Has the Obama plagiarism smear already been debunked?

Today the Clinton campaign accused Obama of plaigiarism, while not mentioning this little gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rweVOO-fh... But Obama had already credited Deval Patrick for some of the words used in his speeches last year. Heres a news story confirming that: http://thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com/archive... From Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight: "The word thrown at Senator Obama by Clinton campaign honcho Howard Wolfson is "plaigarism" -- a charge that sank Joe Biden's first presidential bid 20 years ago. But the purported victim of the plaigarism, Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, says he and Senator Obama use each other's wordings all the time and he has no complaint. On at least one occasion Senator Obama explicitly credited the source anyway... And the issue of the overlap of language was discussed by both men in a Boston Globe article from April of last year." What do you think Hillary will try next?

Public Comments

1. No this will last a while. So will what his wife said today too. Turned off a lot of folks.
2. Nothing is ever really debunked in the minds of people intent on believing the worst. Don't forget to them he is also a commie Muslim terrorist gay. And I wouldn't blame Hillary when it is people who despise her who are harping on this and anything else they can throw against the wall and make stick.
3. Let's see what Gov. Patrick took from Obama?
4. no he did it and is a speech thief
5. Hillary will do anything to steal this election. She is like a democratic Bush
6. Here is what Deval Patrick, the "plagiarized party," had to say about it: "Mr. Patrick said he and Mr. Obama discussed the argument in advance and he encouraged his friend to defend himself the same way he did during his race in 2006. " http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/us/pol... This criticism of Obama's "plagiarism" is a spurious issue, raised because his opponents are unable to address the argument itself.
7. Anything is possible when you're on a sinking ship. I love how Obama just laughs off her lame attempts to discredit him. She's really is a low life hag.
8. who knows, she is a woman scorned, they get crazy
9. no big deal
10. What plaigarism? Just Much Ado About Nothing for the American Dumb. Did any of the accused stole and plaigarized contents from materials that are copyrighted?
11. I thought Hillary supporters were as dumb as can be but now they've taken it to a new level. Oh yeah it's such a big scandal that Barack and Patrick use parts of each other's speeches. So much worse than the evil witch who has been directly involved in scandal after scandal and then even went so far as to have her husband pardon terrorists and other known crooks to further her political career. It just gets sicker and sicker.