Obama/Patrick & Plagiarism

Having paid some fair amount of attention to the newly-elected Governor Deval Patrick's campaign in 2006, and voting for him in November of 2006, I thought Obama's message had several familar tones. All were fine with me because I voted for Patrick because I loved his positive message campaign, and let the record show Deval has had mixed reviews since he got into office in early 2007.

I don't disagree with Obama's assertion that this plagiarism rap, where he's being accused of lifting Patrick's rhetoric (even with Patrick's approval) and not citing Patrick, is a bit of a phony-baloney charge...THIS is exactly the kind of bullshit crap that Obama will face come the general election campaign. The right-wing will hurl everything they have to see what can/will stick, and see if they can rattle Obama. Obama has been a very cool customer so far, and this has proven to be one of his strengths.

This is classic Clinton strategy, which I don't think will ultimately work, but I appreciate Clinton for continuing to dig up any possible piece of dirt they possibly can on this guy to fully test him.