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Plagiarizing Change

Tom Toles – Washington Post, September 5th, 2008 [1]:

Watch out, Mr. Bush!  With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and Supreme Court appointments and Rove-Style politics, we’re coming in there to shake things up!

Barack Obama – Lebanon, VA, September 9th, 2008 [2]:

Watch out, George Bush. Except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics … we’re really gonna shake things up in Washington.

Plagiarism – Dictionary.com [3]:

The unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.