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Austin, Texas: Hillary Clinton accused Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama of political plagiarism on Thursday night during a campaign debate and said he represented "change you can Xerox."
Speaking in Austin, Texas, Clinton said, "I think that if your candidacy is going to be about words, then they should be your own words. That's, I think, a very simple proposition. And, you know, lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in, it's change you can Xerox."
Obama dismissed the charge out of hand, adding in a campaign debate, "What we shouldn't be doing is tearing each other down, we should be lifting the country up."
He said, "The notion that I had plagiarised … I think, is silly, and ... you know, this is where we start getting into silly season, in politics, and I think people start getting discouraged about it."
The exchange marked an unusually pointed moment in an otherwise civil encounter in the days before March 4 primaries in Texas and Ohio - contests that even some of Clinton's supporters say she must win to sustain her campaign for the White House.
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