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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Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation magazine, told Chris Matthews today on Hardball that Sen. Barack Obama’s plagiarism scandal should not have been covered on the program because, she feels, it doesn’t matter to the common person. An incredulous Matthews responded that she should ask Sen. Joe Biden whether these kind of issues matter — a reference to Biden being forced to quit his bid for the presidency in 1987 after he plagiarised a speech. Pat Buchanan, a guest on the show, said that he felt this was a “bad day” for Obama, and that his character will likely be called into question more often now in the campaign.

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“I really don’t think this is too big of a deal,” Sen. Barack Obama said this afternoon to a reporter in Ohio after he seemingly admitted to plagiarizing a 2006 speech by Gov. Deval Patrick.

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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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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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