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8:50 PM ET, February 18, 2008

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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
An Obama Refrain Bears Echoes of a Governor's Speeches  —  CHICAGO — Senator Barack Obama adapted one of his signature arguments — that his oratory amounts to more than inspiring words — from speeches given by Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts during his 2006 campaign.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Clinton aide accuses Obama of plagiarism  —  Howard Wolfson, the Clinton campaign's communications director, today accused Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) of committing “plagiarism” in a speech in Milwaukee on Saturday night.  —  Wolfson made the explosive charge in an interview with Politico …
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
IT'S ALL ABOUT AUTHENTICITY  —  By now, you've probably heard of the new attack line from the Hillary campaign, accusing Obama of plagiarism because an ad-libbed portion of his stump speech mimicked the language and rhythm of a two-year-old speech by his friend and supporter, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.
Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
The Clinton Campaign Just Now...  In a conference call just now the Clinton campaign would not guarantee that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, has never used someone else's rhetoric without crediting them.  —  I asked Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson and Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Is This Really Plagiarism?  No  —  The New York Times makes a big deal about some similarities between elements in Barack Obama's speech and similar constructs in speeches given earlier by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in 2006.  While the wording appears too close for coincidence …
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Barack Obama - Deval Patrick Thread II  —  Agree or disagree, Barack Obama's recycling of words taken from campaign speeches of Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick is a big story today.  Here's just one compilation from Mememorandum.  —  Our original post has more than 200 comments, which means it's time for that thread to close.
Discussion: The Caucus and Wonkette
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Clinton Campaign Can't Say It Never “Borrowed” Anyone Else's Rhetoric  —  It turns out that after raising the issue of Senator Barack Obama “borrowing” someone else's campaign rhetoric, the Clinton campaign reportedly not only says it can't guarantee that it never did the same thing …
Discussion: The Newshoggers
Greg Veis / The New Republic:
Former Clinton Speechwriter Weighs In On Plagiarism-Gate
Discussion: Burnt Orange Report
Dan Balz / The Trail:
What's the Matter with Wisconsin
Discussion: The New Republic
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Obama says he should have credited Patrick
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and Taylor Marsh
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Obama and Deval Patrick's Shared Language: Issue or Not?
Discussion: The Ruckus
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Obama, Clinton camps point to ‘borrowed rhetoric’
Discussion: Hot Air
Frank James / The Swamp:
Did Obama plagiarize? Clinton team says yes
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Texas poll shows dead heat among Dems  —  CNN deputy political director  —  (CNN) — It's all tied up in Texas.  —  A new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll suggests the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination between Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Who's calling who a second-class delegate?  —  A co-chairman of Hillary's Michigan campaign and has a line that's sure to drive a whole bunch of red state governors up the wall:  —  “Superdelegates are not second-class delegates,” says Joel Ferguson, who will be a superdelegate if Michigan is seated.
Sasha Issenberg / Boston Globe:
Pride in the name of self-love  —  MILWAUKEE — So what did Michelle Obama think of the United States before her husband decided he wanted to run the place?  —  “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “because it feels like hope is making a comeback.”
Mike Lux / Open Left:
Jim Cooper Scares Me  —  I have been beating up on the Clinton campaign pretty hard lately because I haven't been crazy about the kind of campaign they have been running.  And I will admit that my heart has been won by the enthusiasm of all those young and passionate Obama supporters.
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Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
System Worries Clinton Backers  —  Supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are worried that convoluted delegate rules in Texas could water down the impact of strong support for her among Hispanic voters there, creating a new obstacle for her in the must-win presidential primary contest.
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BBC:
Whistle-blower site taken offline  —  A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US.  —  Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says.
Little Green Footballs:
Hizballah = Nazis  —  A photo that says everything about the Lebanese terror gang Hizballah, as they pay tribute to dead mass murderer Imad Mughniyeh with a straight-armed Nazi salute.  The Associated Press caption, of course, takes no notice of it.
Discussion: Solomonia
Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Nearly-naked hotties for Ron Paul!  Really!  —  You better hurry because the last batch of Ron Paul pinup calendars is going quickly.  Which pleases Juliet Annerino no end because she sank a sizable chunk of her own change into printing up hundreds of these calendars to help fund the campaign of her favorite politician.
 
 
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