Obama Plagiarism Scandal

Feb 19, 2008

Obama Plagiarism Scandal, is it plagiarism?

Categories: News

Written By: Rodel

Today the Clinton campaign launched a new attack showing how Barack plagiarised portion of Deval Patrick’s campaign speeches. Obama suggested that Deval allowed him to use his language because according to some source Obama and Patrick have said they are close friends and regularly share lines. Would this mean that he’s allowed to use Patrick’s lines?

Morever, in another strange twist to how the MSNBC network is covering the 2008 presidential elections, about ten minutes after 11:00 a.m. ET on Monday, an anchor briefly mentioned on-air the plagiarism controversy involving Sen. Barack Obama’s recycling of a 2006 speech by Gov. Deval Patrick.

But according to some sources (opovet) that what Obama did is not “plagiarism”. He did continued to explain it that “Those who are quick to level the charges seem to be trying to equate a political stump speech with a research paper. But they are not equivalent forms of communication. A research paper, by its very nature, has to be original, and any “borrowings” that are not footnoted with the source acknowledged are considered, with good cause, in all of Academia to be plagiarism, and god help anyone, from freshman to doctoral candidate, who gets nailed for doing it. I’ve spent enough time, both as a student and as a college instructor, in the Groves of Academe to know what I’m talking about.

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A political stump speech, to my way of thinking, is less like a research paper and more like a symphony. If you listen to both of them, you’ll see they contain the same kind of movements and pacing: adagio, allegro, allegro non tropo, etc. Neither a political stump speech nor a symphony is intended to inform; they are both intended to work at the emotional level.

The inclusion of bits and pieces from other orchestral works has a long and varied history in classical music, to the point where it even has its own name: “Musical quotation“. (See also From ancient Greece to John Williams: music has always been the same.)”

Or he’s doing it and defended Mr. Obama because he’s also a member of Barack Obama.

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