federal documents, like stealing FBI files, like selling US secrets,
DOES NOT APPLY to Democrats.
Posted on 02/18/2008 4:27:09 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
The charismatic, brilliant, inspiring black politician came to the stage to address the latest attack from his white female opponent.
"Her dismissive point, and I hear it a lot from her staff, is all I have to offer is words," he said. "Just words.
"'We holds these truths to be self-evident,'" he continued as the crowd began to cheer and applaud, "'that all men are created equal' -- just words. Just words."
The applause increased.
"'We have nothing to fear but fear itself,'" the pol said. "Just words. 'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.' Just words,'" he said, switching effortlessly from our Founding Fathers to FDR to JFK.
And then, the piece de resistance: "'I have a dream' -- just words," he said.
Barack Obama rebutting Hillary Clinton circa 2008?
Nope. Deval Patrick, ultimately successful Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, responding to then-Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey in October 2006.
Of course, if you mistook the speech for one from Obama, you can be forgiven -- just this weekend Obama said something quite similar.
"Don't tell me words don't matter," Obama said to Wisconsin Democrats. "'I have a dream' -- just words. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' -- just words. 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' - just words. Just speeches."
Watch Patrick HERE and Obama HERE.
Since last year, observers have been noting that rhetorical similarities between the two candidates with vaguely similar biographies and campaign pitches -- who also share political guru David Axelrod.
"It's a handoff," Axelrod explains in an email. "They're friends and allies. They share a view of politics and often riff off of each other."
Some, including the New York Observer noted that Obama's recent adoption of the "Yes, we can," slogan echoed Patrick's use of it.
"Yes we can reuse slogans," quipped Ben Smith at Politico, noting that a Patrick TV ad from 2006 uses the slogan -- as does an Obama state senate ad from 2004.
And Axelrod says"Yes we can" was Obama's campaign slogan in 2004. (So Obama echoed Patrick who echoed Obama.)
Of course, all of it is an English pinch of the slogan Si Se Puede from the United Farm Workers from 1972!
Common language and themes are not unheard of in politics, though it can also be controversial. A Boston Globe story from almost a year ago looks at the sharing that has gone on between Obama and Patrick, who are friends. What do you think?
- jpt
UPDATE: The Obama campaign has issued a statement from Gov. Patrick: “Sen. Obama and I are long-time friends and allies. We often share ideas about politics, policy and language. The argument in question, on the value of words in the public square, is one about which he and I have spoken frequently before. Given the recent attacks from Sen. Clinton, I applaud him responding in just the way he did.”
It does seem to me that this issue may also be one between Obama and his supporters, not just Obama and Patrick. Thousands, if not millions, of Americans are inspired by Obama's words. They do not think they are "just words." But many of them also likely think they are at least somewhat original.
Does every story about Obama and Clinton have to mention that he is black and she is white? I think everybody gets that by now.
As Massachusetts goes, so goes the country. Well, that’s just great. /sarc
Key aide to Patrick accused of sex assault (Look at this perv Democrat)
Go figure :)
“’Ask not what your country can do for you”
Ask if you have a favorite position and what kind of lube.
“Ein Volk. Ein Fuehrer. Ein Reich.” - just words.
"...because the future is ahead of us, and the past has come before us, and the future is yet to come."
He’s only a plagiarist if he wrote it. Which I doubt. In any case, the guy’s a freaking socialist. Who cares if he’s a plagiarist to boot? :)
Who knows, maybe Obama’s camp started the plagiarism thing in order to change the subject from the gay-sex-and-drugs-in-the-limo-thing...
Although there seems to be some sort of homosexual intrigue with both Obama and Patrick, with this Axelrod guy in the middle (as their writer?) (Gad!) there's also a direct link between them that dates back to Field, the founding publisher of the Chicago Sun, Stalin, the KGB, etc., etc.
You dig into Axelrod's family background just a little and you find a vast treasuretrove of well-known lefties, fellow-travelers, Stalinists, marginal leftwing magazines ~ e.g. I.F.Stone, The Nation, etc., adnauseum ad infinitum. (Gad! ~ Again!).
The weak link is that Deval Patrick's top assistant undertook a homosexual rape on a 15 year old boy in Florida, and it all came undone.
Just think of the tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars the Commies invested in these two, and there it goes ~ just like with Billzo, for a few moments of sex.
What was that term the Pope used when describing a competing faith ~ “mental autoeroticism.” ~ obviously the Commies forgot the “mental” part to get caught by the shorthairs so easily and quickly.
And I don't mean the folks we thought were Commies ~ you have actual KGB agents involved.
Words only have power if they are followed by action.
If Oblama is as ineffectual as Devoid Patrick, he will accomplish little while his pie-eyed sycophants in the press and his cult of personality fanatics in the general population will swoon over his every utterance.
The Left will finally get the Kennedy fix they so desperately wanted, though the real JFK would have had nothing to do with their ideas or their goals. Despite his moral decadence, JFK was, in action, more conservative than John McCain.
In the meantime, not a lot will get done.
The big danger is, will the staff appointed by Empty Suit Obama have the stones to act on national security issues and keep the Mahometan murderers from regaining enough steam to destroy one or more large cities. And will they respond in kind if we are attacked again?
Those are the big questions.
so if we want to know what Obama is going to think, say, propose, we should check what Deval has been up to? hardly an American original then, is he?
That said, the 'Rats are antithetical to capitalism. Believe me, it shows :)
Oh, yeah, and dope ~ nothing like smack to make it all go better.
We can all envision these guys sitting around in a crash pad, leaning on large pillows, incense pots billowing smoke, and while they pass around the hookah, someone's over in the corner sitting at a table, razor blade in hand, laying out the cocaine ...... in the meantime a ditzy blond, taking a break, is commenting on how Lenin applied the principles of ethnocentric dispensationalism to the critical need of the peasants for modern toilet facilities while simultaneously opening up a new Ford tractor factor.
Oh, yeah! It's them!
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