Clinton's worst moment in last night's debate was the "change you can Xerox" line, which some soon-to-be-fired member of her staff clearly hoped would be a devastating soundbite. It, uh, wasn't. But Clinton's weakness on this plagiarism issue is amplified by two facts. Fist, by wide acclaim, her best moment of the night came towards the end, when she said, "You know, whatever happens, we're going to be fine. You know, we have strong support from our families and our friends. I just hope that we'll be able to say the same thing about the American people. And that's what this election should be about." That sounds a whole lot like a line John Edwards used to use, which went "What's not at stake are any of us. All of us are going to be just fine no matter what happens in this election. But what's at stake is whether America is going to be fine." Moreover, as Jason Zengerle reminds us, Clinton has written two books, both with ghostwriters, one in which she didn't even credit the ghostwrite in the acknowledgments, which seems like a rather worse sin than Obama grabbing a line from his buddy. So is this really the ground on which Clinton wants to make her final stand?
