Brandon (not verified) says:

There was articles a while ago about how often Clinton has plagiarized Obama's speeches. What we are talking about now has to do with the similarities in a speech that defends the same ideas. The idea is that speech is powerful and to cast it off as "just" a speech is to discredit some of the great orators over time who have led this country to action. Obviously when you confront the idea that speeches are not important, you would use great speeches that have had a profound effect on the public and some of the more famous quotes from those speeches to drive the point home.

Please... Are you really going to say that Clinton or McCain don't consistently borrow rhetoric from other people's speeches? Someone was working a little too hard on this one.

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