September 9, 2008 - 2:49pm
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UPDATED: Obama borrows line from Tom Toles cartoon (video)

Barack Obama borrowed parts of this Tom Toles cartoon while on the campaign trail.: (www.WashingtonPost.com)Barack Obama borrowed parts of this Tom Toles cartoon while on the campaign trail.: (www.WashingtonPost.com)"Maybe what they're saying is, 'Watch out George Bush,'" Obama said as he campaigned in Terre Haute, Ind. on Saturday. "Except for economic policies, and tax policies, and energy policies, and health care policies, and education policies, and Karl Rove-style politics -- except for all that, we're really going to bring change to Washington! We’re really going to shake things up!"

Great line. Too bad it came from Friday's cartoon by Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles.

Asked about using the borrowed line, Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki told the Boston Globe Obama used Toles's lines unwittingly, after having them pointed out by a friend who didn't mention the source.

"This came to Senator Obama from a friend who didn't indicate where he had gotten it from, but the questions it raises certainly continue to ring true," Psaki told the Boston Globe. "He did not know it was from a cartoon and now that he does he will certainly credit the cartoonist."

Obama used the line again while campaigning today in Michigan, as well as during an interview on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, both times properly crediting Tom Toles from The Washington Post.

UPDATE: Here's the video of Obama campaigning in Terre Haute, Ind. on Saturday (the comment begins at 2:12 in)


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Comments

Light on specifics, there


You couldn't include where and when Obama first used the line? Why not?

09/09/08 6:28 pm

Grr. is an idiot


"Obama said as he campaigned in Terre Haute, Ind. on Saturday..."

"UPDATE: Here's the video of Obama campaigning in Terre Haute, Ind. on Saturday (the comment begins at 2:12 in)"

A little light on the reading comprehension, huh Mr. Grrrrr?

09/10/08 3:57 pm

They Just Don't Get It!!!


Liberals are so pompous that they think ANY policy other than a TOTALLY IDIOTIC one like MORE TAXES, is somehow a BUSH plan!!! Wake up and supply some oxygen to those two brain cells fighting one another... It's called CONSERVATISM!!! And the basic policy of LOWER taxes, MORE Economic stimulous and LESS government and SERIOUS ACTION on defense is NOT just a BUSH thing!!! HELLOOOOOO... Knock, Knock, ANYBODY HOME UP THERE!!!???? Read the Conservative party basic beliefs and structures and then get this BUSH thing out of your head!! The guys going home in 5 months!!! GHEEZ already!! 50 years from now when TRUE history writes itself, Bush will be remembered as a GREAT leader, but for now we have Liberals who can't do anything but raise taxes and Bitch!! PROOF POSITIVE of DEMOCRATIC CHANGE!!!! Look at the House and Senate and their ALL TIME LOW in the polls of 9%!!! Like we need more Democrats to do worse!!??? Go back into the hole from whence you came!!!

09/10/08 10:19 pm

toles cartoon


I thought plaigarizing or "borrowing lines" was a serious offense. Isn't that what got Biden into trouble in his presidentail bid years ago? In Obama's original speech (lipstick on a pig) using the remarks, he sure sounded like he meant for us
to think they were his words. Why didn't he credit the friend who shared them if he didn't see the cartoon himself? I saw it here yesterday.

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