By: Emily Vaughan Barack Obama is defending himself against the Clinton campaign's accusations of plagiarism, saying that an exchange of phrases is OK, says Peter Slevin at washingtonpost.com's The Trail. According to Obama, Massachusetts Governor Devel Patrick encouraged him to use the lines about the power of words, and that the governor also used Obama's catchphrase "Yes we can."
Besides, as Jeff Zeleny at The New York Times' The Caucus says, Obama pointed out that Hillary also borrowed some on his own words such as "It's time to turn the page" and "fired up and ready to go." Obama just says its no big deal.
Hillary Clinton pulled out the big guns in Wisconsin, telling supporters in Kenosha that she had once shot a duck on a hunting trip, says the L.A. Times' Andrew Malcolm on Top of the Ticket. Clinton used this fact to lead into talk about preventing school shootings while protecting gun owners' rights.
Today's Wisconsin and Hawaii primaries are important for both parties: Clinton is looking to break Obama's winning streak, and McCain is looking for a decisive victory over Huckabee to stop the talk that he hasn't locked up the nomination. But the race in Wisconsin is getting close, at least for the Democrats says Jill Lawrence at USA Today's On Politics. The American Research Group poll puts Clinton ahead by six points, but Public Policy Polling has Obama ahead by 13.
McCain got a boost yesterday from a Bush, but not the president. Bush "41" endorsed the Arizona senator, touting his "conservative values." Frank James at the Chicago Tribune's The Swamp says it is unsure how the moderate Bush the Elder, who was attacked by many conservatives for raising taxes as a budget-deficit cutting measure, will help McCain who already has a lock on Republican moderates, but needs help to reach out to conservatives.
Still fighting off fake rumors that he is Muslim, Obama distributed handbills to Wisconsin voters, reaffirming his Christian beliefs, similar to the ones he used in South Carolina, says Sasha Issenberg at the Boston Globe's Political Intelligence.
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