Our very own Obama?

Sco writes he's never liked the seemingly superficial comparisons between Barack Obama and our own Deval Patrick. But there's Obama himself making the comparison in a speech at Harvard yesterday:

... the Senator recalled that in his own primary, many people thought he was the best candidate, and would be the best Senator, but doubted his ability to win a contested primary against several other popular figures. He then mentioned that there was someone there that a lot of people thought would make the best governor, and pointed Deval Patrick out to the crowded room. With that endorsement, I have to imagine that Patrick had a pretty good fundraising weekend.