The Political Chase

Clinton slams Obama for youthful Presidential hopes

For as long as I can remember, any child expressing a desire to be President of the United States was considered an honorable, albeit difficult, aspiration. "Grown-ups" frequently motivated youth with expressions like, "Maybe you’ll grow up and be president one day." The same type of expression has been used countless times by many when positively commenting on a "younger" person’s intellect or talent. Hillary Clinton, ironically, considers long-term presidential aspirations a flaw.

Today, Clinton criticized Barack Obama for his presidential aspirations. The prosecution’s "Exhibit A" is a long list of horrifying and damning evidence that chronologically begins when Sen. Obama was in kindergarten.

In third grade, Sen. Obama wrote an essay titled ‘I Want To Be a President’:

Sen. Obama’s third grade teacher, Fermina Katarina Sinaga, “asked her class to write an essay titled ‘My dream: What I want to be in the future.’ Obama wrote ‘I want to be a president,’ she said.” [The Los Angeles Times, 3/15/07]

In kindergarten, Sen. Obama wrote an essay titled ‘I Want to Become President’:

“Iis Darmawan, 63, 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]

Unconscionable and reprehensible. Obama should have been incarcerated for the heinous crime of wanting to be president when he was five years old.

Thank god Sen. Clinton only began formally planning her presidency when she made a pact with Bill Clinton during their dating years or shortly after marriage. I can’t recall her exact words or precisely when she discussed the pact publicly, but I distinctly remember her making the statement during her current campaign. My apologies for not referencing Clinton’s statements with a link, but I’m just not going to waste my time searching the Internet for it.

I’m sure Sen. Clinton attacking essays written in kindergarten and third-grade is valuable opposition research. Maybe they could answer a question I have. When did children in kindergarten begin writing essays? At most, I thought kids were being taught how to merely write. If Obama was writing essay’s in kindergarten, I submit he was a pretty smart kid.