Desperate times must call for desperate measures!?!!

Well well well, when your back is against the wall I guess it becomes necessary to stoop to extreme lows in order to tarnish your opponent. As is the case with Sen. Hillary Clinton this week. She is in the fight of her political career and it isnt looking so good for her. While you can not count her out at all, she is most definitely down right now. So in a desperate attempt to pull herself up and tear Barack Obama down, her campaign puts out this whole thing about him using the words of another in his speech.

To start, the words he used were of the MA Governor who is indeed a friend and supporter of Obama. The same governor defends Obama's use of the three words. So where is the controversy? And as Barack stated in his response, he noticed Sen. Clinton has used some of his words as well!

I want to say for the record, the politics that Hillary Clinton is playing right now is the key reason why we need to put Obama in office. This kind of dirty, old school, mudslinging politics has gotten us no where in the past. Furthermore, this is the kind of desperation to win that got GW Bush the win in Florida! Everyone wants to win; you wouldn't get in the race otherwise. But when do you get to a point where integrity will not be compromised for the sake of the win?

Article is below:
February 19, 2008
Clinton Camp Says Obama Plagiarized in Speech
By JEFF ZELENY
NILES, Ohio — With the next round of voters set to weigh in on the Democratic presidential race, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign on Monday accused Senator Barack Obama of committing plagiarism in a weekend speech. Mr. Obama dismissed the charge as absurd and desperate.
Mr. Obama told reporters he should have credited Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, a friend, for a passage in a speech he delivered on Saturday in Milwaukee. But Mr. Obama said his rival was “carrying it too far.”
“Let’s see,” Mr. Obama said. “I’ve written two books. I wrote most of my speeches. I would add that I noticed Senator Clinton, on occasion, has used words of mine as well.”
The exchange injected a fresh dose of contention into the bitter fight for the Democratic nomination. Mr. Obama said two of his standard lines — “It’s time to turn the page” and “Fired up and ready to go” — have made their way into Mrs. Clinton’s remarks in recent weeks.
As Mrs. Clinton campaigned in Wisconsin in advance of the primary there on Tuesday, one of her top advisers, Howard Wolfson, convened a conference call with reporters to accuse Mr. Obama of plagiarizing Mr. Patrick’s remarks from a 2006 campaign appearance.
Mr. Wolfson said it was important for voters to know that Mr. Obama’s rhetoric, at least in this instance, was not original.
During a news conference here, Mr. Obama said he and Mr. Patrick “trade ideas all the time.” Asked if he should have given credit to Mr. Patrick, he said, “I’m sure I should have,” but he said he doubted that voters were concerned by the dust-up.
“I’m happy to give Deval credit, as I give to a lot of people for spurring all kinds of ideas,” he said. “But I think it’s fair to say that everything we’ve been doing and generating excitement and the interest that people have had in the elections is based on the core belief in me that we need change in America.”
The controversy arose after Mr. Obama, of Illinois, delivered a speech at a Democratic Party dinner in Wisconsin. He responded to criticism from Mrs. Clinton, of New York, who argued that Mr. Obama might deliver smooth speeches, but that she was better prepared to solve problems.
“Don’t tell me words don’t matter,” he said in his remarks. “ ‘I have a dream.’ Just words? ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.’ Just words? ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself.’ Just words? Just speeches?”
The passage was similar to one used by Mr. Patrick in response to similar criticism.
Mr. Patrick said he and Mr. Obama discussed the argument in advance and he encouraged his friend to defend himself the same way he did during his race in 2006.