Same Old Song: Obama Keeps On Recycling Other People's Words And Calling It "Change"
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Same Old Song: Obama Keeps On Recycling Other People's Words And Calling It "Change"
Sort by Red State (Free subscription) - 10/09/2008
Nothing New Under The Sun Back in February, Barack Obama sounded a familiar note in defending himself against charges that his campaign was "just words" - in fact, a note taken almost verbatim from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, also a client of David Axelrod: Patrick eventually tried to help by explaining that he had offered up his words to Obama to use . In June , Obama tried a different inspiration...
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Why Obama Is Jay-Z and Hillary Is Cam'ron
Sort by The Plank (Free subscription) - 19/02/2008
Guest poster Adam Leon, co-proprietor of the popular Philly/NYC music blog BadmintonStamps , offers his take on the recent controversey over Barack Obama's alleged plagiarism. Hillary Clinton's plagiarism ploy brings to mind the classic beef between rappers Cam'ron and Jay-Z. In 2006, Cam'ron released several dis tracks aimed at his former labelmate, the generally unimpeachable Jay-Z. The fracas stemmed...
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Discerning or Desperate? Clinton Accuses Obama of ‘Plagiarism’
Sort by Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) - 19/02/2008
Deval Patrick: "This guy's good!" Photo: Getty Images Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spent Presidents' Day weekend bickering. Clinton's campaign called out Obama for “plagiarizing” Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick in one of his recent speeches ; Obama admits he should have credited Patrick but says that the two are good friends who often discuss speech-making ideas (Patrick has come out in Obama’s...
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Wolfson and McGovern: Obama Copies Other People's Homework
Sort by The New York Observer (Free subscription) - 19/02/2008
On a Clinton campaign conference call with reporters this morning, Howard Wolfson and Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts presented two events as part of the same pattern: the Obama campaign's apparent equivocating on a promise to take public financing in a general election against John McCain ( whether or not what he said constitutes a pledge is disputed ) and the emergence of video evidence...
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Just Words
Sort by Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) - 19/02/2008
Jonathan V. Last reports from Wisconsin: [T]he Founders Day event also featured a new addition meant to counter the Clinton charge that it takes more than just words to be president. As rebuttal, Obama thundered, "'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 ." It's a powerful...
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'Bidenizing' Obama, health care -- and whopper of a laughfest at WND [Pam's House Blend - Front Page]
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I saw reports this AM on CNN about Clinton campaign charges that Barack Obama lifted language from another person's speech today, specifically Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, who delivered a speech in 2006 when running for office that is similar in nature to one Obama gave. ( WaPo ): "Sen. Obama is running on the strength of his rhetoric, and the strength of his promises. So I think it's relevant...
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Obama Plagiarizes Speech
Sort by PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) - 18/02/2008
Barack Obama has been criticized for plagiarizing a speech during a campaign stop this past weekend and not being upfront about it. The similarities between the Democratic presidential hopeful and a speech made by by Deval Patrick, the current Democratic governor of Massachusetts, back in October 2006 are striking. Barack blatantly copied several lines and linguistic speech [...]
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Barack Obama apes Deval Patrick
Sort by The Shotgun (Free subscription) - 04/10/2008
These split-screen videos showing politicians reciting sentences lifted whole cloth from another politician are fun. Here's Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's "just words" speech, alongside Barack Obama's.
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Now Obama Lies In Spanish
Sort by Hyscience (Free subscription) - 18/09/2008
Uh-bama didn't quite make it by ABC's fact checkers . Words? Just words? Yes, just words to Obama, as in throw them out and "hope" they stick and the truth be damned. And while we're on the topic of words, remember Uh-bama's "Words, just words, comments in his Wisconsin speech on 2/17/08? Well, it turns out that they were "words" - just not his words: Some might call this plagiarism.
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‘Bidenizing’ Obama, health care — and whopper of a laughfest at WND
Sort by Pandagon (Free subscription) - 19/02/2008
As you know, the Clinton campaign has charged that Barack Obama lifted whole chunks of another person's speech, specifically specifically Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, who delivered a speech in 2006 when running for office that is similar in nature to one Obama gave. (WaPo): “Sen. Obama is running on the strength of his rhetoric, and the [...]
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POLITICS: Same Old Song
Sort by Baseball Crank (Free subscription) - 11/09/2008
Back in February, Barack Obama sounded a familiar note in defending himself against charges that his campaign was "just words" - in fact, a note taken almost verbatim from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, also a client of David Axelrod: Patrick eventually tried to help by explaining that he had offered up his words to Obama to use . In June , Obama tried a different inspiration on for size, swiping...
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More of the Same
Sort by GOP (Free subscription) - 18/02/2008
Recent lines articulated by Barack Obama have raised a few eyebrows when compared to some used not so long ago by Massachusetts's Governor Deval Patrick—especially, it seems among the members of Team Clinton . As a presidential candidate with very little experience on record, Obama is largely relying on his gift for lofty, inspiring rhetoric—which now appears to be something less than innate, or self-developed....
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HUBdate: Just Words
Sort by blogHillary (Free subscription) - 19/02/2008
If You Watch One Thing Today : “Obama lifts quotes from Deval Patrick” ... "Loan crisis hits Obama" ... "Free speech: For the taking" ... "Obama: Borrowing lines not a big deal." Watch . If You Read One Thing Today : “Party superdelegates deserve vote of confidence,” Al Hunt's Bloomberg column. Read more . Previewing Today : Hillary holds a "Solutions for America" economic roundtable in Parma and a...
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Barack Obama: Great Orator… of Other’s People’s Thoughts
Sort by Texas Rainmaker (Free subscription) - 08/09/2008
We’ve heard all about Barack Obama’s “gift” in giving good speeches. The MSM has compared him to Lincoln, Roosevelt, JFK and even Jesus. He’s made so-called journalists cry and dozens of women faint at just hearing his voice… We also heard the MSM undermining Sarah Palin’s wonderful speech at the RNCC by reminding viewers [...]
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What He Said (On The Media: Friday, 22 February 2008)
Sort by On The Media (Free subscription) - 22/02/2008
In the windy realm of political oratory, boosting words or cadence or even whole sentiments is nothing new . Did it stick, then, when the Clinton campaign invoked the P-word after Obama borrowed a few sentences from Gov. Duval Patrick? Copy that !
