Pitbulls: Clintons Press Further Plagiarism Charges On Obama
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Clinton Campaign: A “Pattern” of Obama Borrowing [Byron York]
Top Clinton campaign officials Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson are holding another conference call with reporters now. Wolfson is pointing to a “pattern” of alleged plagiarism by Barack Obama, suggesting that reporters look at a blog entry by ABC’s Jake Tapper which suggests another example of Obama lifting material from Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In that blog entry, Tapper points to a statement from Obama quoted in USA Today in 2007: “I am not asking anyone to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.” Tapper then quotes Patrick, speaking to the 2006 Massachusetts Democratic convention, saying, “I am not asking anybody to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.”
“We are seeing a pattern here,” Wolfson told reporters a short time ago. “And here is another example of where the words match exactly.”
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