of speeches? Right. Are you people kidding me? Damn America is really dumb!

That crying line really doesn’t work ,all that does is shows she has a heart,there is nothing wrong with caring,

If you are an Obama supporter listen please, if you really are voting for Obama. Ask your self these questions and I mean really ask yourself these questions.
One, who is Obama really??
two, what programs has he come up with that are explained in depth detail for how he plans to pay for it?
Don’t read the answer on his website, but make Obama tell you this in person.
Most of the programs he says to look at on his website, WAS NOT wriiten or created by him and if you ask these questions at a rally when you attend it, you will get a song and dance answer or Obama will gnore you. That is a TRUE fact. I don’t need a speech I need a person who is gonna fight for me and my causes and will tell me IN PERSON how they plan to pay for it. NOT some website from Obama

Many of U guys are either very dumb, or U are in this to dumb up readers! Three phrases(!) of Obama’s speech and Deval Patrick’s speech are similar. Similar, NOT a copy!!! U seem to forget that Obama was a campaign aid for Deval back in 2004. The press just loves to scrutinize the frontrunner, just to keep things exciting! Think about it, damnit! If this is all they can come up with against Obama, do U gullible female Hill-supporters really think that Hillary’s got a chance?

I encourage everyone to listen, if you have access, to Sen. Clinton’s victory speech after she won in the New Hampshire primary. Her speech mimic Sen Obama’s. She touch on every point that Obama made in his speech. Remember that Obama gave his speech first. Also, the word “CHANGE” was never part of Sen. Clinton’s vocabulary until after Obama won in the Iowa caucus.
If anyone from the press is reading this, he or she should follow up on this.

Why do you think the NH polls were so wrong in the end? We were well aware that Obama and Patrick were using the same canned speeches and in the end, voters went with authenticity over recycled.
The funny thing here is, Obama accuses Clinton of being a recycled candidacy and all the while, he’s recycling speeches he knows have been effective for other candidates.
Wait til Jake Tapper digs a little deeper and realizes how many reused Bill Clinton quips Obama has used and claimed as his own.
We need to focus more on the issues and less on the canned speeches though, otherwise, the Dem. campaign for President is going to be sullied by he said, she said, they said it already!!

Obama is the divider

So he has to use other people’s words and everyone says he’s TERRIBLE without a teleprompter. Obama-the-Magnificent is just another ordinary man who is doing a pretty good con on the people. Why are democrats so easily fooled? Maybe it’s because they base actions on FEELINGS instead of LOGIC.

Ah, Mr. Wolfson, out to do the garbage digging. What a desperate reach. At least his sticking to a substantive debate based on the issues(LOL).
This is Clinton’s Desperation Plan point #2: Absent any licentious scandal:
a) get friends at ABC to interpret anything Obama says as sexist.
b) Make insignificant, non-character based, splitting hair judgements about such dire issues like his speeches, where he eats, or weather he’s ever sported an afro.
C) Try to embed him in pictures with Black folks as often as possible, once again with the help of ABC, to further attempt to keep him nice and black and to scare off White folks. Bill’s more direct approach backfired in South Carolina.
D) Turn him into a wonk, because that whole inspirational thing is really hurting the Clinton Campaign
I can’t wait to see Mr. Wolfson back in the private sector doing PR for Mr. Ruppert Murdoch.

Once more person I agree with you that Obama is the divider, you never know which way this guy is going to vote, will it today be with the republicans, or the democrats or the independts or should i just say that I am PRESENT today, the gus is a flip flopper when it comes to politics, whichever way the wind blows, there goes Obama the follower not the leader

WOW, I am glad people are coming out of thier trans/Zombie like addiction to Obama before its to late. I knew Obama was a Fake from the beginning

Same old Clinton Politics. When will they figure out it is politics stupid? Not just policy.

Oh my God – if they don’t stop this trivial crap we’ll end up with that crazy old coot, McCain.

I’m sure that i’m not the only one witnessing the despiration coming from Hillary camp.Yes, more credit should have been given to Gov. Deval of Mass. since he was the first to use this speech in public but for all I know Mr. Obama could have given it to him since they are friends. This is too minor an issue to waste time.

I was going to vote Obama, But not now…
I hope and pray Hillary or McCain win , Regaurdless of democrat or republican

He’s bad without the teleprompter – you may not have heard that yet, but the word is getting out. And since Obama is not known for ANYTHING other than his so-called great SPEECHES, we now know he uses other people’s words and has to have a teleprompter or he’s terrible.
Aren’t you guys embarrassed that you’re drooling over someone because of speeches and now you know he’s ordinary. Too funny.

Not desperation Johnny. He runs on his words not on what he can do, how he will do it, what he proposes. Those words are not his own.

We have an election year that is starting to resemble 2000 in several disturbing ways. We have a candidate who is appealing to the masses erroneously using the term “electable”. Electable and Likeable are not the same thing. I may enjoy talking to my family doctor more than the chief of surgery at our city hospital. However, were I to have a life threatening condition requiring surgery, I would definitely want the chief of surgery handling my case.
We have a candidate who recycles his speeches, or, more frequently, recycles the speeches of others.
We have a candidate who changes his position depending on his popularity rating.
Perhaps most concerning, we have a candidate who not only lacks experience but has the fatal flaw of not being able to think on his feet. All anyone who doubts this has to do is watch Senator Obama speak with a script. Then, watch him speak in a debate.
In 2000, George W. Bush “won” the election in a finish that showed more corruption than elections in countries run under a dictatorship. At the helm, GW managed to anger leaders in volatile countries, most notably the middle east. There was a sense in the international community that GW wanted America to go to war. Then September 11th, 2001 happened. Foreign relation critics around the globe stated it was only a matter of time.
I remember driving to Ground Zero after being put on ‘stand-down’ at our trauma center. There were no concrete suspects in the hours after the attacks, only multiple leads. In every place we stopped in at while heading to NYC, we asked Americans who they felt was responsible. The media kept playing the story of a suitcase being found at the airport (Boston, I believe). Remember this? The suitcase had the following items: a copy of the Koran, a manual on how to fly, and a few other religious artifacts. Can anyone say “planted evidence”?
We met many Americans with family members in the military. We learned in the hours after the attack, the American military was already heading to Afghanistan. Why was this the case when during these early moments there was no concrete evidence that Afghanistan was involved.
Fast forward to today:
1) Afghanistan is now regarded as the most unstable and dangerous region in the world. Due to the focus on Iraq, there are now more terrorist cells in Afghanistan than pre-9-11.
2) Pakistan recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan has weapons of mass destruction. Pakistan is in chaos.
3) North Korea has weapons of mass destruction with an unpredictable leader at the helm.
4) America’s relationship with China – the largest military in the world – is in peril. Further, from an economics perspective alone, this strained relationship is going to need some serious mending.
5) The American economy is in ruins.
The list goes on.
The concept of “ready on day 1″ is more than a slogan – it is a necessity.
Senator Obama has traveled far less to other regions in the world compared to Senator Clinton. In fact, this lack of worldly travel is but another similarity between GW and BO. It goes without saying that Senator Clinton is far better connected globally. These connections will, with skillful negotiations, become fruitful alliances. In turn, these alliances will assist with:
1) The American Economy
2) Improving the Environment
3) Stabilizing unstable regions.
Senator Obama could say that he has experience in foreign relations. However, given that he all but ignored this portfolio when in the Senate, the only thing he has demonstrated in this regard is utter ineptitude.
Senator Obama could say that he will surround himself with experienced politicians to help with transitioning issues during his first term in office. However, this would completely contradict his promise of a “new kind of government”.
Senator Clinton has the global connections to stand behind her promise to bring ‘troops home safely’. She has the plan, the blue print, to revive the ailing economy. She has the critical skill of being able to speak without a script and to think on her feet. Remember this?: GW contined to read to preschool children for 15 minutes after being told that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
America cannot afford another GW – a BO. Americans deserve far better than a government that stinks!

The deceiver the false Profet, youre mask has fallen, the king is with no clothe. He will catch a cold.

So the Emperor Has No Clothes. We could have told you that a long time ago.

American deserve better not a President who is great in Plagiarism and zero in experience.
What a shame!!!

Please every other minute we hear “change” from Hill. She stole that line from Obama and many other lines as well. I guess it’s OK, for her, but no him. Again, her double standard stinks. By the way, we all remember that great line from JFK, “ask not what your country can do for you”.….. JFK stole that line from a school slogan he noticed while visiting. Go figure.
Just goes to show how desperate she really is. Come on Wisconsin; let’s show her and her negative campaign the door.

Obama shrinks under any criticism at all; he’s a like a prissy child who doesn’t know how to react. Hillary Clinton mentioned the fact that he never takes responsibility too; it is so true. This man creeps me out. There is a huge difference from Hillary saying “Yes we will” in response to his “yes we can” and him taking an entire speech. His whole candidacy operates on talk because he has no substance, but now we find out that his speeches aren’t even his own. What else does he had left? Nothing.
I’m sure that Obama was so confident in the fact that the media questions him on nothing…he was confident they wouldn’t call him out on this. I’m glad they did. This is going to be like a pick mark in the iceberg which forms the crack.
Now that Obama is coming into the states that aren’t heavily black (so he can’t get those free votes based on his race, he HAS to turn to issues. When he does, he reads from a card and stumbles and pauses. He’s in unfamiliar territory. He makes up his platform as he goes and needs cards to recite it back. Barak Hussein Obama disgusts me.

I would rather be 100 years in Iraq the 4 years with Obama the deciever.

Simon Carter, you are watching a great artist at work with speeches not the real truth. Obama may talk a good talk but he can’t do the walk, which means what he say is really only used for what he says, it’s a speech to make you feel good about yourself and that’s it!!!!! There is no real detailed programs that should be brought out in the open, We the people stand for asking these questions from our politicians, how are you gonna help me in detail and how are you gonna pay for these programs in detail, Obama can’t personally answer these question, because he doesn’t really know the programs, somebody else wrote them and he’s just trying to repeat what he’s told to do, to make it sound good.

It wasn’t a catch phrase idiots! It was an entire speech!

Read Lincoln’s speeches with his use of biblical phrases. The declaration of independence borrowed in part from previous writings. The Clintons are incredibly desparate and increasingly repugnant and I voted for Bill twice. The man squandered his presidency. Hillary is running on non-existant experience. I recall the election of 1960 and how inspiring JFK could be. And Roosevelt. And Lincoln. And Reagan. Words do matter. They inspire. They motivate. They bring people together for a common cause. Lets move on.

This is laughable. The Clintons are behaving as if a Presidential campaign is a College course where someone cannot use another person’s words without giving credit. The last time i checked, when i was in college, i didn’t have Speech writers writing my speeches or paper. If Speech writers are allowed, then the rules must be different. This is seriously a distraction. When did we become Republicans with thsi dirty, gutter politics? I was leaning towards Clinton for this Tuesday, but now, i’m not so sure anymore. If she is down in the polls to Mccain, is this what we will see? This is just a turn-off. I might just stay home tomorrow because i cannot see my self voting for Obama either.

Criminal offenses are not “minor” or “petty” issues.

Oh my this is terrible timing, isn’t it? And everyone floundering trying to make this reasonable and hurl crud at Clinton — stop being so petty. Leveraging large portions of a speech WORD FOR WORD is much different than drawing a contrast between two candidates by slightly altering the slogan, e.g. the difference betwee “Yes, we can” and “Yes, we will” is a play on words designed to draw a contrast between words of promise, and words of action. And it is effective, and clever. Also, McCain also said “I’m fired up and ready to go” recently so I guess we better through him into the school yard politics.
I love the fact that even our “having a complete love affair with Obama” news coverage in Seattle covered this story and openly critiqued Obama for leveraging his speech. It is about time we saw some balance in the scrutiny!

BUSTED!!

Trying to align oneself with past President’s is one thing, plagerism is another. Oprahma’s ‘holier-than-thou’ attitude makes me want to hurl. I wouldn’t vote for this guy if were the only candidate running or if he was green with purple polka-dots. His feeble attempt to downplay this latest screw up by saying “he should have given more credit” is laughable and illustrative of his ‘spin doctor’s’ hard at work. There was no ‘writer’s strike’ in his campaign; Oprahma is given much too much credit for the flowery rhetoric that some believe will magically translate into a viable Presidency. Um, that would be a no go.

You, Obama supporters have got to realize these comments ARE NOT SLANDER AND THEY ARE NOT NEGATIVE, these are the questions you people should have been asking all along before you picked Obama as your candidiate, All of the rest of us who didn’t vote for Obama already knew the answers why didn’t you ask them yourself. Please ask your politican before you vote and WISCONSIN if you are reading these emails, please ask before you vote for somebody who just talk about a speech and doesn’t have the answers.

Mark: Where are you going to move to we only have three candidates and soon it will be down to two then one. If you don’t like what you see don’t vote. Its very simplified. One vote will not make a difference in the count.I am voting for Hillary. Obama only wants to be president to make history. That’s what it is all about. He is not JFK, RFK or MLK but he sure would like to be.

“S”:
1) It wasn’t a “large portion” of the speech.
2) Obama and Patrick have the same speech writers
3) Patrick already came out and said it was no problem and that the two share ideas
Get a grip, Hillary supporters and Obama-haters. If this is the best thing you’ve got, he’s got this election in the bag

who really lost 2000, you are getting your info from vanity fair? Enough said.

Voting is one of the things us poor uneducated single women can do, it is like a night out on the town, free,

Day-Owl: Hillary won Nevada even with the big endorsement from the union. Hillary was right and the Hispanics stuck it to Obama. Good news. So did California and New Mexico. I believe she will win in those three big states plus maybe Hawaii. But Wisconsin could go Obama’s way because of all the college’s there and those student’s don’t know the time of day. Obama could tell them the sky is pink and they would believe him. That’s how dumb they are today.

Hey Larry sorry to hear you are a republican, but that’s really okay. Hillary wouldn’t mind you crossing the fence to help her out and you are right Obama is a liberal which ever way the wind blows he will follow

Obama is holding a rally in Youngstown Ohio. I wonder who’s speech he is giving.

For those who are now having buyers remorse for voting for this fraud, I can’t help but say “Told Ya”.
I’d much rather have an old man as president than an experienced slick talking con man.
Hoefully he will be exposed in Ohio before March 4th.

Proof that neither democrat is fit to be President

samyr, your comment. I wish to comment on. I don’t care who outed who, as I have stated before Obama should have been investigated by the PEOPLE and the news media WAYYYYYYYYYYY before this came out. Finally the true details of this candidate Obama are starting to surface and maybe if you send an email to CNN< FOX< MSNBC and ask them to investigate Obama you will get accurate answers, instead of a speech ,regaurdless who wrote it and who said it first

RKSAGE–What answers does Hillary possess? By all accounts their policies are nearly the same except for fractional differences in healthcare. Obama’s economic policies even have the upper hand as far as most experts are concerned. But these are surely plans to deviate from once legislation is bounced of lawyers, Cabinet members, sub-committees, committees and eventually both houses of Congress.
So where are the solutions? In short, what has Hillary accomplished besides renaming post offices and a court house, passing a resolution honoring Alexander Hamilton and another celebrating the win of a Syracuse University lacrosse team, and finally founding a national park in Puerto Rico. Are these the solutions you seek? You need to do your own research and discover that Hillary Clinton is, all hat and no cattle-trading–anymore

We should have a parlamentary system and let the smart people decide who is Prime Minister. Instead of all this inspiaring crap.

Freethinker, Obama’s whole campaign revolves around his speeches. His speeches do not provide any specifics, only rhetoric. If he told the audience before he spoke that he was going to borrow lines, I don’t think people would listen. They can just look up that speech or watch that speech. It is a big deal because this is the very core of his campaign. The question that comes out of this is that perhaps he is not much different than anyone else?

“I wish I had a brain” eerily Obama looks like a scarecrow

I really don’t understand the logic of backing somebody who can’t win – is it greed (because of the promise of entitlements) or stupidity?

This is the dumbest controversy I have ever read.

Some facts -
Obama uncle in Kenya, Muslim opposition leader Raila Odinga.
Odinga gang is busy in ethnic cleansing in Kenya.
Here Obama is busy in copying speeches and increasing decibels and fools are following as pied piper.
When he will lose election he will calim its all race. And another loser Teddy will come and endrose him.
He is a loser.
Media should investigate him.

We will not do ethnic cleansing .I promise Obama told me .Only Mexicans for not voteing for him, unless they give us Texas.

