Hi Gang:

Now Hillary's got her knickers in a bunch because a third grader dared to want to be president .

And she's gonna lead our country ???

How will she handle really important issues, if something Obama said in the third grade got her so unglued???

hippolips

'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."' Press release

I don't get her point?

What's wrong with any of that stuff?

She posts this stuff on a website as if it's going to somehow make Obama look bad? If anything, it should make him look better. It gives people a glimpse at the aspiring young boy and bright student within the electoral candidate. I personally don't see anything wrong in his having planned to run for Pres. in the long term, rather than it being something just done on the fly, which is something that would concern me, if it were so. Nor do I see any reason for his allegedly trying to deny it being long since planned. Which is maybe the point she was trying to make?

I really hate it when candidates of the same party start to try tripping each other up like this. It's so petty, and immature. It's like watching a race in the olympics in which the runners deliberately try to make the athlete next to them fall on their face, so they can get ahead of them. Try running with honor, do your personal best, and be a good sport about letting those beside you do the same.

At least Edwards only wanted to be a cowboy or Superman at that age (according to him, that is).

The rest of the stuff in that release hardly makes Obama a liar. So he said he'd like to have public office, perhaps even President? Wow!

What's Hillary Clinton's line? That, as a student, she wanted to marry a man she could drive on, or be carried along by, to be President and has been plotting to be President herself ever since? No surprise there, then.Is naked, self-seeking, ambition from the earliest, to win at all costs regardless, changing statements and position to that very end, seen as a desirable quality in a Presidential candidate? (That might just be what Obama has in mind)

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Now Hillary's got her knickers in a bunch because a third grader dared to want to be president .

It sounds to me more like you've got yours in a bunch because she points out a contradiction in his claims, and provides evidence (besides a third grader's dreams).

Isn't it the polite convention that (while actually fighting thumb-in-eye and knee-in-groin to be president) you must maintain the pretence that you've never had any such ambition, and have reluctantly allowed yourself to be talked into running by earnest friends who recognised what a service you could do your country?

It takes a village to raise a child

Hillary has her knickers in a bunch because she is afraid that Obama is going to jump ahead of her, so she is trying her best to make him look bad. I hope that it backfires and makes her look silly.

Amen to that. Let the best man...er...person win!

'Using a curious tactic in a Democratic primary season dominated by liberals, Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday accused Barack Obama of being too far left to be elected president -- citing a decade-old questionnaire indicating Obama once opposed the death penalty and backed socialized medicine...' Clinton accuses Obama of being too far left

You can imagine hundreds of Clinton staffers sifting through Obama's past to find stuff like this. Actually, are opposition to the death penalty and support for socialized (eek!) medicine an electoral liability - in the primaries, at least?

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And she's gonna lead our country ???

I hope not.

To say that Obama never signed off the questionnaire replies is not much of an answer (see the link above).The old cross-examination line in such cases is "What had you said or done that would cause (the aide who completed the questionnaire) to think those were your opinions at that time?" and so on...