{"id":14620,"date":"2008-02-18T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T20:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14620.html"},"modified":"2008-02-18T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T20:41:50","slug":"clinton-accuses-obama-of-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/clinton-accuses-obama-of-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Accuses Obama of Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest post by Ron Chusid<\/a><\/p>\n

The latest nonsense<\/a> to come out of the Clinton camp is charges of plagiarism against Obama. The charge is based upon similarities in a passage from a speech that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick used at a campaign rally in 2006. The problem with raising a charge of plagiarism is that it is only plagiarism when a line is used without permission.<\/p>\n

Patrick has defended Obama and criticized Clinton\u2019s campaign for this attack. Both Obama and Patrick freely admit that they share ideas. Patrick is currently an adviser to Obama. There is nothing wrong with Obama using a line with Patrick\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n

The other implication in this attack is that Obama is incapable of using his own words. Obama responded<\/a> to this charge:<\/p>\n

\u201cNow hold on a second. I mean, look here, I\u2019ve written two books. Wrote most of my speeches,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, I think putting aside the question you just raised in terms of whether my words are my own, I think that would be carrying it too far. Deval and I do trade ideas all the time, and, you know, he\u2019s occasionally used lines of mine. I was at a [Jefferson-Jackson] dinner in Wisconsin used some words of his. And, you know, I would add that I know Sen. Clinton on occasion has used words of mine as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obama said he frequently gives credit to others for ideas or language he has gotten from others. \u201cI\u2019m happy to give Deval credit, as I give to a lot of people for spurring all kinds of ideas,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Patrick is willingly sharing ideas with Obama, Hillary Clinton has felt free to borrow words from Obama<\/a> without permission.
\n<\/p>\n

The Obama campaign immediately struck back with a document headlined: \u201cHere are a couple of places Clinton freely borrowed rhetoric from Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the examples are Clinton\u2019s use of Obama\u2019s signature chant \u201cfired up and ready to go\u201d in Davenport, Iowa, and later her echoing of his rally cry, \u201cYes, we can<\/a>!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A question from Jack Tapper<\/a> at the Clinton conference call shows yet again how Hillary Clinton does not believe the rules apply to her:<\/p>\n

I asked Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson and Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass, if they could assure the public that neither Clinton nor McGovern has ever done what Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, did when he used the rhetoric of Gov. Deval Patrick without footnoting him.<\/p>\n

They would not.<\/p>\n

In fact, Wolfson seemed to say it wouldn\u2019t be as big a deal if it were discovered that Clinton had \u201clifted\u201d such language.<\/p>\n

\u201cSen. Clinton is not running on the strength of her rhetoric,\u201d Wolfson said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No she is not. Senator Clinton is running on the strength of whatever bogus attack she can come up with to attack Obama with every day. The Clinton campaign regularly holds conference calls such as this to feed surrogates and friendly blogs the same talking points to use to attack Obama. This is the consequence of running for president based upon claims of inevitability and false claims of having greater experience as Clinton is grasping for anything to try to convince a declining number of supporters to vote for her.<\/p>\n

Cross posted from Liberal Values<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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