Reply #113: The Question is, why is news just now, I read this months ago, ...

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Along with the title and thoughts of the Audacity of Hope being drawn from a sermon by Jeremiah Wright.

When communicating precisely with words it is often near impossible to avoid certain phrases. Example, who was the first person to say nuclear detente, an english and french mixture.

That being said when someone uses an identical format to express identical thoughts, it is usually but not always prefaced by 'as so and so said'.
In this instance Obama pushed against the line of propriety, but in politics this isn't rare, when the same themes are presented over and over again.

Obama should be more concerned that all his lofty thoughts of cross isle communication and cooperation, his many themes of the need for change, opportunity for the poor, yada, yada, yada; without specifics and stated means of accomplishments, he plagiarizes the rhetoric and best intentions of countless politicians of the past, who didn't get the job done, or it wouldn't continue to be hot button rhetoric and issues.