Hat tip MM. Guess who’s not ready for prime time? Obamaby krs601 “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “and not just because Barack has done…

Hat tip: McRangerJudge for yourself: Deval Patrick 2006Obama 2008:Plagiarism? Wolking World says no. Hot Air says you can’t plagiarize someone that gives their consent.Politico:An Obama official said: “They’re friends who share similar views an…

picked up all over the blogosphere and mainstream media, including: New York Times, The Swamp, Weekly Standard, Taylor Marsh, Confederate Yankee, MSNBC, Don Surber, Hot Air, et. al. This episode by itself not that meaningful. Problem being – this was s…

And his defenders are already trying to claim that the attack on his inexperience, unpreparedness, emptiness, and dissembling is somehow racist.

…the Clinton water carriering (sic) conservatives are coming out of the woodwork screaming WE GOT YOU!!!

…this site is becoming ‘Hillary Clinton’s Hot Air, we can’t get our fill’…

olympian2008 on February 18, 2008 at 12:55 PM

Jesse? Jesse Jackson, Jr., is that you?

Still a little bitter since Mav disposed of your Aumish candidates with ease?

Wow, now if he could only take idiot lessons from you, he’d have it all down pat.

EyeSurgeon on February 18, 2008 at 10:32 AM

And spelling lessons.

Barack Obama is getting hit by the Hillary Clinton campaign for alleged plagiarism in part of a speech Obama delivered on Saturday in Wisconsin. It doesn’t seem on its face to be a huge deal for one politician to borrow a good line from another polit…

It’s just redistribution of wealth. Nothing new here, folks. It takes a village to raise Social Consciousness.

Nuance.

Add this very important development to your mental bookmark list as it’ll come in handy the next time we’re lectured by our betters about how adult and substantive Democratic contests are.

AP, from the other thread, on same topic.

“Adult and substantive“? – No, we have become a country with the majority in it being idiots. Sad, very sad for the country, as many of them are the ignorant youth.

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2. And if one or more do, so what? Who has more influence on the corporations overall performance? Who makes the decisions? And who, if he or she makes a mistake, is going to have a bigger impact on the corporation (and incidentally, everybody who works for it)? And is going to take a much bigger, harder, and longer fall if they do get it wrong?
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eon on February 18, 2008 at 11:49 AM

Ok so is there no ratio that would you make pause? If the CEO of a corporation is making a million times more money than his lowest paid employee, would that worry you? Is the rule simply ‘what the market will bear’, with no consequences?

I think the issue Obama raises is a very important one. I think it’s good to have incentives such as higher salary, but that incentive should not be unlimited. The question then becomes, what is an appropriate ratio. Is it 8700? is it 1000? is it 10000? I am not sure on the exact number, but there is something wrong where there is that much discrepancy.

Finally, this argument on who makes the more complex and risky decisions should be paid more is not clear to me. Is that a valid criteria?

If I compare the salaries of soldiers, personal injury lawyers, engineers, mecanics, maintenance personel, CEOs, baseball players, etc, and put them all on a scale, do I then get to conclude the higher you are, is that how I determine if the person will ‘take a much bigger, harder, and longer fall if they do get it wrong’?

Video player political plays of the week

Obama is as hollow as a chocolate Easter bunny.

regal on February 18, 2008 at 9:23 AM

Hollow Easter bunnies make me sad. :(

Boo! on the hollow chocolate bunnies!

Similarities between the words of Sen. Barack Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick have raised eyebrows and attracted traffic on YouTube.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, left, on the stump with Sen. Barack Obama.

A central passage in a speech Obama gave Saturday — aimed at convincing voters that his campaign is not just about lofty rhetoric — is adapted from one that Patrick used in his 2006 campaign, the Obama campaign said when asked about it.

The controversy is lost on the Massachusetts governor, who endorsed Obama.

This is hardly the first time that Americans in large numbers have gathered spellbound around a charlatan. His election would represent the first time the country as a whole truly fell for one.

And his defenders are already trying to claim that the attack on his inexperience, unpreparedness, emptiness, and dissembling is somehow racist.

PS – sorry, miles, I couldn’t resist the earlier post. Your original formulation was very nicely stated – though I think that the trained dolphin is probably the one on stage. The crowd just oohs and aahs like any crowd gathered around a well-executed show.

olympian2008 on February 18, 2008 at 12:55 PM

Copying another person’s speech, campaign slogan and delivery method are nothing to be concerned about especially when that’s all you’re running on. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt his candidacy. I learned from Deval’s campaign that Liberals want to be deceived. They go into it willingly. The reality the day after is something then need to work on however since they basically drove Deval into hiding when his actions did not live up to his rhetoric (and we’re talking about right out of the gate, his very first days in office).

Don’t mind us. We like carrying water for the Clintons.

More importantly Barack pointed out the numerous campaign stump speech lines that Hillary Clinton has lifted from his campaign so far in the past two months, “Fired up ready to go!” being one, just like McCain did last Tuesday night in his victory speech. There haven’t been Hot Air BREAKING! headlines over those, and not at Drudge, but now that it’s Obama saying something similar to his friend Governor Patrick the Clinton water carriering conservatives are coming out of the woodwork screaming WE GOT YOU!!!

This last minute “controversy” is much to do about nothing. Much like Drudge has turned into the HillaryClintonSympathyReport lately it’s starting to happen here too…. this site is becoming ‘Hillary Clinton’s Hot Air, we can’t get our fill’

Limerick on February 18, 2008 at 10:31 AM

Oh ye of little faith in the Big Old Dog:

WAR OVER WORDS: CLINTON TEAM ACCUSES OBAMA OF ‘PLAGIARISM’