Hillary Steals John Edwards, "Solutions for America" Slogan

[Pryderi]

OMFG!

[wndycty]

1. She can get away with it. . .

. . .she is judged by a different standard, her own.

[sniffa]

2. Plagiarism!

It's all over the news shows. Every single one is on it. Whoopie can't shut up about it.

[bigtree]

3. she stole his charismatic smile too

and his signature wave. Damn her!!

[flyarm]

4. oh well ,Obama stole the rest of Johns platform long ago..eom

[Divernan]

5. From Reuters: New Clinton economic message has echoes of Edwards

That's the headline and here's the quote:

"Clinton is courting working-class voters with a new message of economic populism similar to the theme of John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator who dropped out of the Democratic race in January."
www.reuters.com/news/politics

Plagiarism is defined as copying some text and using it without indicating that it was copied or where it was copied from. Senator Edwards' populist positions are repeatedly laid out in his position papers, i.e., in writing. Has Clinton been saying: I got this message from John Edwards' platform and/or position papers?
Evidently not.

The more important issue to me is whether she can be trusted to actually follow through on the populism themes. Based on her past actions in office, I don't think so. In the long run, she has long, strong, deep ties to the moneyed groups, and she has a long history of centrism and triangulating. At this point, after her touted 35 years of (non-populist)experience, her message of economic populism is campaign rhetoric and no more.