Obama and Race By DANIEL HENNINGER
The Democratic Party is undergoing the greatest seismic shift since Bill Clinton came out of Arkansas in 1992, and the press chooses to sacrifice trees this week to consider whether Barack Obama "plagiarized" some lines from Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts. There is an important story here. It has nothing to do with plagiarism.
In January, I happened across a piece by the Associated Press describing the close professional relationship between Obama and Patrick, who shared the same political consultant, David Axelrod. Indeed, back in April 2007, the Boston Globe's Scott Helman wrote a thorough and nuanced article on all this, noting that the two have known each other for a decade and trade ideas all the time. There is nothing the least bit shocking here.
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