When Obama Plagiarizes It’s Called “Repackaging”
Aaron Goldstein
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July 20, 2016, 10:18 am
I suppose we can’t be surprised that Melania Trump is held to a higher standard than President Obama when it comes to speeches.
Amidst the outrage over Mrs. Trump’s speech containing passages of Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC remarks, it was pointed out that during that same year Hillary Clinton had taken Mrs. Obama’s husband to task for lifting portions from Deval Patrick’s stump speech during his 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign.
Caught red-handed you might think.
No, when Obama plagiarizes a speech, it’s called “repackaging” as suggested in this Boston Magazine article by Spencer Buell. The article’s tag line reads, “There’s no real comparison between the RNC fiasco and Barack Obama’s re-packaging of Deval Patrick’s words in 2008.” Buell further explains:
Patrick, a friend and booster of the candidate, would later come to Obama’s aid and dismiss the allegations as just another pointless line of attack. Patrick even encouraged him to use the phrases, Obama said at the time, while claiming to regret not citing his source.
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