Top advisers to Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of plagiarism Monday, the latest effort by her campaign to undermine the Illinois senator’s credibility. Obama shrugged off the criticism and noted Clinton has used his slogans, too.

Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson, during a conference call with reporters, pointed to a speech Obama delivered at a Democratic Party dinner in Wisconsin Saturday that lifted lines from an address by his friend, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.

"If your whole candidacy is about words, those words should be your own," Clinton herself told reporters during a late-evening campaign flight. "That’s what I think."

The Associated Press reported in January that Obama had borrowed ideas and speech points from Patrick, often without attribution. But with Obama now leading in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination — he won the last eight nomination contests — Clinton’s campaign is trying to chip away at the premise of his candidacy. Wisconsin votes on Tuesday.

"Don’t tell me words don’t matter," Obama told the Wisconsin audience, attempting to rebut Clinton’s oft-repeated charge that he is long on rhetoric and short on policy specifics. "’I have a dream’ — just words? ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ — just words? ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself’ — just words? Just speeches?"

Patrick, faced with similar charges from his GOP opponent, used nearly identical language during his 2006 governor’s race.

"’We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ — just words? Just words?" Patrick said. "’We have nothing to fear but fear itself’ — just words? ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.’ Just words? ‘I have a dream’ — just words?"

The accusations momentarily put Obama on the defensive and distracted from a tour in Ohio, where he hoped to focus on the economy. He shrugged off the criticism and noted that Clinton occasionally had borrowed language from him.

"I really don’t think this is too big of a deal," Obama said at a news conference. "When Senator Clinton says ‘It’s time to turn the page’ in one of her stump speeches or says she’s ‘fired up and ready to go,’ I don’t think that anybody suggests that she’s not focused on the issues that she’s focused on."

He acknowledged trading ideas with Patrick and said they had borrowed language from each other on occasion. Obama said he probably should have given Patrick credit, but said the oversight didn’t indicate a pattern of deception.

"I’ve written two books, wrote most of my speeches. So I think putting aside the question … in terms of whether my words were my own, I think that would be carrying it too far," Obama said.

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As Hillary Clinton braces for a predicted presidential primary sweep by Barack Obama along the banks of the Potomac Tuesday night, her campaign reportedly is scrambling to comfort anxious donors and superdelegates who fear her campaign may be slipping out of her hands.

The Clinton campaign held a phone conference Monday aimed at rallying the troops, but some of those on the call said afterward that there is unease among Clinton’s supporters over what could become a big losing streak once Tuesday’s results in Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C. are final, the New York Times reported.

If Obama sweeps the Potomac Primary, he will have won eight consecutive contests since Super Tuesday.

“She has to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she’s out,” an anonymous superdelegate who currently supports Clinton told the Times.

Those two states, as well as Rhode Island and Vermont, hold primaries on March 4.

Others said they’re now rethinking whether to support Clinton, saying they might “go with the flow” and support Barack Obama, if he continues to beat Clinton in the coming primaries.

Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns prepared to launch television ads in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday, and they added another debate to their schedule — Feb. 21 in Austin, Texas.

Meanwhile, Obama’s wave of momentum appears to be swelling — at least according to the polls.

New American Research Group surveys of 600 likely Democratic voters put Obama well ahead of Clinton in Maryland, where he leads 55 percent to 37 percent, and Virginia, where he leads 56 percent to 38 percent. Both leads are well beyond the polls’ 4-percent margin of error.

In the delegate race, 168 Democratic delegates are up for grabs in Tuesday’s primaries.

Obama stopped by a Dunkin’ Donuts in Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning with Mayor Adrian Fenty to pick up donuts and coffee to distribute to people holding campaign signs across the street.

Fenty, who’s supporting Obama, occasionally asked the crowd “Is D.C. for Obama?” and the crowd cheered in response.

Asked if he thought he’d win Tuesday, Obama said he never expects to win until he wins.

Obama was traveling late Tuesday to Wisconsin, which votes next week, along with Hawaii, where the Illinois senator grew up.