Mannewell, sorry to hear you are voting for OBama, but I will tell you this, Hillary economic plan was out there way before Obama and her plan is much better than Obama. I tell you what I sent this email into the news media why don’t all of you do the same. Obama who is he really?
What are his programs?
How does he plan to pay for them and finally ask them at CNN to ask the followoing question from BOTH candidates about foreign trade and the foreign policy we have now. How do you plan to bring jobs back to the US and how are you going to make foreign trade more efficient for the american people,nobody has really touched this issue. Send this email in and we will see which candidate answer this at the debate this thursday on CNN.

Obama has lower the standard on who our next President should be…NOW PLAGIARISM IS GOOD..Obama is an empty suit. WHAT CHANGE? WHEN YOU CAN’T EVEN COME UP WITH YOUR OWN RETHORIC.

The country has always been divided and it always will. Remember the Civil war. Was HRC responsible? Nothing will ever unite this country , those are facts . But we are doing O.K.

Brain I bet your parents are really proud of you, If Obama brings out this kind of disrespect from our own, think of what it will do around the world, so far he has said he is not interested in poor uneducated women, old people, and mexicans, cause they don’t understand the issues, so now he is a mind reader to,

Don’t anyone ever again quote a few short inspiring sentences spoken by great heroes. That’s just disgusting, and evil. And Aaron Copeland was guilty of plagerism in his “Lincoln Portrait,’ too.

The difference between JFK and Obama. Is that JFK usually started with “In the great words of ___________.” Then he proceeded using someone else’s words to help make his point. Usually the point being made was one based on philosophy. The point the Ill. Senator is trying to make is based on a concocted situation where he gets to play the role of victim. Not inspiring…..

What he supposedly “plagarised” was a rebute the accusations the Clinton’s saying that rhetoric was not important. Duval knew how to counter that and obviously Obama took the same approach. The Clinton’s are such hypocrites…if words don’t matter why are you leveling these ridiculous charges against Obama? Same politicians coming up with the same old attacks. Pathetic.

Typical Clintonites to play dirty politics and make something out of nothing. Obama and Patrick are friends, they have the same philosophies, they use each other’s slogans. To suggest that Obama makes a habit of plagiarizing all his works is misleading and typical of Hilary Clinton politics. I guess she took a page out of Republican’s swift boat tactics to distract from the real issue. Typical.

Stealing speaches? Really? Wow. This is the same old politics republicans have used on Bill. Now Hillary and Bill are using these dirty tactics on Obama. Shameful.

Obama states that words do count he used I have a dream,we have nothing to fear but fear itself.They are fine words but they didn’t repeat them over and over and over. can anyone imagine if King used those words in every speech what little impact they’d of had.

Obama states that words do count he used I have a dream,we have nothing to fear but fear itself.They are fine words but they didn’t repeat them over and over and over. can anyone imagine if King used those words in every speech what little impact they’d of had.

WELL WHAT DOES IT TAKE OBAMAMANIACS TO SEE THAT THIS GUY IS A SALESMAN RUNNING ON EMPTY FAITH AND PROMISES. HE IS PREACHING AND GIVING NO SPECIFICS. SO I ASK YOU ONE QUESTION WOULD YOU HAVE OBAMA WORK ON YOUR DAUGHTERS HEART OR HILLARY. A SPEECH OF FANCY WORDS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE ELSE OR, A PERSON WITH A SPECIFIC PLAN? QUESTION JUST ASK THE QUESTION!

Plagiarist Senator Barack Hussein Obama.
Great!!! Now American deserve this crap.

Hillary supporters are over-confident smack talkers who think they’ve got Obama voters in the bag because of Iraq.
Unfortuately for them, they’re not as smart as they think they are – a good portion of Obama’s base are the right-leaning Demcrats and Independent swing voters who are looking at Hillary’s base and saying heck no I’m not paying for all the entitlements she’s promised this pack of jerks.
A vote for Hillary in the primaries is a vote for McCain . . . what do I care if the entitlements go to Iraq rather than the creeps who have been calling me and other Obama supporters stupid and naive . . .

Latinos/Hispanics will never vote for Obama. O WHO? Just wait he will be trashed in TEXAS. NO EXPERIENCE MEANS HE HAS TO PLAGIARIZED WITH OWN RHETORIC

It seems to me that Jake wrote the article about borrowed words and speeches and the Clintons had nothing to do with it. But let’s look at the facts. What did Mr. Obama do for the citizens of Illinois during his 8 years as senator? We still don’t have usury laws, Check & Go, Payday Loans and such are still sucking the blood of the poor and unemployed who cannot make ends meet. And what about controlling banks and other outfits in the State of Illinois providing mortgages at 5 1/2% and then raising them to 11% and the banks throwing people out into the street when they could no longer pay? What has he done TO HELP ILLINOIS’ CITIZENS? And what has he done for Illinois since his election to the U.S. Senate? Write books about himself? In 2006 he was appointed Head of the Sub-Committe on Europe (Foreign Relations). What has he done about it? He has not been to Europe to meet heads of state once. And he wants to represent this country? And then we have the statements on the website of the church he (and Oprah)attend: “We are an African people, and remain TRUE to our NATIVE LAND, the mother Continent, the cradle of civilization… We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.” (And he not even black – he is bi-ratial). The Church states on the front page that it is committed to a 10-point Vision. Point 4 of 10: A congregation with a NON-NEGOTIABLE COMMITMENT TO AFRICA. Point 8: Commitment to LIBERATION (from what or whom?). Point 9: Commitment to RESTORATION (of what?). Not a word about AMERICA. As for slavery, it would appear that if the black brethren in Africa would not have rounded up their own brethren and sold them into slavery, there would have been no slavery. So who is more guilty? The seller or the buyer? That, of course, does not excuse the buyer from the way they treated those they bought.

if thats all hillary has to offer…we dont need it!!! noone wants to hear her depressing lies and shameful regrets… the government doesnt need any more clintons..were done!!!
..go obama…

When has Hillary taken responsibility for the Iraq War vote? The Global Poverty Act 2007 is real. Ethics reform is real. Expanding healthcare in Illinois is real. His legislation on Hurricane Katrina is real. His nuclear proliferation co-sponsorship is real. All of you are being played by the biggest political ploy of the most calculating Democrats to serve in the White House. Hillary has so much experience but was only an elected official for 7 years now. Obama 11. The information age played more of a role in the economy and if you research, you’ll learn that the budget surplus came largely due to reductions from the military and actual tax increases on the middle class. Most of the jobs in the 90′s were spurred on by the IT industry (which I’m a part of) which offered higher paying jobs at the time but understaffed due to demand. Read and investigate the issues and measure up their real legislative experience. Read about what the Global Poverty Act accomplishes. Understand the flexibility allowed in SCHIP allowed for severe regulation at the state level which still left too many kids out. We’re still talking about “I did not have ___ relations with that woman” and “depends on what the definition of is is”. That’s how we ended up with George Bush and that’s how we will end up with Jeb Bush if they return to the White House, IMO. Please don’t fall for this. Everybody, including Hillary has speech writers.” It’s too daunting a task to campaign everyday and night and deliver original campaign speeches. All speeches are shaped and cultivated behind the candidates theme or message. And all speeches are historically based on campaign strategies from as far back as the country’s founding. I can’t believe so many people did not know this. George Bush has a speech writer he just can’t deliver speeches. The “I Have a Dream” speech was not first delivered on the Washington Mall. JFK, RFK, Bill Clinton all had speech writers . Their job was to learn it and deliver it effectively with passion.

Walter,
Who knwo what Obama will do in white house? He is copying JFK, we all know he was sleeping around.
I know Whoopi will say no to him.
Today he is Plagiarist, tommorow who knows may be in Sunset Blvd.

we all use quotes other people use, but we normally always say , as so and so said, we don’t just take their words as our own, that is lieing. and we as every day folks are not running for the office of president or any of office, we wouldn’t allow that from our state leaders ,why would we allow it from our national leader

Clinton rips off Obama’s words…and fails to convince ANYONE she is a change agent. Obama and Patrick are friends, share tips and one or two key phrases.
Which is a problem? Sharing with a friend or stealing from someone who is kicking your ***?
Clinton is pathetic. She should bury her head in shame and crawl back into the hole she and her husband crawled out of.
We want change…change from the politics of slash and burn. Change from the Clintons’ doing and saying anything they think is necessary to grab and hold on to power for themselves.

A vote for Hillary is a vote for McCain . . . banning abortion, banning gay marriage, deporting illegals, lost jobs to China and Mexico, loss of health insurance coverage to all but the high-income earners, and continued wars throughout the middle-east . . .
Hillary supporters care only about themselves – time for me to look out for me . . . none of those plaforms affect me. You say the system can’t be reformed, the I say go big-business. Every person for themselves . . .

Oh please. Every President since George Washington has borrowed others words. John Kennedy did, Bobby Kennedy did, Ronarld Reagan did. Now the old bag is trying to shame Obama for using someone else’s speech. She is absolutely one pathetic candidate. As well, all of you voting for her are pathetic as well. Pull the plug on the old battleaxe and vote overwhelmingly for Obama. I am.

Clinton stole “fired up” and “ready to go” from him??? HA HA!! Now that’s a good one .. I guess every head football coach in America owes him an apology then too!?!?! That’s some good stuff .. watch him crumble!

“Senator Clinton has used mine as well,” Obama said, citing “fired up and ready to go,” as examples.
OH PLEASE, THIS IS THE MOST REVEALING THING THAT OBAMA HAS SAID, AS WELL AS THE MOST RIDICULOUS. KINDERGARTENERS SAY FIRED UP AND READY TO GO!
AND HE WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT. NOT!!!

I see he is just the same old politician as the rest. He is starting to back peddle on campaign financing and now he is trying to spin a speech that was copied. I want someone I can believe in but am afraid he is not what he claims to be. Sad.

The phrase “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” was said by F.D.Roosevelt and if memory serves me, Winston Churchill during WW II.

It always make me laugh when someone says go to Obama or Hilliary websites and read what they say,really, well if I was running for president and I wanted people to vote for me what would I put on my web site,things that make me look good, things I know the people want to hear,if you want the truth stay away from their websites, dig deeper,the truth is out there,

Forget the spin!!..answer this Hillary Supporters!
Let’s take a closer look at who’s really qualified and or who’s really working for the good of all of us in the Senate. Obama or Clinton.
Records of these two candidates should be scrutinized in order to make an informed decision.
Senator Clinton, who has served only one full term – 6yrs. – and another year campaigning, has managed to author and pass into law – 20 – twenty pieces of legislation in her first six years.
These bills can be found on the website of the Library of Congress http://www.thomas.loc.gov, but to save you trouble, I’ll post them here for you.
1. Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site.
2. Support the goals and ideals of Better Hearing and Speech Month.
3. Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
4. Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall.
5. Name courthouse after James L. Watson.
6. Name post office after Jonn A. O’Shea.
7. Designate Aug. 7, 2003, as National Purple Heart Recognition Day.
8. Support the goals and ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day.
9. Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton on the bicentennial of his death.
10. Congratulate the Syracuse Univ. Orange Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.
11. Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.
12. Establish the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemorative Program.
13. Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda.
14. Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the nation and express condolences on her death.
15. Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford, firefighters who lost their lives on duty. Only five of Clinton’s bills are, more substantive. 16. Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11.
17. Pay for city projects in response to 9/11 18. Assist landmine victims in other countries.
19. Assist family caregivers in accessing affordable respite care.
20. Designate part of the National Forest System in Puerto Rico as protected in the wilderness preservation system.
There you have it, the fact’s straight from the Senate Record.
Now, I would post those of Obama’s, but the list is too substantive, so I’ll mainly categorize.
During the first – 8 – eight years of his elected service he sponsored over 820 bills. He introduced
233 regarding healthcare reform,
125 on poverty and public assistance,
112 crime fighting bills,
97 economic bills,
60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills,
21 ethics reform bills,
15 gun control,
6 veterans affairs and many others.
His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These inculded **the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 – became law, **The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, – became law, **The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate, **The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, – became law, **The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, In committee, and many more.
In all, since entering the U.S. Senate, Senator Obama has written 890 bills and co-sponsored another 1096.
An impressive record, for someone who supposedly has no record according to some who would prefer that this comparison not be made public.
He’s not just a talker.
He’s a doer.

His patronizing is catching up with him. His imitation of MLK, Robert Kennedy, etc… is playing on the real emotions and hopes of those that revere these great leaders. Any candidate that plays the American people should be ashamed of themselves.

Today Hillary released her “Blueprint for the Economy”. Isn’t it interesting that Obama’s document on the issues is called “Blueprint for Change”. The woman is unethical, dishonest, and vindictive.

only HILLARY fans are taking this seriously. Let it go, y’all. She is creepy and is not a good rep for our party.
Watch your back Obama — The Clintons make people they don’t like, *disappear*
-Texas Democrat

Hey unless each candidate is writing their own speaches and I highly doubt that are they both not using someone elses words?

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is exceedingly desperate. They have no chance of winning enough delegates to take the nomination and now they’re resorting to the nuclear option. The country is not going to vote another Clinton into the White House. We’ve had 4 years of Bush #1, 8 years of Bill Clinton, and now 8 years of Bush #2. If the country elects Hillary Clinton, the Bush & Clinton families will have ruled the nation for 24-28 years. That concept is ridiculous. We are a nation of democracy, not a nation of ruling families!

Good for you Obama supporters. Obama cant write his own speech. How can u expect him to run the white huose. He is not honest.

Ok. I’m sorry. I love Obama again. You have me convinced to vote for him again. My bad. Thanks for setting me straight with your riviting comments. I see the light. Obama rocks. We are the champions of change. Change- we can believe in. Woooo Hooo…. go obama in 08. or not

I love these holier-than-thou republican idiots. Does “Larry Craig” and “Mark Foley” tell you anything about the GOP.
Obama 2008!!!

He didn’t copy the entire speech. Plus, who cares? Many of our great leaders “stole” other peoples words (aka speech writers). Our government is was “stolen” from the greeks and romans…i don’t see anyone of you complaining about that. There’s bigger issues at hand in this election. This isn’t Star Magazine, get over this petty gossip and most importantly get over yourselves.

This is so very silly. The Clintoon campaign is grasping at straws. If I could have a dime for every time I have heard Hillariouly use the words of others I would be a rich man. Nice try…but the good ship Clintoon has hit a berg and is going down.

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times, HILLARY CLINTON WILL DO AND SAY ANYTHING HOWEVER LUDICRIOUS TO WIN…
She is a walking flesh of shame.

We want LEADER not PLAGIARDER
We deserve better, anyone else “NOT OBAMA”
We want HERO not ZERO
We are proud people, will not elect shameless thief.

this show hillary has no substance, she has changed her self from the experience candidate to the change candidate what a loser. Now she has nothing better to argue about but words
loser

For God’s sake…its a speech not a published work. Go away Hilly.

I am so disgusted by the Clinton campaign. Here they are faulting Obama for using a few phrases from an ally in a speech and calling his words into question. What about Hillary, she stole his theme of Change. The Clintons sicken me with their lies and unseemly tactics. The narrow demographic that loves Hillary shouldn’t be surprised that most americans find their tactics disgusting and unethical. If she ends up getting the nomination, I will likely register as a republican and I will greatly enjoy seeing the Clinton’s shady dealings outed in the general campaign and for the public to see what degenerates they really are

Obama also has lifted Hillary’s economic plan and called it his own. He has also taken other things from Hillary to fill in his lack of “specifics” on issues. Now I find out that even his “inspiring” speeches, for which he’s well-known, steal sections from other people’s speeches. Wow!
Also, Hillary did not take “Yes We Can” from Obama. The motto dates back to various Latino movements (Spanish translation of “Si se puede”)and the Clintons were using it before him.

Some valid advice to Obama….
You screwed up. You used other
people’s phases without giving
them credit. And you were found
out. Now what do you do?
First, you do not point the
finger at someone else and say
they did it too. Terrible tactic.
You says OOPs..sorry I screwed up
apologize to the individual(s)
involved and make same public.
Then go on about your business.
Do it this way and that will
be the end of it. Rationalize it,
say others do it, fudge it and I
gurantee that the issue will
linger on and smell like a dead
fish as time goes on.

Let’s think about this deeper, objectively. The lesson to learn here is that, with Obama, you’ll be getting a President who will admit when he makes mistakes. If this same happened to Clinton or Bush, can you imagine them saying they made a mistake?! I doubt Clinton will even own up to stealing Obama’s lines over the past few weeks, which she has done. The point Obama was making about words mattering a great deal (what would we do if we couldn’t speak?) was a great one. Should he have said where he was getting those few specific lines from? Yes. But quoting someone does not in any way make a person un-authentic. Am I less authentic if I cite Shakespeare or Toni Morrison? No–it shows where my vision and authenticity are grounded.

