Obama Plagiarism?

The Clinton campaign launched a vicious accusation that Obama has plagiarized numerous times in recent speeches, stealing quotes word for word from Deval Patrick.

It is completely true that Obama took parts of Patrick’s speech word for word and here is the proof:

Unfortunately for Hillary, this comes across as a last ditch effort to take Obama down with any dirt she can possibly dig up. While it is true that much of Obama’s momentum could be attributed to his motivational speeches and rhetoric of change, the plagiarism claim won’t do much to derail the seemingly inevitable Obama Democratic nomination.

When asked about the plagiarism, Obama admits that he did indeed borrow these lines from Deval Patrick and that he should have Patrick as the original source. However, Patrick is a supporter and friend of Obama and likely (as Obama claims) suggested he may want to borrow a few motivational lines that seemed to “work”.

While Obama probably won’t lose the Democratic nomination because of this controversy, it is something that the McCain team is looking at with a magnifying glass. If Obama does indeed face off against McCain for the presidency, we’re guessing this issue will “resurface” with a little help from Johnny boy.

By the way… where the heck is Deval Patrick in all of this? Don’t you think he could clear this whole thing up pretty darn quickly if he gave his side of the story? Why isn’t anyone asking the source directly? That’s the only thing that seems fishy about this… are they trying to coordinate a “company line” with the Obama team?

Sidenote: For being such a great speaker, we don’t think Obama’s “plagiarized” versions were nearly as good as Deval Patrick’s originals. Oh well…

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