Well, this whole Obama plagiarizing thing is akin to Clinton calling Obama "overrated." I can't think of a political speech that wasn't borrowed in some way from another political speech, including Clinton's. This is what David Kurtz had to say about this:
The attacks are intended to bring down Obama's positives, to knock him off his pedestal. But it's hard to see how they raise Hillary's. Her argument, boiled down, is: "He's no better than me." (Or perhaps, less charitably, "He's just as bad as me.")
Judged as political rhetoric, it strikes me as equally ineffective as her earlier charge that Obama was "raising false hopes."
Kurtz hits this right on the head, and this is precisely what people hate about Clinton. The Clintons want to bring people down into the mud with them. They want to get dirty. This kind of campaigning is what Clinton earlier referred to as "the fun part."
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Amen! Kurtz and Thin Man are right on. This is EXACTLY why I can't stand the Clintons. And, if they are willing to endlessly spin and play dirty politics during a campaign, who's to say they won't continue to do it during a presidency? They will. Just like Bush could lie about War and Peace, she has it in her to lie about such important things.
Oh Clyde, give Hillary a break. She's just trying to make the best of a bad situation. She's got a tiger by the tail and she can't hang on. She'd make a good president, but it does not look like she will get the chance.
Thankfully...although, it's not over yet. She has demonstrated over and over that she will say anything, do anything, vote for anything (see 2002 war resolution)if it seems politically expedient. You can't dispute the record...do some research.
Here's the difference: When Wake Forest was yelling "Overrated" again and again, they were about to BEAT one of the best teams in NCAA b-ball. But when Hillary took the same approach (minus the chanting), she was about to LOSE to the underdog. I'd love to see Duke fans stand up and shout "Underrated" to the Wake Forest players.
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