Hillary v. Barack, Third Grade Edition


By Joe Campbell
December 5th, 2007

I'm now realizing some people might not have been following this as closely as I have.

In mid-November, Obama unveiled this indirect attack on Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush:

"I'm not in this race to fulfill some long-held plan or because it was owed to me..."

Hillary responded in a number of ways - suggesting she had really bad dirt on Obama that she was choosing not to leak ((It turned out to be a land deal that

Finally, earlier this week, Hillary released a press release citing an essay Obama wrote as a kindegardener, another essay from third grade, and a quote from one of his law school acquaintances, all suggesting that Obama was planning to run.  The section on third grade read as follows:

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]

After being ridiculed about the matter for a day, Clinton's top pollster and adviser, Mark Penn stated that the press release was just a joke.  No one seems to have quite believed that, but that's the current state of affairs.

Brian Duffy of the Des Moines Register had this response to Hillary's inane use of Obama's third grade essay:

Hillary and Barack in Third Grade via Andrew Sullivan

Forthcoming in the next few days, my take on "Libertarian Liberalism" following up the lib•er•tar•ian: Ron Paul libertarians vs. Daily Kos libertarians piece that got some attention two weeks ago. (Also, the reason for my slow blogging recently.)

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