Ethics

Are Those Your Words, Sen. Clinton?

By Ed Brayton

So I was watching the debate between Clinton and Obama last night and I was just stunned to see Hillary Clinton still trying to push that idiotic plagiarism argument. Could they possibly believe it's helping their campaign at this point? Unfortunately, Obama didn't make the argument he should have made. When she delivered that stupid line that "if your candidacy is going to be about words, they ought to be your own words", Obama should have immediately said, "Do you write all your own speeches? Do you not employ speechwriters and polling companies that help you craft your message and frame issues for the public?" There is no answer to that. She either says no, which everyone knows is a lie, or she says yes and it becomes obvious that she's full of shit on this issue. When she delivered that pathetically obvious line "this isn't change you can count on it's change you can xerox" he should have immediately asked which one of her campaign advisers wrote that line.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 22, 2008 (boomark / email).