Good grief: There are no words that have never been used by anyone else!

Now Obama is accused of "plagarism" because his speeches and Patrick's both contain the mantra "Just words" and quote the most famous phrases of the Declaration of Independence and Martin Luther King"s "I Have a Dream" speech.

But, as James Joyner in "OutsideTheBeltway.com" says: these words are iconic in American politics and, especially, for black candidates.

This is NOT a case of a candidate lifting pages from another speech. It is a phrase that is rhetorically repeated. Big deal!

Yes, Obama's followers are "carrying" him. He's pulled off the unlikely feat of turning enthusiastic support into a fundraising base and a highly effective political organizing machine. In other words, Obama is one of those rare politicians whose candidacy is owned and propelled by the people who believe in him. I don't see how this makes him "weak".

Who's "carrying" your candidate? I'll give you a hint- www.fec.gov.

Speeches are great but they don't pay the bills or bring jobs or run an effective government. Hillary has done a great job for the people of New York. Obamas says he won't take lobbyist money but his chief strategist Axelrod is a lobbyist for Exelon a Corp that gave Obama $227,000 this campaign. So as long as the check comes in the mail and it is not hand delivered by the lobbyist your in bed with then that's a new kind of politics.

What you stupidly refer to as monarchy has no bearing on the Clintons. As I recall, Bill Clinton's daddy died before he was born, and he grew up in Arkansas without silver spoons. His mother worked for a living and supported her son's ability. He married a woman as bright as him with as much gumption to run for political office. The power they have has been of their own hard work. To closely tie them to the Bush family who have generation after generation been handed a throne is wrong and stupid.

I'm not worried about a Bush dynasty anymore - Little Georgey killed it for Jeb and the rest of the Bushshits. Yippee!
Poor Obama won't get into the first year of his "dynasty" if he wins the primaries - he's a softie, which is why so many Dems love him and the Repubs will crucify him 10 times more than they could Hillary. He'll lose the General election within the first month of winning the primary...he'll be a mush of blood and bone.

It's the Koolaid drinking nuts like yourself that contradict what this campaign supposedly stands for. I am not buying any of what Obama is selling.

UPDATE FEBRUARY 18, SUNDAY EVENING.
Jayhome has no posts prior to I believe February 14th or 15th, but has managed to post over 100 negative posts on Barack Obama in the past 3 days. He is either a Hillary paid troll or a Republican troll, none the less his vindictive and hatred come through loud and clear.

I don't like the "educated" anymore, even though I is one.

I have to keep training them "how to do the job".

So what - If Obama has the "educated" white people, the blacks and the young.

Hillary has the working class white people, the hispanics and the seniors.

Ask yourself. Where do you fit? Whose struggle do you want to support this year?

This year - The Best Man For The Job Is The Woman.

I saw this as and I have to agree with you it made me cringe - Shocking since I support Obama, as a supporter I have been called crazy, sexist and deluded. Whatever .... while we may not agree on our choice of candidate at least I can agree that Chris Mathews and his pundits are complete assholes

Oh please, that's a new one, and just as ridiculous as all the other unsubstantiated attacks on Hillary.

again using a blog for info. ignorance is bliss.

obamas new policies, yeah he had to steal them from Hillary.


"Obama's (economic) plan. is the most shameless piece of potential plagiarism that I have ever seen. He basically took Clinton's words and Clinton's policies and called them his own. If I were a professor I'd give him an F and try to get him kicked out of school," said Kevin Hassett, Sen. John McCain's economic advisor and the Director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

Ohg:

And I'm personally dismayed over Obama's actions:

http://obamatruth.org

Great oratory is fine, and even desireable...BUT if you are running for POTUS, there has to be more...there has to be ACTION to back up the oratory.

Unfortunately, the primary actions exhibited by Barack Obama in this campaign have been passing the collection plate and public displays of legislative cowardice and hypocracy ... To wit...

