Obama and Plagiarism

Plagiarism: The Other Shoe Drops

Harry Shearer | Posted 02.29.2008 | Media

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An Indiana blogger exposes a serial plagiarist in an interesting locale: the White House. The offender has already copped to the most recent offense.

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Barack Obama: Will the Wound Heal?

John Ridley | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

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The plagiarism jab left barely a scratch on Obama. But sometimes even the slightest wounds can fail to heal.

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I'm Just Sayin': The Common Good -- Obama's Words Past and Future

Phil Trounstine | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

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Obama use of Deval Patrick's lines is no more plagiarism than when Hillary Clinton uses the same quotation from Isaiah that her husband used in the past.

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Waking Up From History

Jeff Chang | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

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MLK, Jr. has been forgiven his own plagiarism because the moment demanded "I Have A Dream," whether or not the three words were arranged by Republican Archibald Carey.

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Doesn't Hillary Clinton Use Words Written By Others?

Stephen Kaus | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

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Did Hillary Clinton make up "change you can Xerox" or did someone else write that? While we are at it, did she make up "ready on day one" or "solutions not speeches?

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It's the Sincerity, Stupid!

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics

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On occasion, Hillary can do sincerity. Obama is sincere. And that's what people are responding to.

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Chess. Not Boxing.

Dylan Loewe | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics

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While Mark Penn was boxing, David Axelrod was playing chess. His decisions have been made within a long-term strategic framework, designed with a focus, three, four, sometimes five moves ahead.

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Campaign AdWatch: I Can Has Specifics?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics

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Hey, kids! Are you all strung out on that Hope that Democratic candidate/pusherman Barack Obama has been selling? Heading into the long, dark, teati...

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More Charges Of "Plagiarism," Even Worse Evidence

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney and Sam Stein | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics

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"Plagiarism-gate," or whatever moniker is given to revelations that Sen. Barack Obama borrowed other politician's words, continued on Wednesday, despi...

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MoDo Manages To Diminish The 'Plagiarism' Discourse Even Further

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics

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No matter where you might stand on the issue of Barack Obama and Deval Patrick sharing choice bon mots with one another, it's likely that everyone can...

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Barack Obama And Why It Matters That He Plagiarized A Speech (At Least One That We Know Of)

Sylvia Welsh | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

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Mr. Obama's dismissal of this fraudulent act and his other as "no big deals" undermines what parents and teachers have been trying to teach their kids about honesty and integrity, sometimes against very strong odds.

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The Chink In Obama's Armor

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

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The Clinton campaign's plagiarism accusation shows that Obama is not quite as unique, not quite as historic, and not nearly as anti-politics-as- usual as his campaign rhetoric claims him to be.

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Barack Obama Busted for Stolen Rhetoric

Bob Franken | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

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Perhaps Barack Obama will now include a new phrase in his speeches which goes "...and I quote."

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Ex-Clinton Speechwriter: "So Silly To Accuse Obama Of Plagiarism"

The New Republic | David Kusnet | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

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We asked former Bill Clinton speechwriter David Kusnet if today's plagiarism accusations against Barack Obama were justified. In his mind, was what Ob...

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Barack and Deval's Plagiarism Seesaw

John R. Bohrer | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

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I'd like to put Hillary Clinton's 2008 attacks on Obama's rhetoric next to that of Patrick's 2006 Republican opponent, Kerry Healey. Might find some "plagiarism" there, too.

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John McCain Is Apparently A Plagiarist, Too

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

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If you remember, coming out of the Potomac Primaries, the Clinton campaign promised an increase focus on specifics over speeches, which is why they ha...

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Obama, Patrick Collaboration Noted Specifically By Globe Back In April 2007

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

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Fresh accusations of plagiarism are being hurled at Barack Obama for his use of language on the stump that directly mirrors speeches given by Massachu...

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Nasty Clinton-Obama Fight Descends To "Plagiarism" Accusations

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

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The two Democratic presidential campaigns traded accusations on Monday that each candidate had lifted language from other politicians, with a Clinton ...

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The Wolfson Plagiarism Attack Is Ridiculous

Bob Cesca | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

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What's the next attack? Obama stole his haircut from whoever? Obama's gestures are lifted from what's his name? Seriously, is this what Howard Wolfson and Mark Penn have been reduced to?

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'I Have a Dream' Becomes Obama's 'I Have a Con'

Taylor Marsh | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

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Obama's played his supporters for suckers. They bought into the hope hype, sucking up this stuff with a straw, only to find out Obama's not an original, he's a knock off, of a governor, no less.

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Obama's Secret Speechwriter

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

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If politics is sports, then Obama's rhetoric is like a filthy fastball that opposing hitters haven't managed to hit yet. He keeps running it out there until someone connects off of him.

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