Hillary Goes Negative…Badly
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Hillary, Iowa, Partisan Nonsense
In a response to Obama’s contention that he hasn’t been planning to run for President, Hillary’s team put out a press release that detailed five instances where he said something to the contrary.
I will focus on the last two (emphasis theirs):
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 live in Kansas City, but I think I can hear the laughter and cheering at Obama’s Des Moines headquarters from here.
I guess the fun part really has started!
UPDATE:
Well, the carnage continues.
Looks like John Edwards has fessed up to his schoolyard aspirations…
“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.”
What did Ed Morrissey want to be?
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.
Such hubris…for shame!
UPDATE:
We’ve found Barack’s kindergarten piece!
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:41 pm
This is one of the funniest things I’ve read all day. Scratch that, all week. Well done.
December 4th, 2007 at 8:21 am
This is going to be like watching a (shrill, bitchy) train wreck in slow motion. Her team is obviously not the all-stars that Billy had, nor does seem to have the political intuition of her hubby. She was dead before she started, but this just confirms it.
December 4th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Hubris=excessive pride. So its use here is incorrect. Something else here that is incorrectly used given the content: “surprisingly reasonable.”
December 4th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Dear Jammer,
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hubris
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/hubris
Please go away,
Justin
December 4th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Ugly pic of Hillary… check.
Feeble attempt at bashing her… check.
I definitely have more sympathy for her after reading this.
December 4th, 2007 at 10:46 am
People, come on…
First off, what Hillary’s team did was uber-goofy. “Feeble” even. If you’re going to go negative, do it with something substantive, not 3rd grade essay papers.
Second, the pic matches how goofy and awkward the attack was. Personally, I don’t think it’s ugly, but I suppose that’s in the eye of the beholder.
Trust me folks, her line about attacking people being “the fun part” and this essay thing will both come back to haunt her.
December 4th, 2007 at 10:55 am
No, YOU come on. The elementary school essays prove the point that running for president has been his life’s ambition–while he has ironically suggested that Hillary has been overly ambitious in that regard.
And, OK, sure. You thought maybe that was just an average photo of Hillary.
…Do you really want to insult my intelligence?
December 4th, 2007 at 11:17 am
David, you’re really defending Hillary using something Obama wrote when he was 5? Regardless of the merit of her initial attack, she should have stopped with her first three points and left the schoolyard stuff alone. But she didn’t and so she’s opened herself up to ridicule.
Also, concerning the picture, I said it was goofy and awkward, like the attack her team put out. I’m not trying to put one over on you, I’m just pointing out that I don’t agree with your description. You can think that’s insulting if you want.
December 4th, 2007 at 11:23 am
First, love the update. Makes it even better.
Second, david d, I think you’re being at least a little defensive and thus unreasonable. I would guess that if you polled all the kindergarteners in America you’d find that at least 50% want to be President and at least 25% want to be butterflies. As Justin said, to cite evidence from a five or eight year old Obama is completely absurd.
December 4th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Thanks. I found it on reddit.com
December 4th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Hillary’s next line of attack:
“Obama can not even spell president. He spells it with a Z, and like an H at the end. Do you really want to elect a guy that can’t even spell the office that he is running for? Furthermore, why does he want to be preZidenH? Because his mom told him he could be. Is that the right reason for wanting to be preZidenH? Hillary wants to be president for a variety of Good Reasons, not because her mommy told her she could be. Barrack dumb, Hillary good. Vote Hillary.”
December 4th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Let’s not forget the dumb writes his “R’s” backward. God, what an IDIOT!!
December 4th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Niccccce picture of Hilliary, MMMMM! so attractive. The bunny teeth, that’s got to be it.
December 5th, 2007 at 2:15 am
Hey, aren’t we all forgetting something here? Wasn’t Obama living in Jakarta, Indonesia in Kindergarden and Third Grade? What makes us think that he wrote these essays in English rather than in the national language of Bahasa Indonesia? How many people here can write anything of substance in ANY OTHER language? Thats another plus for him in my book…
April 25th, 2008 at 8:40 am
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