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I'm troubled that the "plagiarism" message might be a subtle attempt at equating Obama with MLK and marginalizing him racially, as was attempted through a similar equation to Jesse Jackson in South Carolina.
1. I think that MLK might be the kind of comparison that most people would happily accept.
2. But I agree: we might be seeing the beginning of one of those different-standards-for-different-folks deals--as in, Here's a great excuse for Chris and Bill and Sean to bring up whether African-Americans with their MLK dissertations and hippity-hop get by with this kind of petty theft (and Hey! That reminds all of you [white] voters that Obama is sort of black, doesn't it?)