Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Clinton Claims the Media are Spreading the Plagiarism Claims..

View the story by Mike Allen: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8594.html

Key Points:
-Clinton tells a Honolulu-based ABC affiliate that the media, not her campaign, are spreading the Obama plagiarism stories.
-A Clinton campaign memo includes links to videos of Obama and Patrick's speeches.

Obama, Clinton have issues with Spanish

Read the article here: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/02/fiesta-or-siest.html

Obama: siesta ≠ fiesta
Clinton: Si Se PuedE, not Si Se PuedA.

Monday, February 18, 2008

How Hillary Can Win

The article is found at: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8581.html

Notes:
-Clinton has a way to the nomination, but has a very slim margin of error.
-She needs to sweep Ohio, Texas, and Pennslyvania.
-Needs to appeal to superdelegates.

Clinton Camp Says Clinton can copy Others' Rhetoric

The Clinton camp would neither confirm nor deny that Clinton has copied others' rhetoric.

Wolfson, the campaign's communications director, said it wouldn't be as big of a deal if Clinton copied another politician's speech, because "Senator Clinton is not running on the strength of her rhetoric."

For the Clinton camp to claim that Obama is plagiarising but Clinton can plagiarize is a bad, bad, bad thing to say.

NY SEIU sending Volunteers to Wisconsin


Email Sent to NY SEIU members.

Clinton's Michigan Camp Co-Chair, Joel Ferguson, on Red-State Delegates.

Joel Ferguson, a Michigan superdelegate, makes a comment that will by no means help Clinton's campaign. It's always a bad, bad idea to tick off a section of an electorate, especially with some coming up (TEXAS!).
"Superdelegates are not second-class delegates. The real second-class delegates are the delegates that are picked in red-state caucuses that are never going to vote Democratic."

Clinton camp accuses Obama of Plaigarism

For the story go here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8570.html

A few key points:
-"Obama apparently ad-libbed the remark, which was not in his text."
-Obama camp accuses Clinton of stealing lines from him, including his slogans.
-From an Obama press conference: "He has occasionally used lines of mine. I have occasionally used some words of his. I know Sen. Clinton has used words of mine as well. I don’t think that is something that workers here are concerned about," he said, adding that "I'm sure I should have" given credit to Patrick."
-Obama says: "I really don’t think this is too big of a deal."

Deval Patrick's Speech


Obama's Similar Speech: