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February 19, 2008 | 4:12 p.m

Earlier today, Jake Tapper noted that there was another instance when Barack Obama used words that Deval Patrick previously said:

Patrick in June 2006, at the Massachusetts Democratic party convention: "I am not asking anybody to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations."

Obama one year later, as quoted in USA Today: "I am not asking anyone to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations."

Here are clips of the quotes in question, brought to our attention by an interested party:


Tapper also notes that there was an instance, about a month later, when Obama used this line and did credit Patrick.
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