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In a press conference call on Monday, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s communications director Howard Wolfson noted that Sen. Barack Obama has used Gov. Deval Patrick’s words “without attribution.” Sen. Joe Biden was forced to drop out of the 1988 campaign for president for partaking in a similar practice.
“Sen. Obama is running on the strength of his rhetoric and the strength of his promises and, as we have seen in the last couple of days, he’s breaking his promises and his rhetoric isn’t his own,” Wolfson said. “When an author plagiarizes from another author there is damage done to two different parties. One is to the person he plagiarized from. The other is to the reader.”
Rep. Jim McGovern has released the following statement: “…When Sen. Obama uses [those words] and doesn’t credit their origin, those same words seem less inspiring…”