To quote the famous Oprah Winfrey: “I feel insulted but more importantly I feel he betrayed the listeners”. Yes, you said it girl!

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is exceedingly desperate. They have no chance of winning enough delegates to take the nomination and now they’re resorting to the nuclear option. The country is not going to vote another Clinton into the White House. We’ve had 4 years of Bush #1, 8 years of Bill Clinton, and now 8 years of Bush #2. If the country elects Hillary Clinton, the Bush & Clinton families will have ruled the nation for 24-28 years. That concept is ridiculous. We are a nation of democracy, not a nation of ruling families!

This is only a small part of what Obama has taken. His whole campaign has many reflections of Bill Clinton’s and The Man From Hope. Bill Clinton ran on the Hope and Yes, We Can idea years ago. Change might be good, but if you have to steal most of your words and ideas how far can you go?

Obama will tell it like it is, and this will be lost in a footnote of his campaign to the White House. Clinton is defiantly not getting the support from Edwards after a stunt like this. I wonder if they know something that we don’t?

Like I’ve always said “four score and seven years ago ……………..

Desperate attacks by an increasingly desperate campaign.
At least that’s one response. I suppose the other, the one that Clinton prefer I have, is: “oh my gosh, I never knew candidates had help writing their speeches!”
Lol. I’m sure this one will get Clinton supporters fired up, but its about as meaningful as the attacks on his fear of debating for a 21st time or his kindergarten record.

Will Oprah be making a “statement” on this plagiarism or does she discriminate when someone she supports betrays her? I’ll be waiting and watching!

It is so interesting to see that NOW the Obama cult wants to talk about the issues. What a difference a day makes!

Look. These words weren’t copy righted. No one was infringed upon and how many other things said by these candidates are either direct quotes of other people or warmed over campaign promises and oratory from 43 other presidential election cycles and presidential hopefuls? We’ve all heard it all before in one way, shape or form. So what’s the big deal??

Obama is no different than Hillary or McCain. I really don’t understand what all the hoopla is all about regarding Obama. He took money from nuclear companies and revised his senate bill from mandatory reporting of nuclear leaks to voluntary reporting of nuclear leaks. Now, he copies speech from some one else. What is the change we are to believe in when he is elected?
It is not about for or against Obama, but it is about the need to really look at his past records. Many leaders in the past have swept its people to rousing emotion and frenzy and did the inspiring words ever mirror the reality?
Whenever there is a politician that is achieving those conditions we must examine in details before we get buyer’s remorse.
How many people know about how Obama took money from nuclear companies and diluted the bill so that it becomes teethless and was never even passed as legislation.
It never hurts to scrutinize then make your decision.

So where’s the “New Ideas” that the Obama cult are bragging around?
What’s next that we’ll hear from Obama? Inspirational messages from Hallmark cards???
Ha Ha Ha

A vote for partisanship and Hillary is a vote to widen the divide between the haves and have-nots.
Hillary supporters are so cocky and driven by greed they think they’ve got their entitlements in the bag – not Obama supporters’ problem when you’re left to rot by the Republicans in 08 . . .

“Who’s Hussein? Saddam is dead.”
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.

“Obama is starting to sound like a little boy in kindergarten who is crying because Hillary took his milk. There is no copyright on “catch” phrases. He plagiarized an entire speech, but he turns on Hillary for using his catch phrases. How juvenile. This man is not Presidential material.”
This is so correct! I agree.

Jish there you have it, Hillary is a flipflopper and obama just makes wrong choices. What else needs to be said

Yawn.

Same goes for Chris – why would you vote for Hillary knowing it’s essentially a vote for McCain . . . what if he’s pressured to support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage?

I can’t believe this is your leading story–and without a clearer reference to the many examples where Clinton borrowed from Obama. Every other news organization is reporting this in a much more balanced way. Oh, wait, except for Drudge.
Great job, ABC.

kinase11 – I totally agree . . . the far-left is just as commando as the far-right. Arrogant, demanding, over-confident, unwilling to compromise. They fancy themselves to be some sort of ‘victims’ but the truth is they get what they deserve . . .

The video speaks for itself. Doesn’t make a difference how the media is portraying it.

ROFL at the people suggesting that we should vote for stay in Iraq for the next 100 years McCain who also sang bomb, bomb Iran. No McCain is totally unfit to be president. I would vote Hillary Clinton over McCain any day of the week. Hillary has at least said she would stand up to big oil. Don’t recall hearing a word out of McCain on this subject. A vote for McCain is basically a vote for a 3rd Bush term.

Good Grief – the president IS a leadership position, we will be pleased to have a president who has the great gift to uplift, inspire and motivate people. All this yammering about the difference between words and actions implies Hillary thinks a president does the work directly and falls to consider all those people who must achieve their ends by motivating, leading, inspiring others to do the nitty gritty details.
I am tired of dumbed down politicing!

You guys are grasping at straws with this. He said a couple of words that his friend and Senior Adviser told him to use and you guys are jumping all over it like its a big deal.
You all sound like a bunch of 8 year olds on here. How said and pathetic these Clinton supporters have become.
Your true colors will shine through in the end. The hate is piercing right now…it will explode sooner or later.

zapper – spoken like a true Hillary supporter. No awareness of anybody else but you . . . I can just hear you decrying how it’s all the ‘stupid’ far-right’s fault when Hillary gets trounced by McCain in 08 when in reality it’s all about you . . .
I refuse to feel guilty about Hillary supporters getting treated like dirt the next 8 years if they refuse to take responsibility for their actions and think of anybody but themselves.
If it’s a choice between doling out entitlements to the Iraqis or to Hillary supporters, I see Iraqis as the true victims of their circumstances. And apparently the majority of the country when given the choice between Hilary and McCain feels the same way.

Why is this called blown out of proportion by obama supporters and an important issue to clintonites? Do clintonites value honesty more than obamaites? What ever happened to honesty, integrity and leadership?

This man whines too much! I’m so tired of hearing about him and his stolen or borrowed words. What a loser. If he wrote two books, why can’t he write his own fresh one-liners? I guess it’s just easier not to. Sad.

I recall from what I have read that MLK periodically dealt with these kinds of accusations. Since Obama was borrowing from his ally, Gov. Deval Patrick, I doubt there was any real mal-intent. To me, this whole issue looks pretty forgiveable. Let’s not forget that political speeches are a lot different than books or term papers. Next issue please…

This race is so far along, and both candidates are so well-defined (unlike Biden in ’88) that this whole controversy will only serve to cause Obama and Clinton supporters to dig in behind their own candidates.
Obama was given “permission” to use the lines by a friend and supporter in Deval Patrick. This gives Obama supporters what they need to stand by their man, but won’t be enough to assuage Clinton supporters who will just tack this on as another reason to justify their support for Clinton.
This may have the effect of causing some very late-deciders to go to Clinton, but looking at exit polls, she’s already been doing fairly well among those who decide in the booth. This story will soon be over-shadowed by the results of tomorrow’s primary.

I smell a republican win coming in 08.

A political speech is a representation of your philosophy and your intentions as a leader. Yes, quite different from a term paper.

Dems snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. One more time.

Give me a freakin break! Hillary is grasping at straws. If she would get a personality and learn to as least appear genuine then perhaps more people would listen to her rhetoric. If you would refer back to Good Ole Hillary’s book: It Takes A Whole Village…. you will see that this is not a new idea or new words that she came up with and ultimately benefitted financially from. This was derived from an African Proverb that I understand that she did not even acknowledge. If Obama’s words are merely words then why would she be concerned about him speaking. Because she knows that he is charismatic and much more genuine than she’ll ever be. Why is it that no one is buying her crap, at least most intelligent folk aren’t? Not all Black Arkansans back the Clintons, especially Hillary. She is an opportunist and very cunning, that is why Bill sought love in many other places. I have never believed that she would go to the whitehouse and represent women in a positive manner. She actually represent more male egocentric characteristics. She is power hungry and as any ruthless opportunist, she will do whatever it takes to get what she wants. If you think Slick Willy was in the deceptive practices while they were in the Whitehouse all by himself, think again, she is the mastermind. L

That is very unoriginal coming from presidential candidate Obama. Is that how you expect to solve the problems this country face? Not only is he inexperience but arrogant too for when he said to reporters that he gives good speeches. Then he starts acting like a kid that got caught with the hand in the cookie jar, blaming his opponent for using other lines before. We call that projection. Let’s grow up and take responsibility for our actions. Let’s vote for someone responsible and reliable with experience that will steer this country the better times.

The rookie car salesman has been getting a free ride with the BIG MEDIA.
This salesman is a big PHONY
..plagiarism
..REZKO connection
..present votes for than a hundred times
..health care does not cover 15 million
..unpaid parking ticket for 17 years
..inexperience
PLEASE WAKE UP DEMOCRATS!!!!

Obama doesn’t get it. Yes…words do matter, but it matters more whether they are your own or not. Why should we believe anything that comes out of his mouth. Obviously, it does not represent his true intentions because they are someone else’s thoughts and ideas. What a cheat! He will do and say anything to get elected.

How old are BO supporters and what is his campaign trying to cover up?
Phrases Hill stole
yes, we will;
fired up and ready to go;
turn the page
huh? These have been around for 30-40 and most likely more years … these are indeed mundane common expressions
hell I know I have said I am all fired up and ready to go about a dozen times in my life before I heard BO use it -
Yes – we will – Is that not a Beattles song?
What BO did Sat night was brilliant – he used famous quotes from famous people of major import that showed the power of smart words by smart people – it was insanely smart of him
Shame it was not his idea and that he and his campaign consultants lifted it nearly verbatim from another campaigner and did not give credit — all he needed to do is start with – as others have said – he could point back to that as credit given – but at the time have it mean Kennedy and Churchill etc
But he did not – cause – well cause he by now thinks he can do as he wishes and not be called on it -
But now his Teflon shield is torn – and his reneges on what money to use in GC are visible and McCain drew first blood cutting his skin – now his wife’s commnets that for the FIRST time she is proud of this country are being examind (she is not like many of his followers only a child of bush and clinton days) -
And while we are at it – I have no problem with Barack or Hussein – but do have a problem with it not being his born names
Like Geraldo Rivera – who others knew at Columbia School of Journalism as Jerry Rivers when it was cool to be Jewish – before he wanted to land a job as a Hispanic newsman and became Geraldo Rivera (yes he is born of to Hispanic and Jewish parents) — So Barrack is Barry (last name I would misspell) when it suits to be white and he is Barrack Obama when it suits to be black
Imagine if indeed he were Barry Obims a white candidate — what would be his appeal once we knew his words were not his own and his promises not always important enough to keep

Obama was happy to plagiarize till he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
I say the man is a fraud – an empty suit pre-packaged by David Axelrod (i.e. the new Karl Rove)
I say lets go look in to his book or (books as Obama says) and see where he got the stuff in it. It will be worth while to do so

Hillary turning a few word phrases of Obama’s is hardly comparable to his excerpting large portions of, and nearly verbatim, another’s speech without attribution is plagiarism. Obama showed his seething anger at the recent WI Democratic Party event. There’s nothing original about him and it’s about time that his dirty little secrets are finally being exposed. The sad thing is is that his rabid supporters will excuse him for his plagiarizing, since they haven’t a clue about the seriousness of such a matter.

Take Obama’s words out and the Emperor is naked. Plagiarism is serious because it involves a) integrity b) original thinking c) capacity and d) judgment. All qualities required for a president. The democratic campaign is stressful and it is supposed to be to eliminate the weak candidates. This is as close to a Howard Dean’s scream as we are going to get. In sum, Obama cracked under pressure. Republicans will explore his weakness to the full extent. Again, his lack of experience will require a strong VP, which will eat any of his agenda.

i think this is not at all a big deal. everyone is just on obama’s case because he’s black. if he is good friends with patrick, and patrick isn’t concerend, neither should anyone else. he doesn’t care, so go on with ur lives people. hillary is losing big time in this race and she can’t take it. simple as that….

Blah, blah, blah. This is just further evidence that there is so little negative to be found about this man that this is the lengths the opposition will go to in order to get a negative story run. Are you telling me that HRC writes every word of her own speeches? Does she give credit for the lines she does not write. He’d friends with the guy and he said, use that thing I said that time, its applicable. HRC wishes she had friends like that. Shame on ABC and every other news outlet that gives any legitimacy to the story.

I heard that speech where Obama was accused of stealing someone else’s words. Obama was illustrating a point that words are not just words. Hillary and her gang steal words all of the time, and not for illustrative purposes, she simply has no originality.

The big bad Clintons are picking on poor little Barack and its just not fair and now he has a boo boo.
He’s such a nice boy maybe he could be President one day when he is old enough to play in the big kids playground.

Since the workds of Gov. Deval Patrick were so powerful and worht repeating, and everyone is offended, let’s correct the situation and I say vote for Gov. Deval Patrick..I’ve watched him for a while…Chicago to Mass…He would be great at President.

WISCONSIN, WAKE UP…will you vote for a liar? empty suit, no new ideas man..CHANGE FOR THE SAKE OF CHANGE..WHAT CHANGE? You know that Obama has no plans on HOW TO MAKE CHANGE..HE IS A FAKE.

These are just word, whether its stolen from or not.
Somebody should check how he cleared his exam, may be copied, check his assignment, he is master of Plagiarism.

This portion of my reply is copied from article above….Obama pushed back against questions about whether he has ever plagiarized before. Obama said he usually gives credit when quoting people or using ideas, but he insisted that he is friends with Patrick.
Now let me emphasize on a portion of what he said…Obama said he “usually gives credit” when quoting people or using “ideas”.
Will then Obama, how about giving credit to Hillary. WHY? because just about everything you speak of during you campaign rallies are Hillary’s “ideas” not yours. When are you going to step up to the plate and acknowledge that?

Sounds like he is following in the bumbling steps of Duval Patrick. Birds of a feather do flock together !!! Come on with all that money you have raised Obama – you can at least hire some qualified speech writers who won’t steal the words of other men !!! I might even think of voting for you if you stopped with the pretty speeches and slogans and actually said something worthwhile for a change. !!! -

I am voting for Senator Hillary Clinton she is the SURE THING!!!

Grasping at straws. This is the sort of politics that we want to get away from. Last minute and desperate and nothing related to the issues we are faced with. Clinton’s negatives are definitely going up. Count me in as another Dem that will not support HRC if she steals the nomination.

SInce all three of Obama’s parents have PHd’s, one assumes he knows the definition of the word plagerism. HE stole the expression “yes we can” and he certainly didn’t author the term Ready to go, or Fired UP. its impossible to plagerize expressions of three words.
It is however possible to plagerize entire speeches, which is what he has done. And he is fully aware of this fact.

“I did not have sex with that woman.” Just words. “It depends on what your definition of is, is.” Just words. I like how the Clinton campaign is going after Obama on matters of character and principle.

The right words spoken at the right time by the right person are what make the words important, not just the words themselves. This hollow rhetoric given by a shallow competitor in order to glam on to some oratory of history without any real meaning is deceiving. Can Barak Obama hypnotize people into believing he actually said something of substance, YES HE CAN!

What a difference a day makes. NOW the Obama supporters want to talk about policy. Hmm, I wonder if they think a debate in Wisconsin would have been a good idea.

I think we Wisconsin Democrats better think long and hard. First, find out about “Camp Obama.” Second, taking someone elses words and leading people to believe they are your own, is not honest. The words he spoke from the Governor of Massachusetts are word for word however when you listen to the Governor he gave a much better speech.
Obama is staged. I feel as though Oprah has given us another Dr. PHIL, what is more creepy is the 7 counts of fainting at his “rallies” I heard clips from his response at each of the 7. Same words to a tee. Always someone in the front row, and he stops his talk and throws the person water then declares “DON’T WORRY SHE WILL BE FINE.” How does he know?????????????????
This is just too creepy for me. You probably are convincing yourself this is not big deal…yes it is. OR, you don’t believe it, take some time.

Kathleen Willey is a very sad case who is ignored by the media because of the tragedy surrounding her life.
Her gutless husband embezzled millions of dollars then committed suicide and left her to clean up the mess. After his death she had a breakdown and became quite dellusional.
The Final report of the US office of Independant Counsel reported she gave false testimony to the FBI.
“Willey gave false information to the FBI about her sexual relationship with a former boyfriend, and acknowledged having lied about it when the agents confronted her with contradictory evidence. Following Willey’s acknowledgment of the lie, the Independent Counsel agreed not to prosecute her for false statements in this regard.”[1] ]].[citation needed] According to Independent Counsel Robert Ray’s report, “Willey’s [Paula] Jones deposition testimony differed from her grand jury testimony on material aspects of the alleged incident.”[2]
Willeys accusations of break in etc by the Clintons was shown in the subsequent TV interviews she gave to be contradictory at best.
Her situation is sad yes but credible no.

