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Did Hillary plagiarize tonight's speech from Obama?

Tue May 13, 2008 at 09:04:27 PM PDT

We all remember Hillary's accusations of  "Change you can Xerox".

Is it time to accuse Hillary of stealing lines - but not from one of her co-chairs, from her opponent:

Hillary tonight:

For me, this election isn't about who's in or who's out or who's up or who's down. It's about the common threads that tie us together - rich and poor, young and old, black and white, Latino and Asian, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. We are united by common values. We all want a better world for our children, and we want the best for our country. And we are committed to putting a Democrat back in the White House.

Barack  - March 18, 2008 (the "More Perfect Union" speech):

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old -- is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. But what we know -- what we have seen - is that America can change. That is true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope - the audacity to hope - for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

Hmmm....

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