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Words don't matter? "It depends on what the meaning of is, is." Bill Clinton.
I can think back to Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony during Monicagate and I don't think at that time, he would have been saying "words don't matter".
I'll leave it at that.
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Oh, how nice, the acolytes of the Candidate of Hope using GOP talking points once again.
February 18, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Acolytes? I see one person. You need to remember that on any website you are dealing with .5% of a candidates supporters, and they tend to be the most extreme.
I am tired of being lumped in. Just because I got treated like crap by a few HRC supporters at our caucus didn't make me start saying "all Hillary supporters are rude and unwilling to listen."
So stop saying all Obama supporters are cultists.
February 19, 2008 1:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
If a Republican Talking Point is valid, who cares? Based on what I've read here and heard from potential voters, American citizens are innately stupid, willing to buy into the celebrity of their politicians regardless of whether or not they'll get it up the rectum later on. That condition is simple to diagnose: INSANE or stupid. Take your pick.
February 19, 2008 7:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Words do matter.
Senator Obama -- In your speech on Super Tuesday, perhaps by coincidence, you used key phrases from a 1984 speech by Jesse Jackson (“Our time has come. Our time has come” DNC), a poem by June Jordan (“we are the ones we have been waiting for” -- “Poem for South African Women”), and a song by Norman Hutchins (“a change is coming”) – but you did not credit any of them for the key lines in your speech. Isn’t this the kind of speechwriting that doomed Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in the 1980s, and why should your speeches be held to a different standard?
February 19, 2008 11:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
"A change is coming" is original enough to be claimed by a single author? Ditto with the other examples. I think you need to learn the definition of generic.
February 19, 2008 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why? Because he is Barack Obama, and as you know
by now, there are no standards he has to meet.
He can have a history of taking drugs-no problem.
He can use other people's words as his own-no problem. He can use other people's policy platforms as his own-no problem. He can start at the top of the ladder instead of working his why up-no problem. He is Barack Obama-and that's all
we have to know.
February 19, 2008 12:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Desperation is calling the use of a line sanctioned by its author plagarism. How bankrupt is the Clinton campaign and its supporters that their only line of defense at this point is to create GOP talking points for the GOP, based on total nonsense. Hillary has lifted more lines from others than Obama by a very wide margin. She's also changed her capmapign slogan 4 or 5 times -- I guess the first 3 or 4 attempts didn't do so hot. If you ask me, the quality of the two campaigns suggests quite strongly that Obama would be far more effective as an executive from "Day 1" than Hillary - her campaign is a disaster.
February 19, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
^^^^^^
The words that put food on the Clinton table.
February 19, 2008 5:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Richmond,
The Joe Biden plagiarism issue drove him out of the presidential race in 1988 because Biden plagiarized a biographical speech. Biden took British politician Neil Kinnoch's life story speech and used it as a sort of fill in the blanks template. "Why am I the first (Kinnoch/Biden) . . . " http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/plagiarism.html
February 19, 2008 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Via YouTube
February 19, 2008 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
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