ABC Should Have something better to talk about….. OBAMA is not dumb like his opponents! And if he used someone’s line SO WHAT!
This is a silly scenario that WOLFSON want to create for his madame Hillary!
We are fired up for OBAMA…YES WE CAN!
O B A M A ’08

Much ado about nothing, as usual from Hillaryland.
Obama’s right — she really IS just the same old smears, lies, distortions, feints, misrepresentations, manipulations and fear-mongering style of politics. She and her group are clearly very nervous, anxious and desperate.
Form now on, I’m going to refer to her and her surrogates as “The Vast Hillary-wing Conspiracy”!
LMAO!!!

The Clinton campaign makes me sick with these stupid trash attacks. They need to back off and let the party and this country move forward. I once admired the Clintons and I voted for Bill twice but now I am starting to despise them.

You know that Clinton feels like she is in trouble when she has to use measly things like this for her attack.

OMG, its true: the new CNN poll really does have Clinton and Obama tied!

Maybe this might explain why the Hillary campaign is acting so desperate:
Barack Obama has expanded his lead over Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin to 13 points, according to Public Policy Polling’s latest survey in the state.
Also, a new CNN poll show them tied in TX.
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Wow. Obama!!!!

Clinton has never had an original thought in her life. Every word she speaks is written by a paid staffer and read word for word from a paper in front of her. Who is she to criticize Obama for sharing a friends line that was very appropriate to the context, and for which he had prior consent. Clinton’s “speeches”, pamphlets, and plans aren’t worth the words they waste.

The entire Obama candidacy is based on giving “plagiarized” speeches that sound inspiring to his ditto-heads.
Now that the rest of the world is about to catch up with what some of us knew all along, Obama is what you will call a fraud. If he still has followers after this, then the country is in real trouble.

Obama lecturer in constitutional law University of Chicago Law School. So would he allow his students to do as he has done???
This man trades on his words that is why it is an issue.
Everything about his campaign is paint by numbers. Check out Patricks campaign for Governor. Obamas campaign is a carbon copy. Not simply due to Axelrod. So yes it raises the question how much is genuine and how much contrived. People believed HIS message only it may just be a spiel.

This really ticks me off. I’ve been following the campaign since last summer. I have never heard anything about Deval Patrick. So today I find out that he ran a campagin in 2006 with the theme of “change and yes we can,” he was a very inspiring speaker who went on to capture the nomination in Massahcusetts, he and Barrack are very good friends who share thoughts and ideas, he is a public supporer of Barrack, his state is unhappy with him and his lack of producing change as a governor that was reflected by nominating Hillary thus ignoring his and Ted Kennedy’s endorsment, and I am just NOW hearing about him. Where has the media been???????? These similarities just came to light????
And why are the Obama supporters blaming Hillary for Obama’s plagerism. Did she open his mouth and insert the words? Sounds like it was Patrick and Axelrod that did that. Any blame heading their way? This is unbelievable. I’m sure he will get a free pass though, just one more double standard I guess.
My fellow democrats – get ready for four more years of republican rule and for that we can thank the media and the followers not smart enough to have looked at all the candidates and made an informed choice.

Plagiarism, really? Aren’t all of the candidates speeches written by speech writers? Half of what you hear the candidates say are not their words, rather other peoples words. I am not an Obama fan, especially not a Clinton fan. Let’s stay true to issues at hand.

Who cares?!!! With the issues at stake for our country and the world, focus on real issues!

Good Hight Hillary its bed time, sweet dreams. Lights out now, tell your supporters they can go home now.

Thom You are very correct! I am not American, but seeing all what is going on news and mails, i see that all this ‘sharp shooting’ that is goin on aimed at certain individuals, by deviously minded people, just shows to what extent ‘some people’ will go to get to the White House!
Without degrading anyone or people, look at the people who each campaign is winning; Obama – educated (basically); Clinton – Non educated (basically as well). Who are the future? those > 50 or < 50?
Youth should be conscious of what they wish for themselves. Who looks at tommorrow? Who is getting to the younger generation? The truth is this, the person, who can appeal to, win the trust of and carry along the younger generation can send the US to a level better than where it has been.
All i will say for now is I hope the person, who wants the people of the United States of America, to move forward and continue being ahead wins the candidacy, without 'pointing out' or 'sharp shooting'!

Apparently Hillary is very concerned with the ISSUES!!!
Obama’08

You Clinton people are a sad lot.
Your girl has plagiarized a number of people (including Newt Gingrich) in her career — and don’t kid yourselves for a moment that there isn’t a small army of people digging them all up as I write!
You see the nomination slipping away, and you react with anger, viciousness and self-destruction that would make Karl Rove and Lee Atwater proud.
You live in a glass house, yet continue to insist upon throwing stones at Obama.
You really should dig yourselves.

From The New Republic (today):
She talked about goals “I hope will bring our country together,” a la Barack Obama.
In response to a question about excessive partisanship, she talked about how she’s not running to be president of the states that voted for Democrats, she’s running to be president of the United States. This closely resembles Obama’s “I don’t want to pit red America against blue America. I want to be the President of the United States of America.”
She said she didn’t want to be part of the first generation of Americans that didn’t leave the country better off than when they inherited it, which recalls John Edwards’s line about how we don’t want to be the first generation of Americans whose children do worse in life than they did.
She talked about how, if video stores can keep track of their tapes and DVDs, surely we can keep track of people here on visas, many of whom overstay them and become illegal immigrants. I’ve heard Edwards make the same point, except he explicitly cites Blockbuster.
She argued that our young men and women in Iraq are doing everything we ask of them; it’s the Bush administration and the Iraqi government who are letting them down. Edwards has argued that our soldiers have done everything we’ve asked of them; it’s our government that’s letting them down.
Finally, she made the point that opposing comprehensive immigration reform is tantamount to supporting amnesty, because it allows the present situation to continue. I’ve heard John McCain make the same point. (At least I think it was him–it’s possible that it was some other non-Hillary candidate.)

BREAKING: The Obama campaign is now distributing a video to the media that shows Hillary giving a speech where she uses the phrase “Fired up and ready to go”, clearly plagiarizing Barack Obama.

Words from a speech given two years ago are in the “public domain.” They can be used without a gratuitous citation; it happens ALL THE TIME. Get used to it! This just shows how desperate and petty the Clintons can be to hang on to any little thread of power to lash out at others. NO WAY!will it sell with the American people. Thinking people are fed up to the max with her pettiness and crocidile tears. GO OBAMA!

ATTENTION HILLARY LOVERS:
The superdelegates are watching. I suspect they do not like the Hillary campaign trashing the probable Dem nominee. She better be careful or they may pull the plug on her even before she has a chance on March 4th.

Hillary RODHAM Clinton, is a total throw back .
The Clinton, footstomping wont stop on the campaign trail. She will really cry when McCain
wins the presidency if SHE is nominated.

“Change” is simply a buzzword, and no one is really defining it, especially Obama, for whom it is merely a slogan. Since all the other candidates are so weak, it is highly likely that Obama will be our next President; he’s in the right place at the right time. We will probably learn in the next couple of years if charisma is all it takes to be President. Maybe it is. Behind-the-scenes “advisers” run things anyway; it’s been that way for decades.

Obama has been running a commercial in the Dallas area about healthcare reform which he ends by saying
“In order to fix healthcare we have to fix Washington first”
Now just how does he plan to “fix” Washington?
Obama is full of hot air!

No history making for this gullable society!
The media wins again . Good spinning CLINTONS!

I agree , you can’t lead a country through hope. Obama needs to stop preaching to his brothers and sisters. He’s a fake, there is nothing original about this man. He needs to go back to Illinois and come back in 10 years when he knows what he is actually doing.

Hope used to spring eternal, now it just springs….BOING!!!!!! Think I will just spring on over to the SIN network and watch WOLFIE HOWL!!!!

I thought all along that those were his own words, all his poetic and inspiring speeches.

Toni obviously you are sounding pretty hopeless yourself.
BUSH1/Clinton1
BUSH2/ Clinton2 NO WAY
WE BELIEVE OBAMA

Hillary is not a NEW YORKER
She is a FAKE

Of course this is going to get blown out of proportion, just like the Rezko issue. People look for any chink in his armor that they can find, legitimate or not. And the Clinton campaign should be ashamed; this whole election, they’ve done nothing but release press reports and dummy up videos to paint other candidates as not genuine, when that’s all their campaign has been from the beginning. Obama never makes the first strike on these things. It’s always Clinton. And it’s always disappointing. I was a big fan of the Clinton presidency and supported both Bill and Hillary, but their dirty tactics have left me in disbelief. To hell with the Clinton’s and their whole damned political machine.

The saddest part is that most American’s still think it matters who wins the Presidency. They have NO IDEA that the American Empire is declining rapidly, and committing economic, educational, and cultural suicide. America is doomed, and the sheeple haven’t a clue.

Come on guys! Let’s give Hussien Obama a break. He is only stealing from his friend’s speech! What is the big deal? Let’s get back to discussion of the real issues where he really sucks at.

Did you all realize that in EVERY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SINCE 1980 — 28 years ago — the name “Bush” or “Clinton” (or both) has appeared on the ballot? If you’re in your mid-to-late forties or younger, you’ve NEVER EVEN SEEN a presidential ballot without a Bush or Clinton on it!!!
TWENTY-EIGHT FRICKIN’ YEARS! More than a generation!
That is NOT democracy. That is dynastic monarchy.

You mean the “MAIN MAN” who promises to lead America to the PROMISED LAND needs to borrow a speech. LOL. Oh My Gosh! The Speech is all he had –promising America CHANGE. WHAT Kind of Change is America going to get if he isn’t using his own words? What is he going to do? All he had was words at first, so now what does he have? NOTHING!!!

Educate me please. When I say, “bring it on”, am I plagiarizing? If I say, “show me the money”, am I plagiarizing? I thought plagiarism is an idea in one sentence or more. Will he get away again? If I plagiarized, can I say it’s no big deal? It’s seem like it’s his pattern to just say it’s no big deal. Smoking pot- no big deal, plagiarism- no big deal,Retzko- no big deal, reciting plege of allegiance- no big deal, US flag pin- no big deal.
How can he just wash his hands and get no slap for it, whereas others get pounded for every everything even lose their livelihood for doing so.

you have to be kidding me Joe, where did you see that he copied the entire speech word for word? Please get a grip, there were three separate phrases. You Hillary folks must be really at the end of your rope. Please believe that the vast majority of intelligent Americans will see this as the insignificant. I am a life long Democrat, but I and many others like me, will cast our first ever vote for a Republican if Hillary wins the nomination. I am sure that there are many in Hillary’s camp who say they will do the same thing is Barak wins the nomination, so the bottom line is that it looks like McCain will be the next to live in the White House.

Freedoms enemies are the 5% that control the other
85% , I am 10% who know, …who the hell is Barry?
OBAMA is GRASS ROOTS, he is from the PEOPLE!
not a CORPORATE MACHINE.

ABC – Please re-check the two quotes Obama
used in his speeches that were attributed to a former Massachusetts governor. i believe the first quote originated with the Declaration of Independence and the second quote originated with John Kennedy.

Re: Joshua Thanks for educating me of what is going on in Massachusetts from the man Obama quoted.
I can’t believe the media let it continue this long with the ‘YES We Can’, slogan, when truthfully, it’s ‘No they Can’t’.
WAKE UP AMERICA. Read between the lines. Obama is not the one to be President. Wake Up! Do the Right thing. WAKE UP. (Oops, I had better name the source of this…Quote taken from Spike Lee Do the Right Thing)

WHAT HAPPENED TO OBAMA’S GOOD RHETORIC SKILLS. DID HE RUN OUT OF WORDS THIS TIME TO USE AND USED SOMEONE ELSE’S INSTEAD? THAT’S ASHAME!! BAD EXAMPLE FOR OUR KIDS IN SCHOOL. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!! HE SHOULD AT LEAST ACKNOWLEDGED THE PERSON WHOM HE BORROWED IT FROM.

Am I the only one who recognizes that “We hold these truths to be self-evident” comes from our Declaration of Independence? Or that Franklin Roosevelt originated “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”?
I’d quote yet someone else (whose name I don’t recall, so sorry, can’t attribute it): “If we don’t learn from the past, the past will repeat itself.” Or something along that line.
In my opinion, none of the major candidates in either party is the answer to our problems, so I choose to follow the addage “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.”

Incredible what I am reading. If Obama does anything incorrect its Hillary’s fault and not only that, everything that the Clinton’s do or say is a lie, is manufactured against Obama, is a deliberate attempt to discredit him, but anything the obama supporters have to say about Hillary should be taken at face value huh?
What is happening here? I thought most people could at least have some objectivity regarding politics. But the bashing of Hillary Clinton and then using Bill Clinton’s trangressions is sounding like a last stand ditch for the obama supporters.
How divided the Democrats have become. What is of concern, is wait until the Republicans get started on obama and Clinton as well – who are you going to blame then – Hillary?

HUSSIEN Obama! Nuff said!
“…ALSO, keep in mind that when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran. Barack Hussein Obama will NOT recite the Pledge of Allegiance nor will he show any reverence for our flag. While others place their hands over their hearts, Obama turns his back to the flag and slouches… “

I would hope the race card, the woman card would not matter. If the Democrats throw it around more than they are now, I think they will alienate moderate and independent voters of all races, sex and creed come November.
Are you telling me that Hillary or any politician for matter has not used words suggested during a meeting with their advisors in a speech? I hardly doubt it. Show us books and papers to show a pattern, then its a different story.
Hillary has a long dark vindicative trail of tears which would be a most unpleasant change. As a registered republican that is not happy with the party, Obama has shown me why he deserves my vote. She has not, but only reminded me of why I was so glad to see the Clintonista out of the White House. If she is the nominee, McCain is VERY attractive and most likely would get my vote.

Wow!!!
What a stupid thing she did!!!!
Now all over the Internet and even on the nightly news showing all she plagiarize. What a dumb and stupid move.
Their laughing at her all over the news.
Very dumb Hillary.

It is getting over, thats why this stuff is coming up. The clintons have already started giving up in texas cos of the demography that favors obama. It is now evident that obama will get more delegates in texas.
the clintons are in hot soup trying to squeeze some bad skeletons from the obama’s bedroom but couldnt find any but instead stole his jewelries by bringing up this speech from obamas friend, supporter and strategist.
Just as bill clinton will say, give me a break all theses are fairy tales are begining to hurt them!
the obama bandwagon is wide open, it is better to enter earlier than when you(hillary supporters) will be totally humiliated. by then u will start covering ur faces. i guess 11:55pm is the deadline to avoid switching disgrace.
the time has started ticking tik tak tik tak tik tak….

I think we all realize Clinton’s main attack point was not plagiarism but an attempt to box him in as ‘the candidate of rhetoric’ – along with their concurrent “creepy and Messianic” meme.
I would remind her of what the Milwauke Journal-Sentinel said when they endorsed Obama:
“The Obama campaign has been derisively and incorrectly described as more rock tour than political campaign and his supporters as more starry-eyed groupies than thoughtful voters. If detractors in either party want to continue characterizing the Obama campaign this way, they will have seriously underestimated both the electorate’s hunger for meaningful change in how the nation is governed and the candidate himself. In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Board on Wednesday, the first-term senator proved himself adept at detail and vision. They are not mutually exclusive.
“

in the Bible it states look at the plank in your eye, before you complain about someone else. that is my paraphrase of the passage. it seems the bill and hillary camp forgot about the times she used others language in her speeches especially bill. now, you can go online and check how much her speeches are her own. again, let’s look at the record of all candidates. i am still waiting on hillary supporters to explain how she plans to restructure health care when she is funded by medical lobbyists. her voting records falls right in step with the lobbyists’ agenda. well, hillary and bill supporters, can you answer this question? mccain isn’t any better but at least he is honest. hill and bill think we are all stupid and that is why she is going to lose.

Obama…By far is the lesser of 3 EVILS!!!

This tempest in a teapot concerning plagiarism is laughable. “We hold these truths to be self-evident..” can be found in the Declaration of Independence. “…we have is fear itself.” was spoken by Franklin Roosevelt. Both quotes are in the public domain. It would be nice if Clinton and Obama had known this already.

