Not only did Patrick and Obama share words, they share entire campaign themes. At the crux of the package is hope, an idea that many people hold sacred.

The real story, as others on talk left have pointed out, is that David Axelrod is selling the adult version of a happy meal.  And it's a promise that politics simply cannot deliver.  

Each time a new Obama quote is attributable to some recycled Deval Patrick quote, and I believe there will be more, it will be a reminder to voters that this appeal to their hopes, aspirations, and a dream of a better America is merely packaged political rhetoric without the goods to back it up. That hurts.

I am a Hillary supporter because I bought the experience rationale but I admired  Obama for his oratory skills which is inspiring and one you havent seen since JFK and RFK.  I thought they were original.

Hillary Clinton is selling her "35 years of experience". She has a universal health care plan and an aggressive plan to soften the housing crisis.

Bob Dole offered a 15% tax cut and promised to be a bridge to a past where America was allegedly better off. Ronald Reagan asked if you think America is better off now that it was four years ago, and told everyone that government was too big and part of the problem. Jimmy Carter promised he would never lie to you (this was after Watergate).

Here is a piece from Christopher Hayes last February in The Nation - Obama's Media Maven.

Given his rhetorical skills, Harvard Law pedigree, up-by-the-bootstraps bio and, well, his race, it is hard not to compare recently elected Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to his friend Barack Obama. Both men entered crowded primaries in which they were definitively not favored. They both inspired a kind of personal pride among supporters that is rare in politics. On the evening of Obama's convincing primary victory, the crowd and the candidate joined in chanting, "Yes We Can!" and if you listen closely to video of Patrick rallies, you'll hear the crowd chanting the very same thing. When Patrick looked into the camera in one ad and said the state's problem wasn't a "deficit of dollars but a deficit of leadership," it was hard not to hear echoes of Obama's oft-used line that the country's biggest problem isn't a budget deficit but an "empathy deficit." And in Patrick's most effective ad, he stands on a stage delivering an impassioned speech to a crescendo of applause as Obama sits on a stool just behind him, nodding approvingly, his head perfectly framed in the shot.

Which brings us to something else the two men share: David Axelrod, the 51-year-old reporter turned media consultant who was the key media strategist for both men's campaigns. He's the one who wrote those ads, framed that shot and came up with the "Yes We Can" tag line. "I don't bring these messages to candidates," Axelrod says when I point out the similarities. "I look for candidates who exemplify and reflect those messages." In the cases of Obama and Patrick, he says, the work is a collaboration. "They take and improve on what you bring them; they deliver it well because they believe in it. It's like riffing with great musicians."

I am tired of being sold a bill of goods and that has been one of my greatest concerns with Obama.  

By the way it would seem that Obama let people know that he was borrowing the line....

Barack Obama told a New Hampshire audience he was borrowing a line from friend Deval Patrick, urging people to "vote your aspirations." He joked that Patrick "stole a whole bunch of lines from me" during his gubernatorial campaign.

Apparently Deval didn't think much of it a month ago...

Patrick insists there's no "playbook."

"We believe similar things. We believe in a robust participatory democracy. We believe in grassroots campaigning and grassroots governing. We believe that people get the government they deserve," he said.

But now I know why. He is an evil plagiarist as well!!!

'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' Just words," Patrick said then, firing up the crowd about the power of words and messages. "'We have nothing to fear but fear itself.' Just words ... 'I have a dream.' Just words."

Obama, in an interview with The New Republic published in March, said "words are pretty powerful. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men are created equal.' Those are just words. 'I have a dream.' Just words. But they help move things. And I think it was partly that understanding that probably led me to try to do something similar in different arenas."

He professes to have original thought as to how we can solve problems.  That is his appeal - a new way of doing things - change.

When we find out he is borrowing those thoughts, and merely reciting it with the fervor and cadence of a black preacher, we know he is just acting it out.

The point is, are you 100% sure no one will dig up a video clip of BO using that phrase before or around about the same time as Deval did? Thereby putting into question who actually did come up with the phrase first.

Not likely, I'm sure, but that's the point of my questioning this game. It could bite back.

"Speeches are political property.  They're speeches.  
You can't copyright political rhetoric."

At the very least in terms of quality of information.

You describe the MSM quite well above, they seek to influence, not inform.