Plagiarism? No, just words (to borrow a phrase)
By Scot Lehigh | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…One requirement for being in politics is the ability to say patently silly things with a tone of utmost seriousness.
Thus it was that on Monday, Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson and US Representative Jim McGovern set about trying to manufacture a campaign mountain out of something that barely qualifies as a rhetorical molehill.
The issue is Barack Obama’s borrowing of one of Deval Patrick’s oratorical constructs and two of his words….”…BS
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Actually, Obama has been plagiarizing his lines not only from his friend, but from other sources as well. He lifted at least two segments directly from (of all places) episodes of The West Wing, and lifted his now-most-famous-line – “We are the ones we have been waiting for†– from Rev. Jim Wallis’ book, “God’s Politics,†where Wallis quotes this phrase from a friend. And although the phrase is attributed originally to the Hopi Indians, Obama read “God’s Politics†prior to appearing at Wallis’ Sojourners forum (at which Obama, Clinton and Edwards spoke of faith and politics). During this forum, Obama SPECIFICALLY cited that quote from the book.
Peace.
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