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Where have I heard this before?

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Based on Hillary’s criticism that Barack was offering nice speeches and no substance, I knew this was coming.

I think the original (if it was the original) was better than the cover version. I have no problem with shared rhetoric – especially given David Axelrod’s involvement with both campaigns – but does this does open up Barack for some criticism?  

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  1. “Sound Bites of Hope” in a You Tube world could be Obama’s undoing once it is edited to play back and forth with Deval’s. (And I agree Deval gave that speech better. As you might recall it was in reaction to attacks on his family and he kept his cool while I found Obama at the DPW sounding a bit shrill now that he has front runneritis.

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    p>The commercial ends with Deval’s first year record as the punch line (and the version of Political Hardball played in DC makes Beacon Hill look like AAA ball).

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    p>I found Hillary at the DPW dinner finding her stride again.

    • I note that Senator Obama looks remarkably grim in the final frames. It’s odd to end on that sort of crescendoing rhetoric and to look so glum.

      • Very familiar, but also word for word. I went to see Deval’s speech on the common where he first used “just words” and I saw Deval when Barack introduced him at Roxbury Community College where Deval also used “just words. I think it’s a brilliant piece of American political rhetoric and I think Obama should use every weapon at his disposal. I wonder if other people will find fault in this and I wonder if the right or even Hillary will call Barack unoriginal or perhaps worse due to this appropriation.  

      • I’ve been getting less of a boner hearing Obama’s speeches lately too.  Is he gonna be able to keep his exciting rock star act going till november, or are people gonna forget after two or three speeches what that intriguing hope was?  He’s starting to seem wooden and mummified to me all of a sudden, talking too slow and emptily, like a new friend that turns out to talk about the Red Sox all the time.  Move on.

  3. this must be a love bomb. What’s been funny to me this year is how much “appropriation” or “recycling” or “reappropriating”  or “love bombing” has been going on this cycle.  So far, the love has been most pronounced in ole Mittsy quick conversion to “Change We Can Believe In”, and Hillary Clinton’s “Yes. We. Will” but even cranky John McCain has shown the love and become “Ready to Lead on Day One” while he asks his crowd “Are You All Fired Up?!”  Ah, just another day when some candidates slam other candidates for their campaign rhetoric then steal it and use it for their own.  I guess one thing we can continue to count on is that hypocrisy and lack of shame will never be out of fashion in politics.

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    p>In Obama’s defense (and it’s a weak one given the word for word phrasing), at least he loves his friends and supporters who agree with him, and not the folks he opposes.  

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