Loved it when Barack said ...

[LiberalAndProud]

"This is where we start getting into silly season in politics. …

"What we shouldn’t be spending time doing is tearing each other down, we should be spending time lifting the country up.”



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[Bicoastal]

1. D'oh

beat me to it.

[Horse with no Name]

2. I think he stole that from John Edwards when Edwards was scolding

Hillary and Obama for being so childish.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. I heard many echoes of John Edwards in the debate

from both candidates.

[Benhurst]

4. Plagiarize -- don't let anything evade your eyes.

:rofl:

(just stolen from Tom Lehrer by me)

[casus belli]

5. I can't seem to find any words that haven't been used before...

I think my entire life has been a sham, full of borrowed words. Damn you plagiarism. Damn you straight to hell.

[Window]

8. LOL!

Peace:thumbsup:

[sandnsea]

6. Obama was using it last year

So I hope Edwards didn't use it after that.

http://www.barackobama.com/2007/12/27/remarks_of_senator_barack_obam_38.php

[TheDonkey]

7. He won it and she lost it there.

[flor de jasmim]

9. In a sense, most politics is plagiarism...

People find good ideas and build on them. There are times when credit should be given, but there are also moments when you want the sound of previously spoken words to echo in the ear of the public. "We hold these truths to be self-evident" -- how many times is Lincoln credited?? The speaker expects the audience to know where that comes from and to get into the spirit of it...

On the other hand, "it's personal for me" is not in the same category!