WakeUpPeople – the race card has been played since this election started. the race baiting is just beginning and it is going to get nasty. the clintons will do all of the dirty work for the republicans. let’s be honest – the majority of white people are not going to vote for b/c he is black. i wish people would be honest and say it. even this article is race baiting, racism drives every interaction in america. when our we as white people going to admit it.

I wonder what Obama’s third book will be – Gone With the Wind?

Students around the world will be very interested to know that they have not committed plagiarism if the original authors give them permission to reproduce their work without attribution!

Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his first inaugural address said: “Only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

If we want to be exact about the comments, Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used those exact words in his “I have a Dream” Speech in Washinton DC in 1963. “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal” is a direct quote from the Declaration of Independence. Dr. King used the this quote to affirm what our Founding Father”s affirmed in God”s creation of man “that we are equal.” Rev. Ken

You know I was an African-American strong Hillary supporter and even contributed to her campaign. I supported her for the Dem nomination ven though I felt she was way too polarizing to help the Dem’s win the White House. Look at the polls, McCain tops her. Now, I am strong supporter of Obama. I would have supported Hillary had she won the nomination but now with her recent attack of calling Obama a plagarizer for using Deval Patrick’s comments about “just words” and being a great speaker with inspiring and moving speeches. Deval Patrick’s speech and rightfully so Barack Obama’s use of the lines that “We hold these truths to be self-evident that are men are created equal” or “I have a dream” or “All we have to fear is fear itself” are powerful examples of “just words” that inspired a nation are very appropriate for Senator Obama to have used. Deval Patrick is a supporter of Barack Obama and they are personal friends. Deval may have even advised him that he received similar attacks about being all talk and no action as Hillary alludes to in her attacks. But, the greater point is that. The Clintons will do anything and say anything to win a 3rd Clinton term. Hillary and Bill aren’t going to step aside for the good of the party EVER. It’s not their nature. The nature is to attack to win no matter at what cost but of course this is no diffrent than the Republicans. The Clintons are so desperate to win this nomination. But, what people forget that the Clintons actions cost Al Gore the election in 2000. If I was Barack Obama, I would remind the nation of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the pardon’s scandal, and all the non-stop scandals of the Clinton which even cost the Dems to lose the Congress for years and sat back the center-left policies of the 1990′s. It cost us center-left judges as well which has hurt labor, middle class, women’s, reproduction, minorities rights because of the Clinton’s putting their own ambitions (or desires in President Clinton’s Lewinsky scandal)above the best thing for the Democratic Party which stands for the middle-class.
Senator Clinton’s desperate attacks such as Senator Obama avoiding debates and plagirisms attacks just turn my stomach towards the Clintons especially after their South Carolina race-card play. I was shocked that a man who won the presidency with strong African-American turn-out and who was proclaimed the first black president would under take such a divisive political ploy.
I’m very torn now. I would never vote for McCain, but I just might stay home in November too. And, many others might do the same if Hillary wins this nomination at a win by any means necessary approach.

THE DESPERATION OF TEAM CLINTON IS ACTUALLY PRETTY FUNNY TO WATCH. I IMAGINE THE FLAILING AND WHEEZING WILL ONLY GET WORSE OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.

Finally! The press is reporting something negative about Obama. And it is a major mistake. The man (and I like him very much) is riding on 75% ideas and words, 25% experience–and now we see that his words are not always his own. He is not perfect. He is not JFK, he is not as qualified as Hillary. He has captured the spirit of “change” but how far will that go? It seems he’s all ready run out of words and he’s had to start borrowing those too. Give him 8 years as VP and then he’ll know more about his own brand of “change” and how to achieve it.

Sad. I guess, because speaking is Obama’s best asset, the Clinton Campaign has to attack his speeches, but it sure looks and sound desperate.

This is the most stupid thing to report on. It’s kind of like the pot calling the kettle black. Clinton has been stealing Obama’s lines for weeks. Go look at her web site ……..LOL……even her supporters are using Obama Lines.
THIS just goes to show how small the Clinton’s are.

America doesn’t deserve Barack to be its President. You want Hillary — take her!

She inspires me to vote republican…

“But the Illinois senator then turned his focus on Sen. Hillary Clinton, suggesting the New York senator uses his words without his approval. ”
If it fits on a bumper sticker, it’s a slogan, not a speech. Go Hillary!

We need a president, not a preacher.

So she’s being using Obama’s words and no one says a word. How fair is that? Clearly the Clinton campain has nothing to offer. Instead they go after Obama’s credibility. Haha!!! This is right out of Rove’s play book. This time it will not work. No wonder nobody listens to them.

greenlee2 – in total agreement about the boomers – they have had the us vs. them mentality since Vietnam and it’s poisoned everything from our political processes (as evidenced by this message board) and societal exchanges (as evidenced by the continuing segregation in every corner of the country). Obama does represent perhaps another way of doing things – but it’s hard not to fight fire with fire. I can’t see an end to the cycle and it’s disheartening.

Don’t tell me words don’t matter.
I had a dream this afternoon that the brotherhood of mankind would become a reality.
Just words….
Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.
Just words….
We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal.
Just not my words….
Just not my speech….

Few Words….WHo GIVES A Bleep. I guess noones getting mad at ole Tommy Jefferson from borrowing from Thomas Paine. Was his inspiring words to a new nation any less inspiring? GIVE ME A Break…So this is your attempts to derail Obama? Weak try, but thats to be expected of the desperate. (thats my quote)

I was hoping to read news – rather than garbage such as this. Come on abc

I’m hoping Hillary has peaked too soon with her use of dirty tactics and that with the polls showing her back in front-runner status the last of the undecideds will swing Obama’s way.
I don’t think core Democrats appreciate that because the majority of us despise Bush because of his dismissiveness that we may despise Hillary just as much for the very same reason. There’s a solid group of about 40% of us in the middle who can’t stand either of them.
For those of us in the middle who relate to some parts of both parties but not all parts, the guiding force for our votes will likely be who can work across the aisle, it won’t be the war in Iraq after you factor in our distaste for entitlement programs (because the two issues are a push – entitlements in Iraq or entitlements at home . . . it’s a toss up)
Independents don’t like partisanship, which is why so many of us will be voting for McCain if Hillary gets the nomination. I don’t think core Democrats really understand that . . .

It’s amazing how morals continue to decline. At one time plagiarism was considered a big deal. Now people say “it’s a non-issue” “no big deal” etc. Have to wonder what’s going to be no big deal 10 years from now – 20 years from now.

obama can’t make speeches for himself and he can’t come up with original policy either: in May 2007, Hillary introduced a comprehensive Gulf Coast Recovery Agenda. Three months later, in August, Sen. Obama released a very similar proposal.

Yes, we can and will …. Plagiarize.

All I have to say: If America is that shallow and it is. I pity us all.
Note: all of the above words came out of Webster’s dicionary. Happy now.
P.S.: Obama wins Wisconsin!!

Wow, some people like to throw out the race card. I am White, Latino, Greek and Native American. I could care less what color someone is. I do care about what is best for the country. I honestly do not think that Obama is it.
We are free to choose our vote. No one can say you voted wrong. That is a personal choice. If you feel Obama is the best then vote for him. I think Hillary or McCain is the best choice. I can’t vote for someone I don’t believe in.

This is so silly as he has been using other people’s phrases for months now. What do you want? McCain and Hillary with more of the same as we have had for decades. Or Obama who is deffinatly going to shake things up, as they need to be. All politicians barrow phrases from other, Yes, republicans too. SO get off the stupid plagruism stuff and focus on who is going to make a real change.
VOTE OBAMA

Because Udo Sam (to your questions), a proverb, be it African or Austrian, is NOT a speech…

Hillary is calling someone deceitful?! (LOL) Obama must have a very clean background if this is all the dirt they can stir up. It appears that the Clintons’ strategy is: If you can’t win honestly, try discrediting your opponent. To Hillary: This wins you no support. It simply makes you look desperate.

Obama’s not talking about ideas, he’s just linking together catchphrases and snazzy soundbites. No wonder the media and the sheeple love this guy. “Hope! Change! Yes We Can!”
Can what? Lead everyone around raptuously like some kind of Black Pied Piper? Do his zealots feel more virtuous because we haven’t had a black president yet, so it’s Obama’s “time”? Huh? Are the rest of us who don’t subscribe to white liberal guilt supposed to get all excited about his blackness? (Never mind that he might as easily claim to be white, given he’s a 50/50 mix.)
Meanwhile, independents are looking for the detailed policy positions underneath the Obama slogans. Not surprisingly, there’s not much there. A lot of promises, and not a lot of national experience by which to judge his promise-keeping record.
The guy only has four years in national office — he hasn’t even finished his Senate term yet! Talk about “audacity” — Obama has a lot of nerve, excellent elocution, and not much else. That’s no reason to vote for someone, even if he is the black Second Coming of JFK.

Just to add what I forgot. Working class people (blue and white collar) still have NO RIGHTS in Illinois. No matter how hard and smart you work, no matter how great the results, the EMPLOYER can fire you just because he/she does not like you and you HAVE NO RECOURSE. The employer DOES NOT HAVE TO GIVE YOU A REASON. The employer can also give you a bad reference and prevent you from getting another job. Question: WHAT did Mr. OBAMA DO ABOUT IT, the civil rights lawyer? NOTHING. He probably wasn’t even aware of it.
I read all those blogs about the “Yes, we can”. For all those who have forgotten, in 1965 Sammy Davis, Jr. wrote an autobiography. It was called YES, I CAN: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. But Mr. Obama is no Sammy Davis.
As for Mrs. Clinton’s taxes, why should she disclose her income? Whatever she has, she earned it. Mr. Clinton came from a poor background but EXCELLED. He wazs a Rhodes scollar. Mrs. Clinton came from a middle class family. The Clinton’s didn’t even own a house until after his second term. The Obamas sit prettily in a 2 million dollar house (he got it for 300 hundred thousand less through his friend Rezko.) I am certain he did not live on skid row after his graduation from Harvard. He us now 46. Mrs. Obama was not sitting on her hands either. They made money. Her University pay: 200,000 dollars a year. Their kids go to the prestigious University of Chicago Laboratory School, the tuition being 20,000 dollars a crack (well, Mommy gets a 50% discount because she works for the University). Not exactly “blue collar working class” are they? The statement that his net worth is only 1.3 million is a joke.
As

I am very disappointed to see ABC report on such a non-issue.
I cannot in good conscience vote for a woman with such a petty disingenuous staff.
As an academic, today’s comment about “plagiarism” is extremely offensive. As a scientist, this sort of misinformation to move people away from an issue reminds me of the Bush Administration’s tactics to keep scientific issues out of the public domain.
The term has nothing to do with speeches, the whole purpose of such hyperboles is to point the listeners a broader truth. Words ARE important, a vital part of our laws and democracy. To allow that key message to fall through the cracks in order to WHINE about who said it first, is frankly insulting.

TALKING ABOUT PLAGIARISM . . .
IT IS NOW CLEAR that the Clintons are prepared to do anything to win! Thus, they accuse Sen. Obama of PRAGIARISM while they use his speech lines frequently in this campaign. And Obama should know that the title of Hillary’s book IT TAKES A VILLAGE was pragiarized word for word from an African proverb. Why is the press not talking about that!As they say, THOSE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULDN’T THROW THE FIRST STONE! I have an authoritative book of African provides that proves clearly that Hillary plagiarized the title of his book and part of his speech in 1996 at a big Democratic Party event! Anyone who cares to discover more can also use the Google search search engine to discover more by simply typing: “It takes a village” an African proverb. He or she will receive many pages of result on this topic!

Plagiarism really doesn’t matter in a campaign. Just ask former President Joe Biden.

Obama put people in to sleep with his rhetoric. It turned out that he stole line from someone else. It’s obviously he is an empty suite. He really made me think that the lines were originally from him. He’d never quoted or mentioned about the original of them and now he thinks that it is not a big deal. To down play his cheats.

Chris, like I said before – what Obama supporters hate is dismissiveness. I just told you how I make my decisions and you just dismissed all of them and told me how I’m going to vote.
Not my problem when McCain becomes President and he makes same-sex marriage unconstitutional. If you’re not willing to work with me, why should I be willing to work with you?

How is it plagerizing when they have the same speech writer??

I guess even he was getting tired of his same ole spiel and had to borrow some new words. Like Clinton stated: when the lights are off then what. Obama is not ready for prime time. He has no real solutions for any of this mess we are in. Michelle Obama says today that this is the first time she is really proud of America in her adult life???? Huh?? Because it now directly affects her? Hillary Clinton is the right solution for America now as the Oama rhetoric fades to black.

Why is Obama being lectured about plagiarism instead of the candidate from MA? Those comments came from the Declaration of Independence and Franklin D. Roosevelt! I think their are more things and issues to worry about right now then who said what!

Edwards’s campaign also blasted Obama for parroting the former senator in a foreign policy speech he gave Tuesday in which he said he wanted to work towards ending nuclear proliferation. They said the senator has followed Edwards on a number of issues this campaign year, including healthcare, poverty and now nuclear proliferation.
“If you need any more proof that John Edwards is shaping the race for the Democratic nomination, you don’t need to look any further than Senator Obama, who has followed Edwards’s lead on healthcare, poverty and, today, eliminating nuclear weapons,” Murray said in an e-mail to The Hill. “Next thing you know, he’ll be rooting for the Tar Heels.”
Obama copies line from Edwards 2003 announcement speech. “For months, Obama has been telling crowds, ‘I know I haven’t spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I’ve been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change.’ Edwards gave a similar spin to his short political resume when he announced his candidacy in September 2003, declaring, ‘I haven’t spent most of my life in politics, but I’ve spent enough time in Washington to know how much we need to change it.’”

Man, both Hillary supporters and the Republidorks are complete idiots! I’d be embarrassed to be associated with either of you the way you conduct yourselves.
Oh well, I’ve got my stock portfolio to keep me happy, I’m pretty sure the lot of you can’t say the same . . .

hill and bill are going to lose the election b/c they are divisive. she will probably win the nomination but who is going to vote her. she cannot win a red state and if you think she is going to win fl, keep dreaming. she has lost a percentage of the black vote which is one of the most loyal bases in the dem party. she does not appeal to independents. this election is over. mccain will win and we will be still fighting this war on terror for the several decades.

It’s amazing to me that college kids are voting for Obama… They don’t know squat about domestic policy, let alone FOREIGN policy! Many of those kids cannot event show Kenya on the map!

WELL SAID, Joan!… And the Obamanites have the NERVE to say that Bill didn’t do much to better our lives.. SHAME ON THEM! They deserve 4 more years with Dubya!

In Houston, Texas the Barak Obama Campaign Headquarters has a CUBAN FLAG hanging on the wall behind the front desk that has a picture of Che Guevara on it. The reporter tried to interview the women running the headquarters…. and she wouldn’t talk about it. She said “she didn’t have TIME to discuss the Cuban flag” which was hanging there on the wall. Then she took the microphone loose and ran like h*ll from the camera. If you all want to see this video go to MyFoxHouston.com My question to all on this post is…… do any of you know who and what the Cuban flag and Che Guevara stands for? Do any of you want to salute the Cuban flag? If so…. why? Does Obama endorse this Cuban flag being displayed, since he REFUSES to SALUTE THE AMERICAN FLAG???? And you better have a GOOD EXPLANATION.

Hey JOAN…you seem to know your candidate so well. Do you know who Abongo Roy Obama is? Just curious.

Navid – you did not answer my question instead you deflected it just like a clinton supporter. what did SHE do in the 1990s? i am an independent that thinks for himself. i agree with SamTheCat-that this election is a bust. hill and bill are going to lose and we will be in a war for next 20 or more years.

Go Tell Hillary to RELEASE HER TAX RETURN FIRST. This lady is not at all credible. She is an empty pant suit, just wants to be president by say anything and do anything method. She is worse than Republicans when it comes to nasty and dirty campaign. She is a loser, lost 8 states straight and ran away to Texas when the results were coming out. What is her next hiding place? Why is she running away?

