Obama Echoes Patrick: It's Not Plagiarism, It's an Homage

Maybe it’s a mini-controversy/scandal that’s only making news because there are few developments to feed the news beast at the moment or maybe it’s an example of some lack of judgment that might just be important for a potential president.

At issue, the remarkable similarity between some recent Barack Obama speeches and those made by Massachusetts Governor and Obama supporter Deval Patrick

Watch the videos below and judge for yourself.

No big deal?

Just don't try to tell that to Joe Biden, who had to drop his first bid to become president in 1987 after it was discovered that he had copied lines from a speech made by British politician Neil Kinnock.

Viral Video Face Off: Preview of Obama vs McCain

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video that spreads like a virus across the internet may be worth more than a super bowl commercial.

Case in point, the "Yes, We Can" music video version where famous people form a musical duet with Barack Obama's stump speech.

If you haven't seen it, it's the first video below. If you have, you can go directly to the next one which is the McCain version. "Like Hope, just different."

For McCain. it's a reality check for an unavoidable reality of being the poster child for failed policies from the Iraq war to tax cuts for billionaires: The truth is out there and it hurts.