Two videos are circulating today, purporting to show that Obama has borrowed passages of his speeches from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a political ally. Both men are advised by Chicago-based strategist David Axelrod.
The point appears to be that Obama is performing a schtick that worked in Massachusetts, not speaking from the heart. Of course, it could also mean that Patrick and Obama feel the same way about certain issues.
That's the explanation offered by both Patrick and the Obama campaign: “They're friends who share similar views and talk and trade good lines all the time.”
First, from Obama's speech in Wisconsin on Saturday night:
Then, Patrick in a 2006 speech, responding to his Republican opponent Mass. Gov. Kerry Healey:
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The truth of this debate over words is that Words do Matter and Words are not Cheap, as Clinton tries to insinuate and would have us to believe. Without words there would be no great books or poetry, and she herself said in her autobiography that she was inspired by the words of Martin Luther King to a life of service. So why is she is trying to not-so-cleverly put a damper on Obama's speech making ability, the ability to inspire a Generation of People.
In her own recent speeches, she is trying to emulate Barack's words -- cleverly trying to weave and incorporate their meaning in her own stump speeches. Yes we Will, she says. We can do this, she says. Words cleverly twisted and speckled with Barack's oratorical skill, so words obviously do matter. And that chant of hers, Yes we Will, is a pitiful immitation of Yes we Can and it sounds just that.
If they want to win, they are barking up the wrong tree. America has moved on, America is growing up, something the Clintons have not caught on too. And because Duval and Barack are such good freinds it could be that Barack gave Duval the lines two years ago for his speech, so what does it matter? The truth is Words do Matter. And, she talks about Let's get Real, well Reality is Words Do Matter and Words are not Cheap! So let's Get Real On That!