Why is it when Clinton calls Obama on anything everyone says she is desperate. Yet when Obama calls out Clinton it is an example of politics of old? This double standard is also playing out in the sexism/racism issue. I really feel that Obama has been given a free ride so far. Today on Tucker (MSNBC) they stated this was a religious movement and not a political one. Google the Trinity Church in Chicago and I sure hope not after reading the about area. Rhetoric has played itself out without solutions. Hillary Clinton is the clear and obvious choice to turn America around.
Hillary Clinton 08 – the logical choice

Senator Obama’s only “new” ideas were ones that Senator Clinton proposed months ago:
* His “new” proposal for a national infrastructure bank is one that Hillary proposed August 8, 2007. [“I’m proud to co-sponsor Senator Dodd and Senator Hagel's National Infrastructure Bank Act that we just introduced to establish a federally-backed independent bank that will evaluate and finance large infrastructure projects by subsidies, loan guarantees, and bonds backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.” Rebuilding America speech, 8/8/07; S. 1926, 8/1/07]
* His “new” proposal to create 5 million green collar jobs was proposed by Hillary on November 5, 2007. [“And three, to move us from a carbon-based economy to an efficient, green economy by unleashing a wave of private-sector innovation in clean energy and energy efficiency. I believe that will create at least five million good new jobs from clean energy over the next decade.” Energy and Climate speech, 11/5/07]
o Google CEO Eric Schmidt praises Hillary’s plan to create 5 million Green Collar jobs, 11/5/07: “By emphasizing the connection between promoting a green efficient economy and job creation, Senator Clinton’s plan seeks to harness the power of technology and innovation to address one of our most pressing global challenges…The goal of producing 5 million new jobs can be achieved by private sector investment and bipartisan support for increased research and development in efficiency and clean energy.”

Yes, it was ghostwritten… and I suppose you would say that Barry’s books are not ghostwritten?? The man CANNNOT write his one speeches, yet he’s capable of writing his own books. Yeah, right!

First off if he’s a friend of Obama, then who cares. It’s not what he says, but what he stands for. Hillary is running a dirty campaign and is looking for anything to put Obama down. It’s ridiculous anyone even supports her right now. I liked both candidates until she started running her dirty campaigning, and lost track of bringing this country back on it’s feet, and giving us something to vote for. Her campaigning reminds me of Bush and that I DON’T like at all.

HOW CAN HE SAY THIS IS NOT A BIG DEAL!!!! I am a teacher/health professional. The issue is he misled people to think that these were his own words. Plagiarism involves taking someone elses work and making it appear as though it were your own.
Who cares it is his so-called friend. I don’t let students use their friends work!!!!

“Yes we can!!!”
–deval patrick
Vote Patrick! Um…I mean Vote Obama!

“Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin
HILLIARY FOR PRESIDENT!!!

Don’t you journalists think that you should report on the discrepancies between the actual votes for Obama and the reported votes from NY than this silly spin?
No, we should be reporting on the votes in Florida and Michigan.

EVANS writes: “If you think Hillary can beat us Republican, think again”.
Ha. Nice try.
Just on the way home happened to listen to Hannity the moron passionately suggesting Republicans in TX should vote for Hussein.
Aren’t you guys scared the hell about Hillary being the nominee? all the b.s about Hillary “uniting” republicans not withstanding.

Wow that looks really good. I wasn’t proud to be an American until recently. Makes ya really excited to have her as the first lady.

Michelle Obama you are no Jackie Kennedy! She was proud to be an American. Shame Shame.

This is the most ludicrous charge that I’ve ever heard. The fact that the Clinton campaign has resorted to such cheap and baseless accusations suggests how truly desperate it has become in the face of Obama’s now established superiority as a candidate for the leadership of the Democratic Party. Senator Obama was evidently quoting aphorisms from famous speeches and did not need to define the obvious and credit his sources, because they are evident to the American public (to the point of cliche), and to anyone with any acquaintance with American history. Senator Obama was referring to the capacity for visionary words to transcend the status of rhetoric, and for the Clintons to accuse him of plagiarism attests to just how willfully obtuse their desperation has rendered them. An author of two books, Senator Obama does not need to plagiarise, since he, unlike many of his rivals, speaks with sincerity and conviction. The tone of his voice at this point in his Wisconsin speech makes it evident (to anyone whose judgment isn’t clouded by ulterior motives) that quotation was implied. I am appalled by the insipid response of the media to this ridiculous, foundationless accusation.

Two observations on the plagiarism :-
1) It is not so much about the words and the quotations used by Obama but the tactical approach in combat. It is the same tactical approach coupled with the same words and if you watch the video the same mannerism and same arrogant dismissive style. Both politicians are cloned by the same creator – David Axelrod. This is scary because it is like a Stepford factory, only that this is Axelrod factory. It’s like Karl Rove creating a president out of a bush.
2) Obama has run on a campaign of the future, of hope, freshness, authenticity and purity. In short, he is the messiah of politics. The fact that he and his campaign have to come out in defence has cracked that image. I noticed that when Obama was defending himself on camera, his body language speaks for itself – his eyes were looking down – he was embarrassed to be caught with his hands in the cookie jar.

Is the Hillaryland REALLY getting this desperate? Gov. Patrick is a friend of Obama, and told him that he could use those words…that’s NOT plagarism. Does Hillary tell everyone in the audience who wrote the speech she is about to give? SHE doesn’t write those speeches, her speechwriters do that for her, as well as for Obama. Perhaps Obama should put Gov. Patrick on his speechwriting staff.

Barack is a copycat, and a liar, and a clever manipulator!

“I have a dream”, well a reality check actually. Finally, Senator Obama busted for his Duval speech, along with his wife Michele for her “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country” speech.
Bye…Bye back to the south side of Chicago. Luv Ya!

Someone who thinks that plagiarism is ok and considers themselves reasonably intelligent shows how low our morals have gone.

Oh yea, like this is enough for me not to vote for Obama…Yea right..NOT :-)

Joe, I agree with you. Finding out that our candidate is a phony is not enough for me to change either.

This must be one of those “bonehead” moments he occassionally get like the Rezko association. Wonder how many bonehead moments he’ll have if he gets elected.

Hahaha – It’s not plagiarism if you’re friend helps you write it, and states explicitly that he condones the use of his style. Plagiarism is when Hillary Clinton steals Senator Obama’s message every other week such as “change, Yes we will, etc.” Then the smarmy Clintonites point a lawyerly finger at Obama crying foul. Hypocrites. Goooooodbye Clintons forever… I used to support you but now I hate you for your Karl Rove campaign, your lies (so many lies), and your unprecedented hypocrisy.

“I DON’T LET PEOPLE OR THE NEWS TO MAKE DECISONS FOR ME” .
Until that is…Wolf Blitzer and Chris Mathews has been making decisions for every one promoting Senator Hussein for months. It was fun. Wasn’t it?

Who wants a Gov. Patrick’s CLONE to be the POTUS???
FAKE FAKE FAKE
FRAUD FRAUD FRAUD

“they can not win under normal competition”
Normal Competition for a Obama Zombie =
1)Whole media pimping for your candidate i.e. throw out all journalistic ethics and display visceral hatred for Hillary and promote Hussein.
2)Call your opponenet “divisive” “carries baggage” and promote yourself as the embodiment of all virtues.
3)If any of #2 is challenged cry like a wimp and call the opponents racist.
YUP.YUP. “Normal competition” is over.

5 reasons why Dems should avoid Hillary:
1. Hillary is one of the most divisive figures in modern history. That is a fact.
2. More than half the nation is against Hillary. That is a fact.
3. Hillary brings less independents to support the Democratic party. That is a fact.
4. Hillary had her chance in the Whitehouse and she FAILED in Healthcare. That is a fact.
5. In all her 35 years of cooked up experience, Americans have difficulty finding even one single achivement. That is a fact.
So why vote for a failed horse or a donkey? She has no instinct for what is right, because Clintons have no respect for moral values. America definitely deserves a better political leader for the 21st century. A time comes and a time goes. Clintons had their time. Its over. Turn the page folks. Hillary will be blunder for us in November.
Hillary and Bush
1. Clinton and Bush: Both were for the war in Iraq
2. Both were for invading Iran
3. Both cannot manage one’s own campaign or the country
4. Both stubbornly refuse to accept their mistakes. Both argue that they are right no matter what happens.
5. Both squandered all the money and go into deficit.
Besides, if Hillary Clinton is so smart, how in the world did she squander away an inevitable lead that she possessed just three months ago, and HOW IN THE WORLD DID SHE END UP IN THE SITUATION SHE NOW FINDS HERSELF????
We should not want someone this inept in the Whitehouse! DANGEROUS!!!

Correction to previous comment:
Senator “Clinton” has always provided solutions and Obama just performs.

I just can’t figure out how a man who professes to be able to change America & the World, had to have his wife tell him to change his smoking habits.

I wonder if they cheated in College if that’s allowed at Harvard Univesity that makes the college look real bad.

“He suggested we use these lines.” That is not Plagiarism. Clinton on the other hand must be VERY DESPERATE to want Obama out of the way. After all, Clinton can NOT beat Obama in a ‘Fair and Square’ competition so she has to keep using DIRTY tricks to push him back. Well, the more Clinton uses dirty tricks, the more the stuff falls right back on her.

Obama’s wife just said she has “never been proud of America until now.” Give me a break… How about Lincoln for one?

In the Aug. issue of Progressive magazine Elizabeth Edwards goes so far as to call Obama an outright copycat, accusing him of “lifting her husband’s best lines.” E. Edwards: “You listen to the language of what people say, particularly Obama, who seems to be using a lot of John’s 2004 language, which is maybe not surprising since one of his speechwriters was one of our speechwriters, his media guy was our media guy. These people know John’s mantra as well as anybody could know it. They’ve moved from ‘hope is on the way’ to ‘the audacity of hope.’ I’m constantly hearing things in a familiar tone.”

HILLARY IS JUST DESPERATE. PERIOD. HER CAMPAIGN IS FULL OF A BUNCH OF LOSERS. One feels sad for them. Where is that candidate of inevitability now? Go tell her to release her TAX returns. Obama has released his tax return. He is more honest than her. And Americans know that, that is why she is losing so badly everywhere. Your candidate is wrong folks, no matter what you say or do against Obama, Americans know that she is more corrupt that anyone out there.

HA! Hillary supporters make me laugh. The guy Obama got the words from is Obama’s friend. They were both talking about Hillary’s charge that he’s nothing but words and his friend told him to use his words. That’s not plagiarism if the person who said the words said you can use them. You Hillary supports are so desperate. Mathematically now you know you can’t honestly win, everyone knows you’re done for. AY! We want “Fired up and Ready to Go” Back! Ha, what desperate fools, if you support her because she’s a woman wouldn’t you want a honest woman doesn’t say anything to get elected.

Obamas wife has never been proud of her country untill now. But this country gave her the opportunity to go to college, be a lawyer. She’s gotton alot more than most, guess it wasn’t good enough for her. Yep, this is the potential first Lady & mother & wife.

Hillary and her supporters must be proud?? Hillary’s public service : the Cattle Futures profits, the White Water, the Rose Firm, The Travelgate, The Pardongate, The Filegate, Vincent Foster, the White House funiture Theftgate,and the Wal-Mart Board member against workers’ right to form a union, just to name a few. Yes, you can be proud of Hillary? I don’t get it, why some unions chose to back Hillary who represent anti-unions? LOL .. This is some realty show better than the one on TV!!!

we have 3 senators in the final, McCain Obama and Clinton. All senators are all words/talks and no governing experience. People should start asking who will they pick for their cabinets.

Anderson Cooper just did an extended piece on this topic. They also said that she is up in the WI polls. Not sure where some of these people get their “facts”.

I am so proud of Obama for admitting his mistake. It will be a cold day in hell before Hillay admits her mistake in voting for going to war. He is the real statesman of the two.

look the media brought these items up some quite a long time ago, but since it didn’t have any legs, Obama just kept going and got sloppy. He of course believed he could get away with anything. Voters in Massachusetts weren’t fooled twice, they bought that stuff from Deval Patrick and now they are sorry. No wonder he couldn’t deliver that state for obama.

Obama came up with a NEW song to make up for copying D. Patrick’s speech.
“I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
spread my wings and fly away…”
Oopps, this is an R. Kelly song. Copied words again.

I’m sorry for all those young people that don’t remember that a few words from Biden, for which he had given credit to the original author many times and then didn’t in ONE tv interview, brought down his campaign in a nano-second. So maybe times have changed and it’s “no big deal” like ‘pimping’ is just a phrase we all use, and ‘periodically, when she’s feeling down” doesn’t mean anything and ‘her voters will come to me, but will mine got to her’ is not divisive, but I’m old school and his entire campaign is based on a higher minded campaign and that’s just a false premise. Remeber we’re voting for a President not a Candidate and this candidate, in any case, is showing his vulnerabilities.

I just looked at the transcript of what Obama said.
The funny thing is that the only thing that can be considered “plagiarism” is really just two words, which ironically are the words: “just words.” The rest is from speeches so famous that they require no attribution.
Clinton is such a sleaze. Who buys this garbage anyway? And is this one of her vaunted “solutions for america”?

I’d rather have Obama borrow a few words at the suggestion of a friend than have Hillary vote to borrow a couple trillion from China to finance Bush’s idiotic war in Iraq?
Really, which is worse?
The Clintons internal polling must look pretty awful, cause these folks are starting to look DESPERATE.

I think the media needs to examine many Obama speeches, which are taken directly from Patrick 2006 campaign. This is not an isolated incidence.
Nor did Obama invent “charged up and ready to go,” it was given to him by a South Carolina pol, some time ago.
Clinton’s chant is: “yes, we will,” it is not “yes, we can,” and Obama took that chant from Caesar Chavez.
Let’s get real — nothing about Obama’s campaign is as “fresh” as he claims.

Between this and Michelle Obama basically saying she hasn’t been proud to be American until NOW (meaning she’s not proud of America unless it elects her husband) …..the Obamas are TOAST. If Hillary doesn’t use this – then the GOP will. This will NOT play well with Americans. Adios Michelle – thanks for showing your true colors.

I wish they would run the software on this speech that is used in some High schools and maybe then you would find it is plagiarism. I believe that theese are words that stir feeling in many americans and to find theese speeches are just passed around makes me sick and sad

I have just read these comments by so many pepople and can’t understand why so many of you can’t see what Obama is all about. Please check his voting record in senate. You will clearly see that Hillary is the True American and leader here.

The best thing about this election season is hearing the Obama supporters say the exact same thing about the Clintons that the Republicans said about them for 8 looong years.
It’s good to on the Right. And right.

ABC’s “Late Show With Jimmy Kimmel” and the rest of the late shows should give their writers the night off (may be the week off), since Barack and Michelle obama provided them with plenty of material for their jokes.

To Wisonsin voters – please consider voting for Hillary Clinton. Yes, Obama speaks well and gives good speeches – but he is just not seasoned enough to be President. Hillary is the best qualified candidate. Please consider voting for Hillary.

Another commercial: BO dragging on weed while saying “I have visions”.

Wrong JO it’s the Obama supporters that are saying they will not support Hillary if she gets in by a margin of 2-1 which leaves me to believe that Obama supporters are really Republicans.

Mr. Obama, in my University, plagiarism is a serious offence, one if convicted will get you not only suspended but kicked out of the University for good. Please name your sources. You are running for President. Please name your Iraq source voting also. Thanks.

Hillary Clinton Pre-election day Checklist:
1. Lie
2. Distort and Defame
3. Pander
4. Accuse
5. Cry
6. Go back to NYC for more $$$

This is another baseless attack… but I think 98% of people can see through the old Clinton tricks by now.
OBVIOUSLY, HILLARY IS GETTING DESPERATE.
OBAMA 08

I think that it is funny how the Clinton campaign continues to nit pick at everything that Obama does. This is starting to make a lot of us sick of these political games and for the record to all of you that have said that Sen. Obama used the whole speech that is not true, because the only portion of that has been shown is part of his speech. I wish some people would get your facts straight before jumping on the band wagon and jumping to conclusions. Furthermore if everyone would notice, Sen. Obama and Gov. Duval are great friends, and they also have the same Campaign consultant in which Gov. Duval and Sen. Obama have both stated that Gov. Duval had suggested that Sen. Obama used his lines. So it shows that it was not a big deal with the one that Obama “stole” the section of his speech from. This is just another tactic to take the focus off of Clintons weaknesses and demoralize the surge of Obama, because she is very desperate for votes and the win.

BUSH and HILLARY both supported the idiotic Iraq war.
OBAMA stood against it.
BUSH AND HILLARY take money from corporate special interest lobbyists.
OBAMA refuses it.
BUSH and HILLARY have had a hand in presidential power for the last 28 years.
OBAMA is a washington outsider.
VOTE OBAMA, TAKE BACK GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE

obama relies on the power of his words, and thinks that’s just fine. then when we find out he “borrowed” the words, he says so what. but words are what he’s used to get the followers going. of course, he has policy positions, but he “borrowed” them from hillary and a few from edwards and others, then claimed them as his own. to those obamaites who say no that’s not true, see his website, you’re beyond hope if you don’t know that websites just provide self-serving propaganda. do some research and find the records of hillary putting out proposals and obama then putting out those same proposals three months later. he’s done it over and over. then when she mentions one of her proposals he accuses her of getting the idea from him! the thing is, there are actually records, and even though hillary can’t call him on his lies, because the media would just say she’s going negative, the repubs will have no qualms whatever. and obamaites, don’t call it swiftboating either. i see that all the time. it isn’t swiftboating to point out the truth about an opponent.