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The Hillary Clinton Accountability Project will shortly launch its fundraising drive to raise $500,000 to support the most important citizen’s legal initiative of 2008. The landmark civil fraud suit of Paul v Clinton et al which the California Supreme Court ordered to proceed against the Clintons, Grammys Producer Gary Smith and Clinton agent Jim Levin, will be set for trial and a discovery schedule at a special conference to be held in Los Angeles Superior Court on February 21, 2008.

The first law suit in American history to bring a President and a Senator to court for defrauding the Senator’s largest campaign donor and his public company will be set for trial and discovery at the Case Management Conference before Judge Munoz.  Discovery and depositions of key witnesses, including the Clinton family, Al Gore, Ed Rendell, Terry McAuliffe, Harold Ickes, Howard Wolfson, Kelly Craighead, Barbara Streisand, Brad Pitt, Larry King, Mike Wallace among an array of political and entertainment leaders, will present an inside look at a culture of corruption that will shock the public.

The history and significance of this lawsuit is featured in the internet phenomenon - documentary Hillary! Uncensored and in the court filings posted on the Hillary Clinton Accountability Project web site.

Because the expenses of discovery and trial preparation will be extraordinary as the efforts to expose wrongdoing by the Clinton hierarchy of the Democratic is fought desperately by the Clinton Washington pit bull legal team, they require the continued support of the tens of thousands of concerned citizens around the nation that have supported it since 2001 and all those Americans who are newly introduced to the biggest political scandal since Watergate.

Paul v Clinton has become and will be the first civil lawsuit to produce sworn testimony and evidence of the systemic corruption that the Clintons have infused into the Democratic Party and all branches of the federal government. Given the necessary resources and legal talent to use the legal tools now available, the illegalities directed by Hillary Clinton to win and keep her Senate seat will be irrefutable!

Contributions to support this case are being accepted online by the Hillary Clinton Accountability Project and questions or feedback may be directed by email to admin@ejaf.us.

Source: PeterPaul.com

By Monica Crowley 

Once upon a time, there was a Mythical First Black President who held court with his white Wife. They lorded over the land, until he was impeached and she bolted for the world’s greatest deliberative body.

Today, the Mythical First Black President is trying to help the Wife beat the Candidate who could be the Actual First Black President.

The Wife launched the first racial salvo, when she suggested that all Martin Luther King, Jr. did for civil rights was to "make speeches." To reinforce the point, she said, "It took a president (Lyndon Johnson) to get it done." Meaning: it was swell that King made some speeches and stuff, but it took the white guy in power to make it happen.

The Mythical First Black President then disrupted his welcome in Black Presidentville with a cranky tantrum: the campaign of the Candidate was "the biggest fairy tale" he’d ever seen.

Blacks around the country took offense that their Mythical Leader would dismiss the actual black candidate as a fantasy, so the Mythical First Black President took to the airwaves to try to clarify: he meant that the Candidate’s position on Iraq was a "fairy tale," not his candidacy. Most black audiences weren’t buying what the MFBP was selling this time.

Meanwhile, the Wife claimed that while the Candidate was an "inspirational speaker" (shorthand for a great preacher), he hadn’t "put in the spade work to be president."

The Rev. Al Sharpton must be too busy admiring his "Destroying Don Imus Award" to notice.

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Bill Clinton became visibly upset Wednesday over comments by a prominent South Carolina Democrat that compared the former president’s actions on the trail to those of infamous Republican strategist Lee Atwater.

In an interview with CNN’s Jessica Yellin, Dick Harpootlian, a former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party and a supporter of Barack Obama, said some of Bill Clinton’s recent remarks on the campaign trail were appeals based on race and gender. He said the comments were meant to "suppresses the vote, demoralize voters, and distort the record," and said they were "reminiscent of Lee Atwater."

Clinton sharply disputed the charge, and lashed out at Yellin for raising the question.

