Comments on: Plagiarist Clinton Accuses Obama of Plagiarism

By: Clinton Defeated and Booed - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:55:01 +0000

[...] Clinton tried to get in a number of jabs but the most memorable was over the bogus charges of plagiarism which she has tried to raise against Obama. Clinton got booed for her prepared line, “change you can Xerox” (video below). [...]

By: A Speech Writer’s Take On The Plagiarism Flap - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:18:10 +0000

[...] Plagiarist Clinton Accuses Obama of Plagiarism [...]

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:42:41 +0000

Kfry,

It is Clinton who has been making these attacks so tell them to call off the dogs. I love the way that Clinton runs a dirty campaign and then her supporters get upset when we debunk all her dishonest attacks.

As for pure campaigns–Obama vowed not to engage in the type of distortion the Clinton campaign is, and he has kept his word.

Regarding your comparisons of the candidates, Obama has far more experience than Clinton and has demonstrated far greater mastery of the issues and judgment. In contrast, Clinton has repeatedly shown that she is not ethically fit to be president, and has shown remarkably poor judgment on the issues.

By: kfry

kfry — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:14:10 +0000

We’re talking politics here, people. Nobody’s running a pure campaign, including Obama. I’m calling for a full blown cease fire among liberals! Frankly, when you take aim at Hillary, you’re taking aim at ME. Look, I spent the weekend in a red county in the middle of blue state Minnesota, at the 29th annual Eel Pout festival on Leech Lake in Cass County, and met the people who think Hillary is “divisive.” One of the highlights of this supposedly family friendly fest in the middle of a family values county was the ice house decoration contest. Turns out the decorations were mostly vulgar. Call it misogyny on ice. Of course Hillary is divisive in this culture. She’d take those folks around back, wash their mouths out with soap, give ‘em a whupping they wouldn’t soon forget, and make ‘em put in service hours at the local homeless shelter. I blogged a little about this today. And Susan Milligan over at the Boston Globe has a great (sad) article about the steep hill ANY woman would have to climb to get elected today. I pulled the lever for Hillary because I think she’s ready for the job. I’ll vote for Obama when he gets the nod but, for real, if he was a woman – given his experience, mastery of the issues, etc. – nobody’d be taking him seriously. And that just sort of ticks me off.

Call off the dogs.

http://reclaimingthefword.com

By: annevilla

annevilla — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:01:45 +0000

Clinton: Firing Blanks and (Hopefully Soon) ‘Ready to Go’

I truly believe that history involving all of us – We the People – is about to be made: I believe in Barack Obama. Hillary is mostly involved with herself; Barack is a Uniter, who wants to empower us all.

This latest Clinton ploy, nit-picking at the supposed ‘plagiarism of Obama’s close friend’s speech’ ploy – a friend who couldn’t care less if Obama borrows his words or not! – is merely another sign of how extremely desperate the Clintons have become.

And trying to twist Michelle’s SENTENCE about being proud of her country for the first time in her adult life is merely an indication of how wildly successful Michelle has been: despite never even using a note card during her countless fantastic speeches, they never had a chance to lay a finger on her before, so now they pounce, or at least try to pounce, on the fact that Michelle said she never had a chance in her adult life to be proud of her country’s participation in the political process. And this charge coming from the Clinton campaign that’s always hawking that the Obama campaign deals in fluff, not substance?: as a Democrat, I feel it’s downright embarrassing; as an American it’s doubly embarrassing when you remember that the whole world is watching…

This brilliant “OBAMA PORTRAIT MUSIC VIDEO” has been used all across the country at house parties and fundraisers – hope you enjoy it, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCPwbozpIzM

WE ARE THE CHANGE WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

WE CAN – AND WE WILL

By: jules35

jules35 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:25:41 +0000

If this is plagiarism, then Hillary did it too.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 11, 2008

“Indeed, Mrs. Clinton made some of the same arguments Sunday in New Hampshire when she defended her earnest speaking style by saying, in an indirect reference to Mr. Obama, “you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.”

That particular political maxim was first uttered in a 1985 speech at Yale University– by [former New York governor Mario] Cuomo.

“She didn’t attribute it to me, although it’s in Bartlett’s Quotations and they did,” the former governor said, laughing.”

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg.....37-176.stm

Hillary, you throw mud, you get dirty.

By: David Drissel

David Drissel — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:42:36 +0000

This sort of thing just demonstrates how desperate the Clinton campaign has become.
What’s really amazing (and hypocritical) is that Hillary Clinton has often lifted phrases and ideas from conservative politicians without giving attribution. At least Obama is using lines from one of his top confidants/advisors, which is fully appropriate given their close relationship. As Bay Buchanan noted tonight on CNN, Hillary’s frequent use of the phrase “we’re going to take back America” was lifted straight from (Bay’s brother) Pat Buchanan’s political speeches when he was running for president in the 1990s. Moreover, Hillary’s insistence on a universal health care scheme that includes mandatory compliance for all citizens comes straight from Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts’ playbook. Before the Romney’s Massachusetts’ plan, virtually no one running for president had ever insisted that health care coverage would have to be mandatory to be universal.

By: Dotty Belec

Dotty Belec — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:07:29 +0000

Hillary is grasping at straws trying to accuse Obama of everything she possibly can.
It shows you how afraid her camp is about the possibility of losing. How many times has people used famous lines in their conversations to make a point. And we did not credit the person who originally said it.
This is just another tactic to distract the voters on the real issue. Who is making the most sense and more trust worthy. It is becoming more and more clear that if we elect Hillary as President, she will only be a figure head president. Her husband, Bill, will be in charge and running the show.

By: A Second Hand Conjecture » Theater of the Absurd, Act III

A Second Hand Conjecture » Theater of the Absurd, Act III — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:29:40 +0000

[...] The Clinton campaign’s effort to brand Barack Obama as a plagiarist for borrowing some lines from his friend Deval Patrick, is truly sigh inducing. Even worse is Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson’s tacit acknowledgment (in the midst of the attack), that Hillary has been borrowing language from Obama himself. Wolfson alleges that this doesn’t matter, because “Sen. Clinton is not running on the strength of her rhetoric.” Carpetbagger Report agrees with him: “Senator Clinton is running on the strength of whatever bogus attack she can come up with to attack Obama with every day.” Yup. [...]

By: CSB

CSB — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:24:46 +0000

In the beginning of The War Room, D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary on the ’92 Clinton campaign, James Carville says to a room full of staff: “If we can win this, we can knock this sh** back forever”. What are the chances that an Obama win would knock the Clintons’ nonsense back forever? That would be nice.