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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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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.