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Top Clinton campaign officials Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson are holding another conference call with reporters now. Wolfson is pointing to a “pattern” of alleged plagiarism by Barack Obama, suggesting that reporters look at a blog entry by ABC’s Jake Tapper which suggests another example of Obama lifting material from Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.

Well, Obama is doing it again.

Campaigning in Terre Haute, Ind. on Saturday, Barack Obama, mocking claims by John McCain and Sarah Palin that they will challenge their Republican Party if elected, got off a pretty good line. “Maybe what they’re saying is, ‘Watch out George Bush,’” Obama said with sarcasm, according to NBC News. “Except for economic policies, and tax policies, and energy policies, and health care policies, and education policies, and Karl Rove-style politics — except for all that, we’re really going to bring change to Washington! We’re really going to shake things up!”

It wasn’t Obama’s line, though. It came from Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles, whose cartoon Friday featured these words along with a drawing of McCain and Sarah Palin in front of the White House: “Watch out, Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and Supreme Court appointments and Rove-style politics, we’re coming in there to shake things up!” (See the cartoon here.)

But, an Obama spokeswoman said that he used the lines “unwittingly.”

Right.

In fact, it is being discovered that Barack Obama like his Vice President Joe Biden uses other people’s words often. He plagiarizes egregiously.

Examples:

1. Patrick In 2006: “I Am Not Asking Anybody To Take A Chance On Me. I Am Asking You To Take A Chance On Your Own Aspirations.” (Gov. Deval Patrick, Remarks At The Massachusetts Democratic Party Convention, Boston, MA, 6/3/06)

• Obama In 2007: “I Am Not Asking Anyone To Take A Chance On Me. I Am Asking You To Take A Chance On Your Own Aspirations.” “But you see, I am not asking anyone to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.” (DeWayne Wickham, Op-Ed, “Obama Tries To Allay Race, Safety Concerns Of Blacks,” USA Today, 11/6/07)

2. Patrick In 2006: “We Can Disagree With Each Other Without Being Disagreeable.” “By showing that we can disagree with each other without being disagreeable.” (Gov. Deval Patrick, Remarks On Election Night At Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, 11/6/06)

• Obama In 2008: “We Can Disagree With Each Other Without Being Disagreeable.” (Anna Webb and Brian Murphy, “Obama Wows, Inspires Crowd At Packed Arena: ‘And They Told Me There Were No Democrats In Idaho,’” The Idaho Statesman, 2/3/08)

3. John Edwards’ September 2003 Announcement Speech: “I haven’t spent most of my life in politics, but I’ve spent enough time in Washington to know how much we need to change Washington.” (Sen. John Edwards, Remarks Announcing Presidential Campaign, Robbins, NC, 9/16/03)

• Obama February 2007 Announcement Speech: “I know I haven’t spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I’ve been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks Announcing Presidential Campaign, Springfield, IL, 2/10/07)

4. John Edwards In 2004: “Hard work should be valued in this country, so we’re going to reward work, not just wealth.” (Former Sen. John Edwards, Remarks To The Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA, 7/28/04)

• Obama In 2008: “We should not just respect wealth in this nation. We should be respecting work.” (CNN’s “Newsroom,” 1/5/08)

5. John Edwards In 2004: “Reject The Tired, Old, Hateful, Negative Politics Of The Past … Embrace The Politics Of Hope.” “[T]he American people, you can reject the tired, old, hateful, negative politics of the past. And instead you can embrace the politics of hope, the politics of what’s possible because this is America, where everything is possible.” (Former Sen. John Edwards, Remarks To The Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA, 7/28/04)

• Obama Swiped This Theme Urging Voters To “Break Out Of The Politics Of The Past.” “Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday it is difficult … ‘to break out of the politics of the past,’ when the country was badly divided and Democrats lost control of Congress …” (Charles Babington, “Obama Ties Clinton To Divisive ‘Politics Of The Past,’” The Associated Press, 2/10/08)

6. Obama Has Even Swiped One Of Edwards’ Key Jokes From The Stump. “Even a new Obama laugh line — joking about pharmaceutical ads that ‘have all these people running around in the fields and stuff’ - evokes an anecdotal staple of Edwards’s 2004 ‘Two Americas’ stump speech used to ridicule the marketing budgets of pharmaceutical companies. ‘I love the ads,’ Edwards said then. ‘Buy their medicine, take it and the next day you and your spouse will be skipping through the fields.’ Obama wins the biggest response when he punches up the Edwards observation with a slyly racy kicker.” (Sasha Issenberg, “Obama Borrows From Edwards,” The Boston Globe’s “Political Intelligencer” Blog, www.boston.com, 1/5/08)

And, then there is Joe Biden who plagiarized his way through law school and his first Presidential race.

