Bloodless Coup

Well given that Obama's rhetoric is relatively praised it is a hit on one of his strengths. And they can used that. Though sure, as a general rule I think it's kind of a silly swipe to make. I mean are candidates supposed to refer to chapter and verse everyone they borrow a line from the Bible, Shakespeare, etc.?

And given the Clinton campaign's borrowing from the Obama and Edwards campaigns, it's all the more silly. But it might be effective in moving the views of a few.

But it might be effective in moving the views of a few.

And that's my point: you (generally) want to move as many as possible. You don't have unlimited tries (the press will only cover so many stories), so you want each of those attempts to be as effective as possible. This one is just silly. It won't move many people, and seems a waste of time (especially the night before an important primary).

As others have noted, I think this says something far worse about Hillary's staff/planning than it does about Obama.

Plagiarism from Deval Patrick, a major Obama supporter whose immediate response was, "We trade speech ideas all the time. There's nothing to this."

So much for her supposed advantage in managerial competence.

Well the bigger news of the day on the competence question is her failing to fill a full slate of PA delegates - which is kind of amazing, especially since Gov. Rendell supports her.

But I guess I'd follow up on my above comments by saying that if "the few" includes a few members of the media, at least she gets a good news cycle out of it.

mightn't we say that the bigger news of the day is that, after polling at +/- 5 points with obama right up to primary day, CNN has her down by 17 with 86% reporting? yeah, that sounds like much bigger news to me.

That would be news of the night, not the day. :)