Attacking Barack Obama for something he said in elementary school? Come. On.
Sen. Obama Rewrites History, Claims He Hasn’t Been Planning White House Run
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In third grade, Senator Obama wrote an essay titled ‘I Want To Be a President.’ His third grade teacher: Fermina Katarina Sinaga “asked her class to write an essay titled ‘My dream: What I want to be in the future.’ Senator Obama wrote ‘I want to be a President,’ she said.” [The Los Angeles Times, 3/15/07]
In kindergarten, Senator Obama wrote an essay titled ‘I Want to Become President.’ “Iis Darmawan, 63, Senator Obama’s kindergarten teacher, remembers him as an exceptionally tall and curly haired child who quickly picked up the local language and had sharp math skills. He wrote an essay titled, ‘I Want To Become President,’ the teacher said.” [AP, 1/25/07 ]
Sen. Clinton says shes in favor of raising the tone in Washington, but in pre-school she called Bobby Gorman a poopy head. are those the kind of family values we want?
Get serious.
She’s not hitting Mr. Obama for something he said in the third grade. She’s hitting him for something he said just recently–that he’s not running for President because he has held a lifelong aspiration to do so.
And why would Mr. Obama make such an odd assurance to voters? Why, to differentiate himself from the “ambitious” Ms. Clinton.
Yeah, it’s stupid, trivial stuff. But it’s stupid and trivial on both sides, not just on Ms. Clinton’s.
It’s not like I didn’t rap Obama on similar issues. But Kindergarten citations are a step too far.
Still Quaker, this is just digging in an empty barrel. An essay written in third grade is hardly evidence of a “lifelong aspiration.” If Barack was like any other kid, I’m sure that the first time he saw a cop show he thought about how cool it would be to be a cop, and if the assignment had hit that week, it would have been “I Want To Be Columbo.”