isn't she lovely?

"If your candidacy is going to be about words then they should be your own words," she said. "...Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in, it's change you can Xerox." - Hillary Rodham Clinton

i vividly remember from my communication law days in college that xerox fought aggressively to eliminate the use of their trademarked company name as a verb. the premise was that they did not want the term to become a generic word such as band-aid (note: when you buy the generic kind at walgreens, it's an adhesive bandage, not a band -aid).

i just find it kind of ironic that clinton would use the term in this manner, especially when referencing and attacking obama's word usage and potential plagiarism. if memory serves me correctly, she went to law school. perhaps she didn't specialize in comm law. but she should know better.

and for inquiring minds, the appropriate usage would have been "copy" or "photocopy," but i suppose the rhythmic value of her statement would have been lost if she would have watched her words.