I am trying to not blame Obama - things happen, and when you are giving multiple speeches every day, this type of slip up happens - especially when you have a speechwriter.

And of course, the self-inflicted wound of the perfect set-up - making a charge like this is just an invitation for everyone to scour your own words for borrowed phrases, and you can be sure they will be found in droves.

And to top it off, that totally hilarious comment by Wolfson - that it would be okay for Hillary to borrow phrases because, after all, no one considers here a good speaker?

I don't think Obama is corrupt, by any means, but he's a politician who has risen to the top awfully damned fast, hard to believe he hasn't cut his share of deals along the way.  Which is all fine and good, I just wish I knew what they were now instead of finding out in September and October.  

I have also heard the same thing from numerous MA colleagues. They didn't want Romney's Lt. gov. and Deval sounded good, although light on experience and record (sound familiar?). So they voted for "change".

Now he hasn't been able to deliver. There was no record because he never accomplished anything and he didn't know how to make the levers of government work.

The reason I put plagiarizing in single quotes:

Though Biden had correctly credited the original author in all speeches but one, the one where he failed to make mention of the originator was caught on video. In the video Biden is filmed repeating a stump speech by Kinnock, with only minor modifications.

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After Biden withdrew from the race it was learned that he had correctly credited Kinnock on all other occasions. He failed to do so, however, in the Iowa speech that was recorded and distributed to reporters (with a parallel video of Kinnock) by aides to Michael Dukakis, the eventual nominee. Dukakis fired John Sasso, his campaign manager and long-time Chief of Staff, but Biden's campaign could not recover.

Point is that for him he was drummed out of the nomination race for mostly that error. And it's still brought up to knock him.

Have times changed? Is this now just something that happens?

I don't know, but for me, and I tend to know more about the minutia of this primary than lots of voters, it tells me that this wondrous inspirational rhetoric is part of a packaged deal, perhaps put together by Axelrod. I don't know--just made me view it with a bit more jaudiced eye. For those not so deeply into the tall grass, it may mean little.

What I really want to know is whether the "a light will shine down on your and you will know you have to vote for Barack Obama" spiel is his own or written for him.

I'm ready to find something else to do at 8:00pm--until Keith isn't so biased. And he's far from the worst.

Someone said earlier that Michelle Obama would soon learn what lovely ladies such as MoDo do to other well-educated, intelligent women.  I think MO's remark is going to see some spin over the next few days.

I think it's been a slow news day and this story just seemed "right."

There was also something on NBC tonight where they said Obama got a little "testy" with a reporter in answering a question.  I don't know if anyone else saw this, but it didn't seem to me that he got testy.  What happened was he sort of insulted a reporter, which you do NOT do.

The thing that really, really gets me is Obama's insistence that he for a different kind of politics when he is exactly the same.  

I'm also getting really sick of hearing that Hillary's support comes from non-college educated, lower income, women over 60.  I am a women with a master's degree but many years from 60.  BTW my husband, a lawyer, also voted for Hillary in our unpleasantly red state of Tennessee.

Because your argument sounds an awful lot like "well what do you expect, he's a politician" when I'm pretty sure the primary basis for Obama's campaign is that he's NOT just another politician.

You listen to the language of what people say, particularly Obama, who seems to be using a lot of John's 2004 language, which is maybe not surprising since one of his speechwriters was one of our speechwriters, his media guy was our media guy.