Does this previous post tell us something about where Hillary’s folks are taking the debate about our nation’s future?
By “MR”
Obama supporter=frauds planted by Sean Hanitty and Rush Slimeball. You can’t fool me I see right through you Obamacans. The real supporters are in for a rude awakening come November. So sad.

Young people, vote for your man, Senator Obama. It has always been young people who step up and finally assume responsibility to elect a new generation to the White House. You are young, ready to try something new, energetic and hopeful. All these old people are set in their ways and afraid of change. It’s time for you to make this country what you want it to be–for you and for generations to come.

just another point for the obamaites who blame hillary for anything bad that anybody dares to say about their guy. are you going to blame hillary if obama gets the nomination and she’s out of the race? who will you blame then? the media who practically hypnotized you into not seeing through this guy? the dirty trick repubs, even though mccain is not like bush/rove in that regard? there’s always someone to blame. i suggest looking at obama and looking in the mirror.

just another point for the obamaites who blame hillary for anything bad that anybody dares to say about their guy. are you going to blame hillary if obama gets the nomination and she’s out of the race? who will you blame then? the media who practically hypnotized you into not seeing through this guy? the dirty trick repubs, even though mccain is not like bush/rove in that regard? there’s always someone to blame. i suggest looking at obama and looking in the mirror.

well said so saddened

Geez, how many articles does ABC have on this matter? Its important to know because in the spirit of fairness I think you’re going to need to devote just as many articles to the fact that Hillary plagiarized parts of It Takes a Village.
Talking about the effect the failure to acknowledge her co-authorship has had on her professional life, unacknowledged co-author Barbara Feinman said:
“The problem came when Mrs. Clinton decided, for reasons still a mystery to me, not to acknowledge my help, or that of anyone else, by name. Because the White House had issued a press release early on in the process stating that I had been hired to “help prepare the manuscript,” when it was finished and there was no mention of me in the acknowledgments, the anti-Clinton forces went to town. The irony was that by not acknowledging me, rather than diminishing my role, she unwittingly elevated me to a sort of literary Joan of Arc.”
Man, let’s see all you holier-than-thou Hillary supporters try and explain this as somehow different from Obama . . .

So, this what the race to white house has evolved into? It has become an issue of who can be made to look better by tearing down your opponent. Instead of the candidates just giving us their stand on the issues and letting the voters decide, we have to endure this endless stream of attacks on each other. I partly blame the media for this, because they love it!!! They know what sells in America and helps their ratings. They know that a lot of Americans love it also when it becomes a heated argument or a contentious discourse bordering on being belligerent. It seems that the real issues aren’t even discussed. They become secondary to the next juicy tidbit that has been revealed that could somehow destroy someone’s character.
It is a shame though because the real losers in all this are the American voters.
But, I can’t be too harsh on the media. After all they are just giving us what we want. Americans favorite TV programs are indication of what they want.We watch sex, violence and reality TV, which is so far from reality.
It has gotten so bad that the candidates themselves are telling people that if they want to know how they stand on certain issues, then go to their website and find out. Because they know they won’t find out through the television and media.
What a circus!!! But, everyone loves a circus!!! Right????
joerecc

I wish you people would think,,,,obama’s policies were critized when he first stated campigning…he platform was extremely limited..Hillary has always had a platform and has a voting record to back it up..Obama’s record is limited particularly since his State record he sat on the fence too often …he was not eligible to vote on the Iraq war..saying what he would have done means nothing…could have would should…we will never know

I cannot believe that we are
actually evaluating our next
President on who wrote his speeches
and whether he uses phrases that
other people have raced. ABC is a
Clinton spin machine. This is absurd
to even be talking about something
so totally irrelevant.
Wake up America, you are being
played the Clinton machine who can’t
define the word “is”, who want to
make rule changes in the middle of
an election and who will really do
anything to obtain power. PLEASE
WHERE IS THE PARTY LEADERSHIP WHEN
SOMETHING SO WRONG IS GOING ON.

When I buy a greeting card I search for one that reflects my feelings towards the intended recipient. When I find one that someone has penned that suits my intentions, but for some egotistical reason the author’s name appears below the verse, I decline. The thoughts are mine, (original to me but not restricted by me) so I defray, desiring to deliver my message solitarily, so it may endorse my feelings on a personal level. Never blind to the fact that there are millions more who embrace those feelings: a dream , a hope, a love, change. We share feelings, we can share words. Speak what you mean. Mean what you say.

Oh my goodness, so Mrs Obama is just now proud to be an American well I understand why he does not pledge allegiance,, you know I am a working class mother, and a husband in the military and quess what since I was born my mother and father enstowed into me that I must be proud of who i am and where i am from , no matter how hard life gets, you will succeed as long as you believe in yourself and love and support those who fight and die for this nation, so all the war heroes, does she support, you know i heard the other day Berkley ask Us Marines to leave city, they were unwelcomed, and some say that representives dont recognize a pin of the United States flag, as a symbol of pride faith and the symbol of what Americans see with pride, because it represents the war in Iraq what a bunch of crock,, you are an American and you should be proud of where your from, because her we are all tested but you have the freedom to do as you wish and to be what you want, shame and this is coming from a wife of the next presidental nominee, so if he was not followed by the American people , she would not be proud to be in America,,mmm well there you go even the next Presidential and his wife have had little faith in America,, sheees,,, what are we doing,,,, voting for great speeches of togetherness and taking everything in as if we dont face reality that every step to pass what is needed for the American people will be a fight , what do people think our representatives are going to pass all his bills,,,wake up America it will take work,, and how will he handle an issue,,,,,,

Plagarism is not the issue. Hypocrisy is. Just Words? Just Speeches? That’s what Obama said and says, just words and just speeches. The problem with Obama is you get the feeling that it is not just words he is lifting. The World knows who Hillary Clinton is and stands for. The World knows who John McCain is and what he stands for. Who is the real Barak Obama? That will be the question the Republicans will ask, let us hope that more democrats start asking the question. Is he really ready to lead, as ready as he thinks he is, or is he just words and just speeches.

Is this really an argument? Wolfson says “When you’re running on your rhetoric and the power of your oratory”??? Who said that is what he was running on? Hillary? Hmm, I wonder if she has speech writers and if so does she do a running credit as she speaks?
Obama has never come out and said “I am here to deliver rhetoric for the American people”!!!
On the other hand, what his “rhetoric” actually says is coming true. Hillary will say or do anything to win. The entire days news cycle was taken up by this instead of the candidates addressing the issues that we face. It is politics as usual for Hillary.
I mean, he could come out and talk about the fact that Hillary already failed once on healthcare. Or he could bring up how the Clintons set the stage for the Republican dominance of the last 14 years in Congress. Or how when her husband screwed her over, she didn’t fight, she fell in line behind him. BUT he doesn’t. He’s far too classy and actually living the change he talks about.

cybermom75/ruth – is it Obama’s platform that lacks depth or is it your knowledge of his platform that lacks depth.
60% of Democrats thought Hillary had the better economic plan than Barack and Hillary supporters seem to think that she came out with her plan first. The reality is that she didn’t release hers until mid-January . . . a week AFTER the CNN survey showed that most voters thought hers was best.
Obama’s not a magician – he can’t make people hear things if they’re not willing to listen . . .
PS Sybil – the Cesar Chavez saying was all over the news to demonstrate how both Hillary and Obama were using sayings from other people without mentioning his name . . . I guess that ought to make Hillary a “phony” and a “charlatan” too, then right? Or are you another holier-than-thou Hillary supporter not basing their judgments on the principles they profess to be about . . .

Great post Vimed ; not so eloquent BUT YOU are Right ON. Everyone should read your post. You also ask how will he (Obama) handle an issue?
Let’s just hope that if becomes president He doesn’t try to vote PRESENT (not voting) when he is faced with an issue, like he did over 100 times as an Illinois politician
joerecc

The Republicans will Love it if the Dems are so stupid to put Obama in the nominee. He’s already hung himself & the GOP will shred him up & toss him out!

Obama is so afraid of debating because his ideas are not his own. They are not thought through. They were stolen from Mrs. Clinton and one of his advisers made subtle changes. Remember the debates? Please, I hope some of you studied them. None of us are going to have lunch or a beer with the next president. But we will all have to live with their economic plan. We will all have to live with their ability to think for themselves and take actions without holding the hands of a mentor. This man, Obama is a junior senator. This is like asking an intern to perform a vasectomy, it’s not going to be pretty.

Well in the middle of this “war of words” I found something very interesting… The name for the new campaign that Hillary is using “Solutions for America” is pretty similar to a Campaign booklet in 2004 from John Edwards “Real Solutions for America”… isn’t that funny… every time she tries to say something bad it comes back like a boomerang… …
…and also she stole Edward’s Blockbuster-immigration line… I saw that on Nightline ABC…

Yes, Obama college student supporters! You can plagiarize too! It’s alright to cheat in your exams! It worked for Obama, it can work for your grades too!

BTW, just so people don’t lose perspective here, what Obama did was to borrow one snappy comeback line from Deval Patrick out on the stump. But unfortunately in the anti-intellectual short-attention span world that is modern America, you know that there will be people saying, ‘hey dude you know I heard Obama copied all his speeches from this other guy?’
Again, I am only hopeful that not too many of those ignoramuses will actually vote.

THE OBAMA FANS WANT US TO STOP WITH THIS NONSENSE AND LOOK AT THE DETAILS FROM OBAMA…WHAT DETAILS! HE STARES INTO THE AUDIANCE WITH A LOOK OF CUNNING CURIOSITY. HE KNOWS THAT THE YOUNG AND RICH WILL BUY ANYTHING THAT SOUNDS OR LOOKS RICH. THE PROBLEM IS THAT HIS WORDS ARE CHEAP BECAUSE THEY ARE AND HAVE NOT BEEN HIS OWN. HOW STUPID IS AMERICA TO BUY THIS NONSENSE? IT SEEMS THAT THE PEOPLE WITH REALLY NO WORRIES CARE ABOUT THIS MAN AND MY QUESTION TO THEM IS WHY? ARE YOU THAT BORED WITH YOUR LIFE THAT YOU FIND SO MUCH EXITMENT IN HIM YOU CANT SEE THAT YOU ARE BEING FOOLED. I HAVE YET TO SEE HIM TALK SPECIFICS ABOUT ANY TOPIC. HE WILL SHORT PHRASE EVERYTHING. WE NEED TO CHANGE ARE SCHOOLS WE NEED BETTER CARS….OK? SPECIFICS NO ONE CARES ABOUT HOW JUST HOW IT SOUNDS!!!!! THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR BUSH I BET OBAMAS STUMPS ON THAT! YOU MIGHT NOT LIKE HILLARY BUT DAMN IT SHE WILL GET IT DONE! AND THAT SHOULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING NOT WHAT YOU SAY IN KINDNESS OR SPIRIT! WE HAVE SO MUCH AT STAKE PEOPLE PLEASE VOTE FOR WHAT SEEMS TO REACH THE ISSUES. HILLARY EXPLAINS AND TAKES QUESTIONS AND HAS DONE GOOD FOR THE PEOPLE CAN I ASK FOR SAME FROM YOU?

My God,
Is this how far the Democrats have fallen?
First, he’s too original and therefore radical?
Then He sounds too genuine, he must be a stuffed shirt?
Now, He isn’t original enough?
As compared to what!
THIS IS SMOKE AND MIRRORS, PEOPLE!
I can’t believe the networks actually bought this line of attack!
This is the last time any of Clintonites get to say the news hates Hillary. If they are willing to dish up this kind of attack instead of substantive issues… Every attack has been made to sound plausible with no fact checking!
Anyone who buys this one is stupider than a “W.” Republican

Obama readily admitted using / borrowing words and gave credit. Admitting….that takes quite a while longer for a Clinton…. say maybe after years of investigations! Does anyone remember Whitewater or the trail of bodies that followed Bill while he was in Arkansas?

So if you take complete sections of a speech from someone you know, it’s “borrowing,” not “plagiarism.” Right. Sure.

This article, attack, debate, is all pure bull. Its a joke. This is petty and a desperate and pathetic attempt at trying to tarnish Obama’s record. If you think about it, its a fairly retarted argument. What did Obama do exactly? Whats more pathetic is that this is “NEWS”

I wonder what his third book will be – Gone with the Wind!

My impression: The Obama supporters are busy in the field, running a successful campaign; The clinton’s backers are bored, frustrated and lingering around participating in any online forum they can find.
Lastly, Obama’s lines are so inspirationals that Clinton herself uses them all the time.

Yaaaaawwwwnnnnnn,
Is this really worth discussing?

Clinton used “fired up” which is a cliche that anyone can use- she didn’t use one of his speeches WORD FOR WORD. There is a BIG DIFFERENCE.

Hillary’s getting desperate and grabbing at WORDS. The media keeps saying he plagarized the Governor’s words. Whoops, he’s quoting historical words. She’s quoting Obama’s words. Who’s really the plagarist?

Maybe now people will realize that Obama is just talk and no action. He is good at hyping a crowd, but that does not fix anything. Take away the teleprompter and you are able to see that he is nothing without his speeches.

Clintons say and do anything whether it is relevant or not. Just to get elected.

Christine – it was a political speech; not a term paper. You do know all these candidates have speech writers, right? And you know the guy who was “plagiarized” suggested Obama use those words, because he faced a similar attack two years ago, right? So is there really a difference between speech writers and a supporting office holder?

So much for him using good judgment. He admits he “borrowed” the words and he should probably have acknowledged that it wasn’t his own thoughts, that Patrick had suggested he say it.

Um, Jessica, Obama isn’t a school kid writing a paper.
And the funny thing is the whole point of that part of his speech was about the power of words, which he demonstrated by quoting famous lines from previous speeches. The irony never ends.

OK ABC how long are going to have this at the very top. Obama should of cited Patrick. I did think that ABC did a good job on their newscast however when they showed a clip of Hillary copying Edwards words about Blockbuster.
The difference might be that Patrick gave Obama the idea to use his words, I doubt Edwards gave Permission to Hillary.
Bottom line. Politicians steal and reuse everybody’s lines.

So plagiarizing/borrowing words is OK as long as you’re a politician. Obama is setting a great example for present and future students…and we wonder why many Americans do not trust those who try to lead us.

This fight over words belong to someone else is childish and petty!!!!! If you want to get techinacal about it, the words belong to the speech writters and not the politician! Grow -up and quit playing games and move on to the real issues.
Kathy–40 yr old mother of 3 in Texas

I wonder how much plagerism was used to get his degrees’s?

2008: Hillary Clinton, referring to Obama: “you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.”
1985: Mario Cuomo, at Yale University
“you campaign, in poetry, you govern in prose”
This can be confirmed in Bartlett’s Quotations.

I am shocked at the hypocrisy of all of you “genuine” Obama critics…you claim to be real people with real criticisms, but more often than not I see posts of nearly identical content from supposedly real, different people again and again from comment page to comment page. Plagiarism indeed…tsk, tsk…such temerity.

How many times have you used “words” spoken by others to make your point of view “perfectly clear!”
I’m sorry the Clinton’s are acting like immature children – always pointing the finger at others and making impossible promises just to become the first ever husband and then wife elected presidents. They are making Americans look foolish and degrading our world immage.
Are they that predigous that they both have no choice but to stoop so very low?
If she is elected, I feel sorry for our country.

Oh my gosh. I just read that Ronald Reagan actually was saying the words Peggy Noonan wrote for him. I’m so disappointed, because Hillary Clinton cited him as one of her favorite presidents on her campaign website.
I just can’t support anyone who favors a word thief like that.

PalatinePup – that’s because a good chunk of the Clinton supporting posts are most likely written by campaign staffers, pretending to be multiple people.
Watch how the themes of the posts come in waves.
And while most blogs don’t spend a lot of time trying to verify who is who, one did – Blue Hampshire – and it found seven userIDs that all tracked back to a single computer registered to the Clinton campaign.
Maybe all the campaigns do this, but Clinton’s is the only one to be caught.

I am very disturbed by the lack of common sense used in some of these posts. We all know these are politicians, they don’t write their speeches, nor create their on policies and programs. That is why they have staff. Do you think CEO’s come up with new products or programs for their companies? It is usually some hardworking individual like you or me. These people are the ones out front. If you plan on voting, try to use common sense. Otherwise stay home.

