A Message Better Left Unsent?

So, I guess Hillary's message to school children as young as kindergarten age is, don't dare dream of wanting to be President one day, let alone putting it in an essay, because one day it might be turned against you? How inspiring. I didn't think it possible, but her campaign really has come off the track. Dumb. Just so freaking dumb.

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 ]

Comments

[JustOneMan]

BREAKING NEWS

The Clinton Campaign just released evidence that while in grade school Obama also wanted to be a cowboy, fireman and astronaut. To support their claim the Clinton camp released a fire truck and space ship made from macaroni and several finger paintings made by Obama himself.

Obama’s spokesperson had no comment.

[mike191]

To expend this effort to demonize a political opponent based on his childhood dreams should send a shiver of fear into every American.

[Scrapiron]

Wrote an essay in kindergarden. BS, he was still learning to print the 'B' in B. Hessein Obama. The Osama camp has shammed the witch (smartest woman in the world) again.

[Scrapiron]

Since he attended a radical Islamic 'school' the B could have been part of suicide Bomb whitey.

[anomdebus]

In some defense, I am told Obama has been making hay with Hillary's "well-known long-standing desire to become president".

I would say even if it is tit for tat, it probably reflects worse on Hillary than Obama. But that is just my opinion.

[Bill]

When I was in kindergarten I wrote an essay that said I wanted to be a "firetruck"....not a fireman...a "firetruck".

Please oh god I hope no one finds out.

[Shera]

When I was in kindergarten I wrote an essay that said I wanted to enter into a sham marriage in order to pursue my political ambitions and then fool 51% of the people on one special day and become president so I that the stroke of my pen becomes the law of the land. pretty cool.

[Gary]

I wrote "poopy" in 2nd grade. I knew then that my presidential aspirations were dashed.

[George]

I *am* the president, and I still write "poopy". Wanna be a cowboy and a jet fighter pilot, too. Astronaut might be hard, though as long as I keep Dick and his Hallibuddies happy they say they might cut me a check to go up with the Russians in '09.

Strategery, baby!

(Author's note: I actually support Bush (except on II), but the lefty-jokes are a fun playground.)

[JorgXMcKie]

I'm beginning to think Obama may win the Dem nomination simply because he's the only one with any brains who isn't an ass (so far).

[Dave L]

It seems people are looking for excuses not to like Hillary. And she keeps providing them. I'm not sure that's a strategy for success.

[Letalis Maximus, Esq.]

Shoot, I grew up in a town so small we didn't get to have kindergarten. I guess that means I can never be President.

Of course, then there was all that pot I smoked in college....

[mike d]

I am not 100% sure i could even write yet when i was in kindergarten, much less crank out anything like an essay.

Seriously. i was a Kinderkid in 1970. my world revolved around milk and graham crackers, my buddies Jeff H. and Mike A, my "girlfriend" Janelle D., and playing with the giant blocks.

My most vivid memories of 1970 were of my Air Force Navigator (C-121 Connies) dad coming back to McClellan AFB from Thailand every six months or so in his orange flight suit, pouring a can of Hamm's over his Rice Krispies at 7 am.

At my school, we took power naps, sang a few songs and tried to learn what we could, like what day of the week it was and how to hold a #1 until break time. Heck we were only in class for half the day. Writing essays about what we wanted to be when we grew up? Not so much. I wanted to be my dad, anyway, and had no idea who Nixon was.

Thanks to Ma Kettle, I could read at a 3rd grade level by the age of 4. But it seems to me like the writing excercises, (with the giant red pencil so big you had to rest it on your shoulder and paper so thick it had chunks of wood in it) didnt start until 1st or even 2nd grade.

Where am i going wrong?

[GK]

When in grades 2-4, I profusely used new words that I was learning along with my colleagues. These words were 'xxxx', 'buttock', 'xxxx', 'fxxx', and 'xxxxxx'. I said those words, in my school, along with my colleagues, at that time. I even put those words in writing, at the time.

At age 2, I also urinated in my pants in public. I guess I am not qualified for Public Office.

[J]

"The Clinton Campaign just released evidence that while in grade school Obama also wanted to be a cowboy, fireman and astronaut"

With the challenges America faces, I think we can all agree we don't want this kind of flip-flopper in the White House.

[JLawson]

So Obama wrote an essay in kindergarden? Big friggin' whoop! Is it just me, or does Hillary sound like the sort of busybody, micromanaging, controlling person I'd not want as a friend, or a neighbor - much less running the city - much less running the state - much less running the country?

I'm just sayin' - if this is the way she acts BEFORE election day, when she is at least SOMEWHAT restrained and accountable to the voters - how is she going to act AFTER the country has a collective brain fart and she gets elected? She'll be Queen, at least in her own eyes, and one does not question what Royalty desires!

God. We could be looking at the establishment of the Rodham Dynasty here. First Queen Hillary, then Queen Chelsea.

[old trooper]

Hillary cound not keep Bill's fly shut.

Ambition for Power will not give her a Coronation.

We Know Better!

The Iowa Caucuses do not mean shit.

Wait for it to roll out further. Watch for more vindictive crap from her.
The Media throws it out fast. The American Voters will see it for what it is.

Wait and watch!

[JeanE]

Some kindergarten classes encourage students to compose essays by dictating to a teacher, assistant or parent, not physically handwriting the document. It's a good way to help kids connect the natural activity of telling a story to the more structured task of writing. The kids may write or illustrate portions of their story, and adults help with the rest. I expect Sen. Obama's teacher had the students do this sort of exercise on the subject of "What do you want to be when you grow up?", and like many other kids, he wanted to be President.

[Mikey NTH]

Does all of this sound rather Nixonian to anyone else?