Posted on 02/19/2008 2:04:57 PM PST by Nony
This is getting serious! He got caught again and it's even worse this time. VIDEO included.
Um, don’t they have the same speech writers?
How do you expect an empty suit to come up with original material?
Can this wait until after the primaries?
It is only plagiarism if Obama uses those words. If Hillary Clinton had used it (and she might!) it would be perfectly okay.
Don’t make me watch the video. What did he say?
If it involves Deval Patrick (can’t watch video at work) then Obama’s got some cover since he told the Boston newpaper several months ago that he and Patrick swap lines.
Frankly my dear, who gives a HOOT?
Next we will hear: “ask not what your country can do for you...etc” and “Four score and seven years ago,”
I think it is big news... The very lines that are getting people motivatated about a man are not his own and have been used in previous campaigns. Who is then is Barack Obama?
You called it. The video has Patrick and Obama on a split screen delivering the same line 15 months apart.
It’s news, but if a guy tells a newspaper in advance that he and another politician share lines, it seems kind of lame to me, but not as scandalous as if he were using some secret source without consent and without telling anyone.
As if Hillary has ever had an original thought?
Especially in this case the message is so personal: I am not asking you to take a chance on me, I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.
Obama is a gown man, how come he can't take a chance on his own aspirations by using his own words??
It may not technically be “plagiarism” ... but it is embarrassing for the Great Annointed Orator.
Personally, I find Obama’s speeches vapid and tiresome ... I don’t understand the fuss over him.
All the really good speeches have already been given.
What's a guy to do?
The line is dumb. If one did what they asked then one would not need them.
They both have teh same master, from the Saul Alinsky School of Campaigns and Engineered Consensus.
It’s inevitable that they’d cover the same ground.
It cuts down on expenses, don’t ya know.
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