From Politico:

On Tuesday afternoon, a rival campaign began circulating another pair of videos Obama echoing Patrick, who at the time was running for Massachusetts governor.

This time, Obama is reading from notes or a text. In the instance that drew a charge of plagiarism from Clinton’s campaign earlier this week, the senator was apparently ad-libbing — the remark did not appear in the text released by his campaign.

Deval Patrick on June 3, 2006:

“I am not asking anybody to take a chance on me. I’m asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.”

Barack Obama on Nov. 2, 2007

“I’m not just asking you to take a chance on me. I’m also asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.”

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From the New York Times today:

Senator Barack Obama adapted one of his signature arguments — that his oratory amounts to more than inspiring words — from speeches given by Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts during his 2006 campaign.

Earlier: Obama Caught Plagiarizing 2006 Speech?

MSNBC Downplays Obama Plagiarism Scandal

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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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