Posted on 12/04/2007 5:51:03 AM PST by jdm
All right, I know a great satire site when I read it. Scott Ott must have contracted with the Hillary Clinton campaign for this argument, right? Only a true satirist or a complete idiot would go after a campaign opponent for his academic record -- in kindergarten! Claiming that Barack Obama didn't tell the truth when he said that his presidential run wasn't the result of some long-held plan, Hillary dug up the evidence after checking the Crayola signatures (via Best of the Web):
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]
I can see where Hillary might be offended by someone with overactive ambition. Imagine what it would be like to have someone stick with a philandering husband/politician, accuse political opponents of vast partisan conspiracies, carpetbag into another state to win a walkover Senate election, all just to maintain one's political viability for a Presidential run! My goodness, we wouldn't want that kind of overwhelming, avaricious desire for power succeeding in grabbing the White House, would we?
By the way, in case you were wondering, here's my kindergarten essay on my political ambitions:
When I grow up, I want to spend eighteen years as a mid-level manager for alarm company call centers. After that, I want to write about politics on DarpaNet. I hear all the hot chicks dig balding, middle-aged political pundits.
It's scary how those sandbox aspirations tend to come true, isn't it? Of course, the week after that I wanted to be a cowboy. Yee and haw.
The Anchoress has more -- and don't miss her writings about Christmas and faith. It's somewhat more uplifting than hearing about Hillary and one-night stands. Yee and haw again.
UPDATE: I was going to let this go, but The Anchoress sent me a link to an update, and I had to include John Edwards' response:
Elsewhere in Iowa, Edwards mocked the Clinton campaign for sniping at Obama about his presidential ambitions.
"It's like, boy, you can tell you're getting close to the caucuses," said Edwards in Waterloo.
"I want to confess to all of you right now," Edwards said. "In third grade I wanted to be two things: I wanted to be a cowboy and I wanted to be Superman."
Tomorrow, the Clinton campaign will begin looking for receipts that prove Edwards bought a cape. Seriously, though, I passed my Superman stage early. I was four when I used my stocking feet to glide on the kitchen floor like Superman "flew" -- and stuck, fell, and broke off my front tooth at the gumline. After that, I stuck to dreams of middle management and political punditry.
Edwards nails her.
Even in third grade, Edwards was a flip-flopper.
I am amazed that NONE of her opponents has taken issue with the very fact she is able and willing to dredge up 3rd grade essays on an opponent!!Think of what will happen to all us Freepers when she hits the Oval Office!!She’ll be frog-marching all of us off to re-education camps!!
How many American kindergartens have the kids write essays on what they want to do when they grow up? No wonder our public schools don't match up.
The Riady (Indonesian) connection pays off for the Clintons once more.
Creepy. Positively creepy.
Any normal boy back then wanted to be: a) President, b) a Cowboy, preferably Roy Rogers, c) a 'G-Man', d) Mickey Mantle, or e) George Patton or Audy Murphy -- a War Hero (yep, we played with guns, oh the horror! /s).
But I can see Hill's befuddlement at those lofty and mostly unreachable goals of normal boys. In her mind everyone should have wanted to grow up to be .. Joseph Stalin!
This certainly is a new low! And we haven’t seen the bottom yet, I’m sure.
I’m glad to see Hillary’s campaign is so hopelessly tone-deaf. It gives me hope.
I’ve been saying for a long trime now: there’s a chance, just a chance, that she’ll replicate the performance of the EU Constitution and New Coke, both of which were highly touted by the respective elites involved but imploded when finally exposed to the populace for approval.
It just could happen.
I’ll bet Hillary wanted to be a KGB chief.
New Coke was a scam! It was the hiding of the reformulation of Coke. Real Coke had cane sugar. The garbage nowadays is cough syrup, I mean corn syrup.
I wonder what Obama’s teachers had to say about his youthful religious affiliation. Is this a shot across the bow?
What’s really creepy is how and where the Hillary war room got ahold of Obama’s kindergarten papers.
Do any of you still have yours? I don’t think even my loving mother still has my kindergarten scribblings.
More to the point how many kindergarten kinds aged 5 can write a coherent paragraph much less an essay. If Obama could spell president at 5, then either he is a savant or Indonesian schools have a better approach to education than “it takes a village of NEA teachers to raise a child”
This is way back in the past, but somewhere i read or heard that there was a letter from Hillary to Bill about some mess-up he was in. The letter went on about “you are messing up the PLAN, what are you doing?” So she has a long-term plan for something-or-other.
Charlie Trie thought so, he hooked up with the Clinons way back before Bill was governor and stuck with them until he got busted.
So it’s bad to have a long-term plan? I think that you must look ahead 10, 15 years if you want to be president.
Kerry got his hunger hanging out with JFK on the Kennedy yaght, and wasn’t it a Kennedy handshake that got Bill started?
Do any of you still have yours?
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Carl Rove paid my mom $500 for them one morning, the same afternoon Carville showed up offering $1000.
I don’t know what Carl did with them.
Our Senior year was done and the Chemistry/Physics teacher asked us on one of the last days of class to write down “What do you want to be when you grow up?” 50% of us caught it...
And so, BTW, is the brilliant one's flunking of the various bar exams she tried. Alas, our heroine not only has a butt and flanks of pure cellulite, but feet of clay to go with her head full of socialist mush.
Really good at handling 'Bimbo Eruptions,' she could like Dick Morris, work on an hourly basis for both sides.
It can likely be shown that kindergarten papers are easier to obtain than National Guard correspondence.
Her Wellesly paper is available.
I’d like to hear her valedictorian speeches from college and HS too.
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