So you think this line is from a speech from Barack Obama?

“It’s time to put our cynicism down. Put it down. Stand with me and take that leap of faith. Because I’m not asking you to take a chance on me. I’m asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations. Take a chance on hope.”

Well it is but the same line was used first by Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick in his run for the statehouse. Now Governor for a little more than a year, Deval Patrick at the helm of Massachusetts has been nothing short of a “train wreck.” And, much like Senator Obama is doing, Patrick campaigned under little if any scrutiny, the electorate jumping on his soaring train of roaring rhetoric and inspiring message of hope for a better tomorrow, exactly the same style grassroots campaign that Senator Obama is mounting today. So what will the “train wreck” that is Obama likely to be if he were elected President? For that Charles Pierce in the Boston Globe offers some clues. And it isn’t odd that both Deval Patrick and Barack Obama share more in common than a speech writer, they also share the services of David Alexrod. And while a plagiarism controversy helped derail Senator Joe Biden’s candidacy for the U.S. presidency in the 1988 Presidential campaign for borrowing a speech from British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, apparently it is okay if you share the same strategist. After all what’s good for Massachusetts has to be good for the rest of the country.