• In 1987, Biden Plagiarized Speech By British Labor Leader Neil Kinnock. “Kinnock told of ancestors who played football after long days underground in the mines, who recited poetry and paved the way for him to become the first in his family to attend college. When he saw a tape of Kinnock in action, Biden said, … ‘it was a connect. I mean, I could tell how that man felt. That’s how I feel.’ So he used it - changing the names but little else - at a debate last month in Iowa.” (John Harwood, “Biden’s Way With Words Now Seems To Be A Liability,” St. Petersburg Times, 9/20/87)

• “But Instead Of Crediting Kinnock, He Told The Audience He Thought Of It On The Way To The Debate.” (John Harwood, “Biden’s Way With Words Now Seems To Be A Liability,” St. Petersburg Times, 9/20/87)

• Biden Acknowledged Kinnock Speech Didn’t Fit His Circumstances “Perfectly.” “Biden acknowledged Kinnock’s language didn’t fit his family perfectly. His father was in used car sales, his grandfather was a mining engineer. But he had been told and ‘assumed’ that other relatives had worked in the mines. And, ‘to make it clear,’ members of his mother’s family had, indeed, been to college.” (John Harwood, “Biden’s Way With Words Now Seems To Be A Liability,” St. Petersburg Times, 9/20/87)

• Biden Withdrew From The 1988 Presidential Race Under Charges Of Plagiarism And Embellishment, Saying, “Now The Exaggerated Shadow Of Those Mistakes Has Begun To Obscure The Essence Of My Candidacy And The Essence Of Joe Biden.” (”Biden Bows Out Of Race, Blames His Own Mistakes,” Los Angeles Times, 9/23/87)

• Biden Was Also Accused Of Plagiarism At Syracuse Law School. “[B]iden soon ran into trouble at Syracuse Law. He was accused of plagiarism after lifting five pages from a law review article for a course paper. But his pleading - ‘I implore you, don’t take my honor’ - convinced the dean to let him stay in school, take the course over, and wipe the slate clean.” (John Harwood, “Biden’s Way With Words Now Seems To Be A Liability,” St. Petersburg Times, 9/20/87)

• Biden Admitted Some Of His Claims About Academic Achievements Were Untrue. “Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., his Democratic presidential campaign battered by charges of plagiarism in his campaign speeches and in a law school paper, admitted yesterday that some of his boasts about his college academic achievements were untrue, including the claim that he had finished in the top half of his class in law school.” (James R. Dickenson, “Biden: Academic Claims ‘Inaccurate,’” The Washington Post, 9/22/87)

Sheesh. Do Americans REALLY want cheats and liars as our President and Vice President?

McCain’s current 49% share of the vote is his best performance in Gallup tracking to date. His five-point lead is his best since early May, when he led Obama by six points (48% to 42%). Obama has led throughout much of the campaign, and has led nearly all of the time since he clinched the Democratic nomination in early June. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.)

Is this surge in the polls merely a Republican National Convention bounce or a REAL trend? Guess we will all find out in a few weeks but it is better to be up five than down ten at this stage of the campaign.

The race is on…..

Who was behind this smear?

Shocker it was Barack Obama supporters, Dick and Sharon Price.

Democrat political operatives put up the smear so Obama’s campaign could claim plausible deniability.

Oops guess a little transparency on this bull shit even caused Daily Kos to take the smear down.

Hillary Clinton may be the most obvious choice to throw into the ring against the new darling of American politics, Sarah Palin, but the failed Democratic presidential candidate is refusing the job.

“We’re not going to be anybody’s attack dog against Sarah Palin,” a Clinton insider said yesterday.

It’s an extraordinary act of hubris from a woman whose success in exposing Barack Obama’s weakness in working-class Democratic states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana may have been the reason that John McCain chose a gun-toting, God-loving mother of five as his running mate.

Although she is 60 and unlikely to have another shot at the White House, Clinton is apparently concerned that she would appear ungenerous to the Republicans’ first female vice-presidential candidate if she were to go after her.

It is a rationale that will fuel the belief - lingering among Democrats since Al Gore’s failed 2000 presidential run - that the Clintons always put themselves before their party.

It was certainly a feeling reinforced during the death-by-a-thousand-cuts primaries when both Clinton and her husband, Bill, launched numerous vicious attacks on Obama even when it was clear that she could not win her party’s nomination.

Hillary and Bill Clinton will do NOTHING for you , Barack - except help you lose.

Geraghty has the money quote:

As it is, he’s asking her, “hey, sorry about that bitter primary thing, calling your husband racist, and the lack of campaign debt relief. Could you do me a favor and alienate a certain portion of your voters, obliterate your newfound respect from some corners of the right, and incinerate your chance to head a Democratic ticket in 2012 by making a kamikaze run at America’s newest sweetheart, in order to save my tuchus? Thanks.”

Plus, the Clinton Cabal has not EVEN started working on destroying Obama’s campaign. Hillary will take on Sarah Palin directly in 2012 when she runs for the vacated Presidency of a retiring John McCain.

In the meantime, Hillary will keep her powder dry and concentrate on sinking the Obamessiah.

Michelle Malkin has EVEN more reasons why. Look at the inside:

Say good night, Gracie and dump this BIASED rag.