Last summer he (and Hillary) waited till the last minute to vote on the Iraq funding bill, slipping into Senate chambers almost hoping to go unnoticed... That bill included special funding for life-saving MRAPs (thanks to the specific and diligent efforts of former candidate, JOE BIDEN, the one that got away!)...they were unsure which vote would be most politically advantageous, hence their hesitation...

THEN, in September Obama did not join the others for the well-publicized BIDEN-Gelb Iraq resolution vote (which Biden got passed with a significant bi-partisan majority) OR the Kyl-Lieberman Iran resolution vote... HE NEVER EVEN SHOWED UP, and instead gave a speech to members of the Congressional Black Caucus ironically highlighting the message of being people of action and not just words!... Demonstrating what a legislative coward AND a hypocrite he is in one fell swoop... COMPOUNDED BY THE FACT THAT HE HAS BEEN GIVEN A BIG FAT PASS BY THE MEDIA ON BOTH COUNTS. (Criticize too hard and run the risk of being considered racist.)

So stirring oratory is wonderful, just not by an empty suit...

But then, hundreds of thousands of people follow stirring orators with back-up bands in arena mega-"churches" every Sunday, filling those deep collection plates like good little sheepies, so I guess we/I shouldn't be so surprised that it's working in this campaign too...

It all just makes me very squirmy...and concerned that we'll end up with another Jimmy Carter administration: ill-equipped and one-term.

P.S. I don't like HRC either...She (and her new campaign mgr. Maggie Williams - ugh! - both let Bob Johnson get away with an unconscionable (sic) remark regarding Obama which was, IMHO, what torpedoed her campaign, not Bill' remarks.

Manipulate?

Instilling fear in millions of Americans? Naming legislation for the opposite of its effect? Screaming the need for near-dictatorial powers to protect us when ceding such power weakens our Constitution, the law he swore to uphold?

Kevenseven should look at Bush for a while before casting a stone a Senator Obama.

Americans are waking up from the sleepy fog they'bve been in under this administration, and they don't like what they see. Americans are starting to fulfill THEIR constitutional obligation to be an informed electorate.

The best conduit for bonding with issues is through an articulate speaker who can help us be more truthfully informed.

Obama rocks.

Do you know what I find really disgusting? A civilian that would manipulate people's opinions simply because he/she does not like people being inspired. We, the people, like Obama for a lot more than mere "emotions." Neither Hillary or McCain have more substance than Obama yet people treat Barack as if her were a teenaged dumb blonde! What is wrong if the intelligent, moderate, down to earth, handsome candidate also happens to inspire us? Sure, he may turn out to succumb to politics as usual but, in the very least, he is certainly a good role model for future generations (i.e. an outsider of mixed racial background becoming president on his own steam because he's smart and hard working) and that is a good thing.

keven, time to give it up and change your name. Do you think people here care what you say anymore ?

After 7 years of bloodthisty neo-con rule, people are desperate for positive outcomes and cling to hope. They cling too tightly to this hope, though, to the point of ignoring all else. Obama is a good speaker, and his speech-writer writes with the lofty optimism of youth. Nothing particularly wrong with that, but most of it is just abstractions, and have very little substance. They are ideals that rarely occur in the empirical world.
I want the trains to run on time. I want my daughter to have healthcare. (she's 33, and working) I want better education for our nations youth, I want less war and more magnanimity, more altruism. I want the concrete benefits of hard work and intelligent problem solving. I don't need government to inspire me. And neither should anybody else. It's not the function of government to "inspire," us. I am inspired by good results, from hard work.

I say it over and over and will continue to do so, people who don't support Obama always try and use the "he's just a good speech" but has no substance crap. His "substance" on the issues are there for the reading if you "truly" want to know....www.barackobama.com

Gee, teahead your capital letters and your fuck you's really make you an outstanding Obama supporter.
And your promise that there 'will be hell to pay' makes all of us shudder. So nice to see Obama's message of peace and reuniting has attracted kind souls like you.
You might try some decaffeinated tea, pal. Your rage is showing.

And if Your guy STEALS the election you'll be very well taken care of if you end up in a hospital in his district.

Take a peek at your future:

http://obamatruth.org