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UPDATE, 1 a.m.: Joe Biden is the vice presidential candidate on the Obama side. Some Republicans are already calling it the plagiarism ticket. And even some PUMAs, too. FOX News: Biden had a stuttering problem.

ORIGINAL: One of Chet Edwards’ staffers has apparently relocated to Chicago to work for the Obama camp. Which means nothing, of course. Or everything. We shall see.

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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…”

Earlier: Obama Caught Plagiarizing 2006 Speech?

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Big Head DC has discovered alarming similarities between a speech made by Sen. Barack Obama on February 16 while campaigning for president in Wisconsin and an October 2006 speech made by Deval Patrick, the current Democratic governor of Massachusetts. The coincidences would seem to indicate that Obama copied several lines and linguistic speech patterns from Patrick’s “Just Words” speech for Obama’s own “Words Matter” speech. Indeed, words do matter. And they matter even more when they are one’s own words.

The two speeches can be compared, in all their eerie detail, via YouTube:

Deval Patrick’s 2006 “Just Words” speech (October 15, 2006):

And Barack Obama’s “Words Matter” speech (February 16, 2008):

Plagiarizing a speech during a presidential campaign was enough to end Sen. Joe Biden’s first bid for the presidency. From Wikipedia:

In 1987, Joe Biden ran as a Democratic presidential candidate. When the campaign began, he was considered a frontrunner because of his moderate image. However, the campaign ended when he was accused of plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock, then-leader of the British Labour Party. Though Biden had correctly credited the original author in all speeches but one, the one where he failed to make mention of the originator was caught on video. In the video Biden is filmed repeating a stump speech by Kinnock, with only minor modifications.

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