"You live for this. This hurts the people of South Carolina," he said. "Because the people of South Carolina come to these meetings and ask questions about what they care about. And what they care about is not what’s going to be in the news coverage tonight, because you don’t care about it.

"What you care about is this. And the Obama people know that. So they just spin you up on this and you happily go along. I mean, the people don’t care about this," he added. "They never ask about it. And you are determined to take this election away from them. And that’s not right. That is not right. This election ought to belong to those people who are out here asking questions about their lives."

Source:  CNN

RUDY Giuliani is no oil painting, nor is John McCain. Fred Thompson may have cracked it in Hollywood, but he’s hardly leading man material.

Barack Obama has those ears to contend with, while every time Joe Biden opens his mouth it’s like watching an old episode of Mr Ed. Even pretty boy John Edwards is starting to show signs of wear.

But according to the US’s leading radio shock jock, Rush Limbaugh, it all matters little for the male presidential candidates, because when men age they look "more authoritative, accomplished and distinguished".

What does matter, says Limbaugh, is that Hillary Clinton, who turned 60 in October, is starting to wrinkle.

So on Monday, on a radio show with an audience of 14.5 million, Limbaugh asked this question about the former first lady’s presidential prospects: "Will Americans want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?"

The inspiration for this misogynistic king hit, one that says much about the kind of attention Senator Clinton can expect if she eventually becomes the Democratic nominee, was an unflattering photograph of her taken on the campaign trail in freezing New Hampshire at the weekend.

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Please… do a Google Search for Clintons and Eschelon or Carnavoir

2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she was "deeply disturbed" to learn that the National Security Agency was data-mining phone records to track down terrorists.

"Like many Americans, I am deeply disturbed" over the NSA program, she said in a statement posted to her Senate web site.

"We all deserve to know why the NSA has blocked the Department of Justice from investigating the NSA’s domestic surveillance program and why it has created an enormous database of Americans’ phone records," she complained.

Mrs. Clinton suggested that using phone records to track down terrorists was unconstitutional, saying the latest NSA revelations "further demonstrate what happens to our Constitution, laws, and privacy when there is no meaningful congressional oversight of the president’s actions.

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Hillary’s comments on President Bush’s efforts to “connect the dots” is pathetic.

“Obviously, I support tracking down terrorists. I think that’s our obligation. But I think it can be done in a lawful way,” the New York Democrat said.

The irony in this statement is a joke! The Clinton’s never saw a law they didn’t want to break. President Bush is trying to protect this country… IF he had used this technology to listen in on the 9-11 terrorist we might have been able to break that group up - in the lease prevented them from boarding planes.

This is a losing issue for the blame America crowd! I am surprise Hillary “the smartest woman in the room” Clinton is falling into this loser issue.

“Their argument that it’s rooted in the Constitution inherently is kind of strange because we have FISA and FISA operated very effectively and it wasn’t that hard to get their permission,” she said.

Do a Google Search on Clinton and Echelon and tell me about domestic spying!

Bill Clinton, during his interview with ABC’s “Nightline” accused President George Bush of breaking the law. ” President Bush may have broken the law when he authorized the National Security Agency to conduct surveillance on U.S.-based terrorists”, said ex-president impeached Bill Clinton.

Clinton said President Bush would have been better off if he had followed established legal guidelines. “It seems to me that unless there’s a reason not to, we ought to use that surveillance court.”

Clinton said that when he was president, he always tried to work within the constraints of the law!

“My attitude was that once the Congress had spoken on it and given us tools that we needed, we used it, we used the law. It wasn’t anything I ever had any question to even think about because I felt that the court and the setup was more than enough to do what we needed to do,” he told “Nightline.”

Of course the impeached one was not asked about projects he started such as Echelon and Carnivore, two programs that monitored electronic communications of all Americans during his administration withouut authorization of anyone, not to mention the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court!

You see when Bill Clinton was snooping in on American’s the press and liberals ignored it, but after 9-11 and President Bush is monitoring TERRORISTS that are calling known suspecious number in the US he is breaking the law!