Just What The Clinton Campaign Wanted
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Hillary Clinton | Joe Biden Redux — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
My, what a lovely distraction. Of course, it really isn't the most earth-shattering news that politicians riff off of one another when they make speeches, but the Clinton campaign might actually be able to use this to turn away the electorate's attention from Hillary Clinton's failures on the stump and towards possible plagiarism on the part of Barack Obama. The story itself is not the world's biggest deal and I find it bizarre to contemplate that it might last longer than a single news cycle. But given how well Obama is doing currently, it stands to reason that some members of the media might want to bring him down a peg, while at the same time writing something of a compelling comeback story for Hillary Clinton.
This is going to be nothing short of bizarre. And the most bizarre thing about it, of course, is that even the people who denounce the Clintons for bringing this tendentious issue up won't be able to turn away from it.
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You have to wonder sometimes, the level of stupidity that inhabits the main stream media. Let's see if I get this right: Obama is using some verbiage spoken by one Deval Patrick, Governor of MA (of which I am an inhabitant), referring to lines from Franklin D, JFK, and MLK, and the Clintons are screaming plagiarism? Worse yet, it's been non-stop on every news program I've seen or listened to in the last 24 hours. So we've reached the point in our political madness that if anyone, anywhere, makes any reference to anything spoken in the last half-century, if you don't properly credit whomever it was that may have spoken the words, it's plagiarism (according to the moral compass of our society, HRC). Lord, please safe us from ourselves.
Hope this isn't too much off topic since I think this too deals with Mr. Obama. After hearing some news this morning on a local talk show, I became curious if what the host was saying could be true. Google really surprised me as I found what she was saying to be highly documented. Pictures, for the most part, usually do not lie. So the question is, why is this not covered more in the news? I am not aware of the general consensus of the accuracy of these sites, but none the less, surely this should raise some eyebrows at a minimum.
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Deval Patrick, being one of Obama's speechwriters, has already denounced the Clinton attack. (Wash Times note in today's paper.)
It takes a lot of nerve for the Clintons to start this crap. I've already seen news people finding rip-offs in her speeches. Wolfson and Lanny Davis admit that she has taken things from other speeches, but it doesn't matter because she isn't running on her speaking ability. So I guess the logic is - if you use other people's material ineffectively it doesn't count. Only in Clinton land could this make sense. And this from the woman who wouldn't acknowledge her ghost writer on "It Takes a Village" I forgot how much fun the Clintons are to have around again.