by Farai Chideya

What's in a word? Well, that's the key to this whole election row over whether Barack Obama stole Deval Patrick's words ... and now, whether Hillary Clinton has taken some liberties of her own.

Let's go to the tape. This is part of Thursday's debate:

Here's a previous story on Obama:

And a new vid about Hil:

As a friend of mine who forwarded me one of the videos said, "It's going to get nasty from here out." That's politics. We'll see how heavy the attacks and counterattacks fly.