<p>Obama is now the projected winner in Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Well, with the Clintons, the meaning of **is **might be disputed!</p>
<p>Do you think Obama will start his acceptance speech with, “I have a dream …” :)</p>
<p>Obama and Patrick are friends. Patrick said recently that he wasn’t surprised that Obama used language that was similar to his. I don’t think that the standards for political stump speeches are the same as they are for academic research papers. Politicans recycle the same phrases quite often–it’s the nature of the beast.</p>
<p>Ooops. Too bad the Clinton campaign made such a big deal about the Obama “plagiarism”. It seems that old Bill Clinton got caught! My. My. He who casts stones. ( I did NOT make that up by the way…:D)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/us/politics/20speeches.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1203519650-FmlRB/6VvZHZivhBPVxwCQ[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/us/politics/20speeches.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1203519650-FmlRB/6VvZHZivhBPVxwCQ</a></p>
<p>And let us never forget Blair Hornstine. (sp?)</p>
<p>I wonder what she is up to.</p>
<p>If this happened to Hillary, she would publicly fire her speechwriter.</p>
<p>“If this happened to Hillary, she would publicly fire her speechwriter”</p>
<p>Did you guys see the second half of this kerfluffle? Senator Clinton said that it was a media driven charge, but then members of the media came out and said this issue had been brought forth during a conference call with the media held by Senator Clinton’s campaign. Oops!</p>
<p>From ABC News:</p>
<p>"New Pro-Clinton 527 to Ding Obama in Ohio</p>
<p>February 20, 2008 9:33 AM</p>
<p>ABC News has learned that a group of Democratic politicos have set up a new independent 527 organization called the American Leadership Project (ALP) with the express purpose of helping Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, beat Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, in Ohio, and possibly Texas and Pennsylvania as well.</p>
<p>Free from campaign finance rules, ALP will not be legally permitted to coordinate with the Clinton campaign, but it is clearly intended to help her.</p>
<p>The group is targeting through TV ads, mail, and phone communications white women under 50 in the Ohio area – specifically Cleveland, Columbus, Youngstown, Charleston (WV), Wheeling- Steubenville, Zanesville, and Parkersburg (WV)."</p>
<p>"Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic this morning first reported that a pro-Clinton 527 had been set up. Per Ambinder, the group is “canvassing Clinton donors for pledges of up to $100,000 in the hope of raising at least $10M by the end of next week…”</p>
<p>There were 529 groups for Obama as well. There were couple in CA, and the most famous in his camp is in moveon.org.</p>
<p>Get with the program, and contribute! :)</p>
<p>(I’m sorry your candidate lost - at this point she is just stretching out the process and hoping - oh, there’s that word again - that he gets a heart attack or somethun.)</p>
<p>“(I’m sorry your candidate lost - at this point she is just stretching out the process and hoping - oh, there’s that word again - that he gets a heart attack or somethun”</p>
<p>My very liberal-democrat friend keeps joking that one of Senator Obama’s kids’ teddy bears is going to be kidnapped and he will drop out.</p>
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<p>You can’t even begin to compare moveon.org to this new 529. Moveon.org has been in existence long before the current primary races, and addresses issues way beyond the presidential elections.</p>
<p>ALP’s sole purpose is to promote Hillary, and to do so by soliciting donations from people who have already capped out at the $2300 limit.</p>
<p>Not to be picky, but moveon and ALP are 527s – 529s are educational funds.</p>
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That thought actually crossed my mind, and I forgot to doiuble-check it. Thanks for the clarification. Now hopefully when I’m talking about 529s, I won’t refer to them as 527s!</p>