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Hillary Clinton copies Barack Obama's chants.

By Ann Althouse

Yesterday, I was listening to the radio ? XM's "POTUS" channel ? and I heard Hillary Clinton giving a speech at a rally. I was surprised to hear the crowd start chanting "yes we can." "Yes we can" is a chant that Barack Obama very conspicuously got started the night of the New Hampshire primary. I couldn't imagine why Clinton or her supporters would think it is to their advantage to evoke Barack Obama like that.

And the weird thing is, she's ripped off his slogan before:

An emailer tells me that the Clinton chanters aren't saying "yes we can," but "yes she can." A news report confirms it:

Throughout the rally, supporters waved Hillary signs, wore shirts with logos such as, "Got experience?," and chanted, "Yes she can."

My emailer snarks:

[It] kind of sums up the difference between their two candidacies (hers is about her, his is about us).

That's funny, but in fact we are electing a President. "We" are not going to be doing the job, that one individual is. The only thing we are going to do is pick the person who will take over the immense job of running the country. So Hillary's phrase really is more apt. It's just lame to copy Barack. And she's done it (at least) twice. As we make our choice, it's true that experience counts, but so does judgment, and on this small point of copying chants, Hillary's judgment was poor.

Full post as published by Althouse on February 03, 2008 (boomark / email).