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First off, do you really think every politician writes his own speeches? News flash: They all have speechwriters. Hillary has them. Obama has them. Deval Patrick, one of Obama's best friends and one of Obama's national campaign co-chair, called Obama last week and suggested that Obama use the lines in question. Deval sent Obama's staff a copy of the speech to use.
Second, the "plagiarism" story was invented, and pushed, by the Clinton campaign. And then Hillary Clinton looked right in the TV cameras and lied about her involvement in the fake "scandal."
Here's what she said today:
"It's not us making this charge, it's the media," Clinton told Honolulu television station KITV Tuesday. "The media is finally examining my opponent which I think is important. We're trying to pick a president, someone for the toughest job in the world."
Here's what the Associated Press reports about Clinton's lie:
"Any suggestion that the story had a life of its own, apart from the Clinton campaign, is disingenuous.... Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson held an hourlong conference call about it Monday and repeated many of the charges during another call Tuesday."
Congratulations, you've just been pwned by the Clinton spin machine.