Paul-Should I have cited my cliche used in above post? ;)

Ok I think this FINALLY shows what obama is all about. FINALLY he is truly exposed for what he truly believes in. SOMEONE else’s words. He’s all talk and now we find out that the ALL TALK isn’t even “his” talk. Lame…Lame…obama. GO HILLARY~!

It’s a non-issue. Hillary

Ok, like I really care that any of these candidates cited, stole, referenced, or even commented on someone elses speech. Big Deal! Some of you people are just amazing. It does not matter which one of them gets the DNC nomination, they will both go in and try to do the best they can, and then as you should be aware, the political machine will take affect and you all will be saying to the “President” you promised us this, and now you can’t deliver. I guess the chance of these two running on the same ticket is out of the question, due to the animosity that is stirred up by the media, and themselves.
Just because you like a certain candidate for what they say, does not mean that that candiate is best for the country. Try to have more of an open mind when it comes to these politics. NOne of them write their own speeches, hell, the President has a writer for all his speeches too. So the point is mute!

Is this the ONLY thing you all have on Obama??? Joe from morning Joe said that politicians borrow lines ALL THE TIME!!! This guy is a Republican who was a dang good senator. People, stick with the issues!!!!

The common theme between Deval Patrick’s and Obama’s campaign is John Walsh, John was credited for coming up with the inspirational we can change campaign for Deval Partick….it worked people in MS bought it and are now may be regretting it… rest of America better wake up and start questioning Obama’s quest to bring change to America… Ask your self is it Obama talking or JFK, MLK or Ronald Reagan

Obama has gone on record that he writes most of his own speeches. Keep in mind he’s doing this in a profession in which most politicians have most of their speeches written for them.
One of the obvious effects of Obama crafting most of his speeches is that he can often be seen grasping for words. Unlike Clinton who offers impossibly perfect speeches and obviously pre-arranged answers to debate questions, Obama is giving us a view into who he is as a person.
If Obama sometimes relies on speech writers, he is perfectly within the bound of his profession to do so. Ask Clinton how often she depends on the words of her speech writers. We don’t know if she’ll tell us the truth, but perfectly timed smiles and seamless sentence constructions give you a clue. Would the Hillary behind the pre-arranged presentation please come out and say, “Hi.” We want to know who you really are inside there.
In the same way that Clinton is not plagiarizing when she spouts the words of her official speech writers, Obama was not plagiarizing when he used the words of his un-official speech editor who is his friend and campaign supporter.

The environment in politics in this country, and the individuals who make their living in said environment, are pretentious and comical at best. A politician is a politician is a politician. For decades, campaigning candidates have done exactly what Obama did, including Hillary, without all of the negative attention. Why? Because in and of itself, it is relatively insignificant. It is sad to see Mrs. Clinton resort to such “desperate” tactics AGAIN. Nevertheless, it is understandable considering she is in a “desperate” situation. She was supposed to be the hands-down nominee for the Democratic Party, but now that she faces a serious challenge to her legacy she and her campaign are pulling out the stops and resorting to dirty and petty poli-tac-tics. And in all fairness, Obama’s camp responded just as pettily. When will this ever end? Is this the best the American people can hope for? More of the same old crap from politicians. God help us.

I don’t know what world you people live in but campaigns have always been nasty. Hello that’s what they’re supposed to be. You people probably don’t have any experience in voting. In 1980 Bush # 1 called Ronald Reagan’s Economic plan voodoo economics and yet he ended up being his vice president. Get over it that’s what this is all about.

It is very disappointed. Obama cheated people with his fake rhetoric. He made people believing that they are his own words. What is a shame? It gave me no doubt that voting for Hillary is the right thing.

vote for hillary is a vote for obama vs versa. dem. in all honesty we should have both clintod could be foreign affairs and obama domestic. too far ahead of my time

I don’t suppose anyone posting here would care to do just a teeny bit of personal research on this matter, now would we? Search on Deval’s name, you will eventually find a video interview with him in which he states that he has known Barack for 15 years, they share campaign ideas, he shared these particular words with Barack, and he [Deval] suggested that he [Barack] use them.
This sort of attack campaign strategy is for the benefit of the uninformed. It is shameless, and an insult to voters.

Obama is a manipulator! Thank goodness, not all Americans fall for his elusive dreams.

I was saddened to watch Diane Sawyer’s interview with Deval this morning. I know she’s on a morning news magazine, but I had imagined she still had some journalistic integrity until today. The story about the Barack plagerism was totally one-sided, with not a single comment about all the times Clinton has borrowed others’ tag lines, e.g. Edwards’ reference to Blockbuster. It appeared as if Sawyer is working for the Clinton campaign, which is all very well, except NOT while she’s pretending to be a non-partisan journalist. Her refusal to accept Deval’s position together with her failure to present an opposing point of view was simply shameless. Diane–you’ve been rocked!!!

Obama shared campaign ideas with the others. The question is if he is really good or the others are good? He used his rhetoric to win the votes, to make people believe in him. He uses his words to inspire people. I would be very disappointed if Hillary used someone else healthcare plan as her own without crediting. Using someone else works without quoting and commenting is cheating, dishonor. Especially, it is what making up of a person character.

when I went to school plagiarism meant to take credit for someone else’s work as if it was your own. I also checked the dictionary right before I started to write to make sure the meaing hadn’t changed, and it hasn’t! I heard the speech and didn’t hear Barak Obama claim these were his own words. So I fail to see how he plagiarized. the governor of Massachussettes himself acknowledged he was friends with Obama and he didn’t mind him using his words, which amounted to “…just words…” according to the governor’s interview this morning on Good Morning America. I think the Clinton campaign needs to stop focusing so much on what he says, and start focusing on what he is doing: mainly unifying, encouraging, and inspiring the people that real change is possible! That we don’t have to settle for politics as usual, which is what we will get with the Clintons, if THEY are elected.

The big deal with Obama borrowing words is that his whole campaign is about words and they inspire people. Now you find you that those words are words of another politican. All politicans do that. But Obama was supposed to be different. Now, maybe one has to wonder if that is so true.

Words did not make up Hillary’s character. But, it did make up Obama’s character. That is the difference and it is huge.

When left to his own devices, Obama hesitates, stutters, talks in circles and numerous times has to go back and “explain what I meant”. FRAUD. I was impressed with him at the 2004 convention, but I am so disillusioned by him now. I cannot get over his arrogance either- it has all gone to his head. And I also am concerned about his cocaine use “on the road to becoming a junkie” shows me an addictive destructive tendency and character weakness not to mention POOR JUDGMENT. Good we get rid of an alcoholic and replace him with a junkie.

No candidate writes their own speeches -they have speech writers. This is politics. Yes, Obama should have given credit to Patrick but in the end, what does that matter? It is a speech. Let’s talk about healthcare, Iraq, education reform. This is what is important. Obama’s rhetoric should not be the focal point of his whole campaign, go watch a debate! Read up on policices. And to say that this is a morally wrong act only goes back to the fact that almost all speeches are written by someone behind the scenes. This isn’t necessarily a good thing, but it happens nevertheless. So why scrutinize Obama for something that happens throughout all of politics?

Obama is offering democrats no experience, no great words that are his own, and no plans for change… Hillary is a proven leader, she will deliver a Universal Health plan which she was the first to champion and she will turn around the deficit economy and work for peace.
Hillary is also tough enough to take McCains blows and still win the Presidency. The Jr. Senator’s quest for the Presidency is over because he’s all hot air.
The things he has said that he’s inspirational — Not true — the great men he quotes were inspirational. He says he represents the new but regurgitates great messages that were already said. If he was a truly great leader he’s make new speeches that other’s could quote with honesty and integrity. He’s not even smart enough to know this would come back to haunt him.
If Clinton faces McCain she is smart enough, and has enough experience and is tough enough to win. Obama is toast and no way can he win in a race against McCain. Now he’s whining she’s being unfair to piint out that Obama delivers words like a leader, but is really saying nothing that is new or his own. He’s a follower, that’s why? This guy is toast. We need a true leader — Hillary Clinton — to face McCain and win./

Plagiarism disassembled Sen. Biden’s candidacy…..The press and the media failure to take serious note of Obama’s trespasses including this current one shows a predilection to promote the Sen. from Illinois’ candidacy…. whatever happened to a fair unbiased media.
I will go to church for a sermon……. it won’t solve any problems, but it will make me feel good.

Do we learn from one another?Is it not our influences from other’s that help shape us into what we are today? Some of you folks that write on this blog are pathetic.Mostly you Clinton supporters.I would not support her mainly because she does not know how to stand on her own two feet.We see her because she is Bill Clintons wife.Period.You support her because you beleive what she SAYS she will do.This woman does not impress me at all. If you want her …fine. if you don’t like Obama fine. Don’t vote for him. Just shut up with all the negativity.You did not have all this stuff to say about him until it became a headline talking point.Support her and shut up about him.

The Clinton Campaign Just Now…
February 18, 2008 11:33 AM
In a conference call just now the Clinton campaign would not guarantee that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, has never used someone else’s rhetoric without crediting them.
I asked Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson and Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass, if they could assure the public that neither Clinton nor McGovern has ever done what Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, did when he used the rhetoric of Gov. Deval Patrick without footnoting him.
They would not.
In fact, Wolfson seemed to say it wouldn’t be as big a deal if it were discovered that Clinton had “lifted” such language.
“Sen. Clinton is not running on the strength of her rhetoric,” Wolfson said.
Hmmmm.
- jpt

Obama is not a liar or a cheater. Who cares he used someone else’s speech? He just looks silly like a high school kid running for class president. He never takes responsibility for his actions. I hope all the bone heads who support him will wake up from their trance and see what a pathetic man he is.

Some winner win by plagerism???
Vote yes or no do you favor Plagerism allowed for Obama??
To be allowed to run for President, just how many times has he and his wife done this??

finally, the tarnish is revealed! The man is a hoax!

Do Democrats want to win or is this all about Obaba? He’s an inexperienced guy, who had a very successful campaign but does not have the experience or talent — at least to date to win against McCain.
Hillary has an imperfect record of accomplishments as all great leaders do but her accomplishments for health, education, human rights and the economy are solid. She will work for peace.
Obama’s game is over. He made a strong effort for someone of so little experience but can not win against McCain. Hillary can win, if we chose Hillary, she will be the next President. A vote for Obama is a vote for McCain.

no his game is not over

Republicans plagiarize too. John McCain plagiarized Obama’s ‘get fired up’. Recently, John McCain plagiarized Ronald Reagan by telling one of the other candidates “You’re no Ronald Reagan” (when Reagan told Mondale “you’re no Jack Kennedy”.

If you have the author’s permission, approximating or copying a couple of phrases from a speech is not illegal or immoral. Especially when it comes to =political= speech writing. Politicians rarely write their own speeches and almost never give credit to their speech writers. But I assume most people understand this. This seems like a convenient opportunity for some folks to bash a campaign they never trusted in the first place.
It takes more than a speech to inspire people — or to galvanize a movement. If all one needed was a good speech writer (or smart friends to borrow phrases from) Hillary Clinton and John McCain would both be much more popular.

People believed in Obama that he can unite this country and people around the world. But it is obviously that he could not unite Hillary’s supporters to go behind him and the red states still being red states. Is he failing or he just inflated the word? He gave people the impression that Washington needs to be changed to make his plans to work. But, so far all his plans that he is talking abut did not require he change of Washington and he has not mentioned about it. Is there much of the need to change Washington? Or he is inflating the word “change”? Obama has not talked about how he would change Washington and how it will effect his plans.

Whether or not Obama plagerized Parick’s words is not the issue. The issue is that his entire campaign is almost IDENTICAL to that of Patrick: Same Manager: Axelrod, Same profile: both black, from South side of Chicgo, both outstanding Harvard law School Graduates. Both charismatic and brilliant orators/campaigners. Both used words like “Hope”, “Change”, Not Politics as Usual” “Reaching accross Party Lines”,”Uniting”etc.. The Obama campaign slogan is even identical to Deval’s: “Yes We Can”..
And Deval had the same effect on people. We were carried away with the notion of a new kind of leader.
Well, it was all WORDS. Nothing has changed. Its Politics as usual, and Patrick has achieved little besides pushing very aggressively for the development of casinos in Massachusetts.
That is not to say Obama will be a Patrick in a larger context, but for me it raises serious questions.
Its clear that this is a blueprint from Axekrod.The the Axelrod script in the theater of Electability.
One has to wonder about the “truth” and perhaps its time to ask: “Who IS Barak Obama anyway and why should he be President?”

My neighbor took a class from Obama at the Univ of Chicago Law School. He said he was the most brilliant legal analyst in the law school, AND by far, the most inspiring professor. His first book was written before he was famous. No ghost writer (unlike most politicans). Just a totally brilliant mind, on a par with Churchill.

Carlos
I agree with you 100 percent ,I will also go republican too if Obama win the nomination.Imagin Obama being the President and can’t even come up with his own ideas we’re all going to be in trouble.

Both candidates have been campaigning for a long time. I see no problem or issue with Obama or Hilary using excerpts from another’s speech if it fits the moment. I do agree that this country needs change but with change comes sacrifice from the American people. Obama inspires people to want to change for the better beliving that nothing is impossible. With inspiration comes hope, with inspiration comes action. They say Obama is only about words. Well, it will be these words that will inspire a nation to become more involve in changing itself. It worked for JFK and MLK and it will work with Obama. Obama transcends America and I think that this will be important in improving the US economy and the global economy.

Well said, Rudolph!

The clinton campaign is getting desperate. They should be careful, their hypocracy is showing.

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Why do you people care about this BS?
At this point in the game, Obama is starting to come out on top. Naturally, his opponents are going to start hitting him where it hurts. That means, they(being the Clinton and McCain camps) are going to start trying to hit him on his inexperience(which I don’t see a problem with seeing as how the longer these guys are in DC the more they become a part of the institution) and they are going to try and destroy his credibility. So you have to look at this in two ways: one, is his lack of “Washington” experience really a detriment to him as a Presidential Candidate; and two, does this trumped up Plagarism charge destroy his credibility. On point one, I argue that given his experience prior to his election to the US Senate, he still has plenty of experience(and MUCH less connection to Lobbyists than his two Opponents. Did you know Hillary has taken more money from Pharmaceutical Lobbyists than any other Democrat?)to work from. Not to mention,I’m pretty sure he’s older than Bill Clinton was when he was elected. And on the second point, He did NOT steal a speech from Gov. Patrick. Saying he did shows you didn’t really understand what you read in this article. Furthermore, it is a moot point because it doesn’t show any “real” underhandedness at all. Did he do an injustice to Gov. Patrick? No, in fact Patrick and him are buddies. They bounce ideas off of eachother. This is a political move made by the Clintons to try and turn off some Obama Supporters because his momentum is pretty much owning Hillary. 10 elections in a row have gone to Obama, and the Clintons and their supporters(because not all of it is directly stemming from just Hillary and Bill) need whatever they can get to slow that momentum down. In short, welcome to the game of political rhetoric. But if you’re gonna get pissed about something, look at the candidates issues. Because it seems to me if it falls down to credibility, Hillary has alot more skeletons in her closet than the Grass Roots Obama Campaign.

I lost respect for Obama when he brushed aside those charges of plagiarism as simply unimportant because that says a lot of the man. Plagiarism is theft. Any student knows that. Authors fight against plagiarism and their associations stress ethics and standards against it. So I don’t know what is more disturbing – that a presidencial candidate is too stupid to quote a source or that it doesn’t matter to him even if it is a theft, making his ethics suspect. Lets inspire our children to use the “Obama defense” when they get in trouble in college with charges of plagiarism. Now they can say they borrowed the paper from a friend but he gave them permission. But I have a feeling that’s not going to fly because we demand more of a children than a presidencial candidate. Unbelievable!
I know Obama walks on water. I know he is winning the popularity vote. Women scream and faint in his presence. They scream, “I love you” as if he were a rockstar, but even if Oprah offers a car, I need some standards and ethics from a president. I wish Obama would have had the humility to apologize or just say that it was wrong and move on. But he didn’t. And I’m sorry, but that is very wrong. I’m so dissapointed.

The demo’s Clinton and Ombama are talking about seriously doing damage to NAFTA re Canada and Mexico. Perhaps we need to remind them that the second highest supplier of OIL to the USA is Canada, Canada is fighting with great losses with the USA in AFN, and Canada has an abundant supply of natural resources including water and lumber. Duties and protectionism work both ways to increase gas prices, goods in the stores, etc. for everyone. This campaign promise reeks of shallow thinking. Think again!