Clinton campaign hits a new low?
We’ll let you decide that. All we know is that this borderline pathetic email attacking Obama (what else?) was in our inbox this afternoon. It was part of today’s major assault from Hillary against a surging Obama, with new Iowa polls confirming his slim lead. The frenzy even included HRC herself throwing some serious mud, intimating that Barack has a “character issue” concerning health care, etc.
Anyhow, here’s an excerpt from the email…
SEN. OBAMA REWRITES HISTORY,
CLAIMS HE HASN’T BEEN PLANNING WHITE HOUSE RUN
Today in Iowa, Senator Barack Obama said: “I have not been planning to run for President for however number of years some of the other candidates have been planning for.”
Oh really?
“Senator Obama’s comment today is fundamentally at odds with what his teachers, family, classmates and staff have said about his plans to run for President,” Clinton spokesperson Phil Singer said. “Senator Obama’s campaign rhetoric is getting in the way of his reality.”
Sounds pretty desperate right out of the gate. Is Hillary really the right person to question someone on this topic? Most would say no. But it gets worse because the Clinton camp lists quips from Obama time in kindergarten as evidence that he has been planning a presidential coup since he came out of the womb.
15 years ago, Senator Obama told his brother-in-law he was planning to run for President.Craig [Robinson] pulled him aside [in 1992] and asked about his plans. “He said, ‘I think I’d like to teach at some point in time, and maybe run for public office,’ recalls Robinson, who assumed Senator Obama meant he’d like to run for city alderman. “He said no — at some point he’d like to run for the U.S. Senate. And then he said, ‘Possibly even run for President at some point.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, but don’t say that to my Aunt Gracie.’ I was protecting him from saying something that might embarrass him.” [Washington Post, 8/12/07 ]
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 ]
More than a little amateurish…
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I clicked on this link b/c I thought the essay would be printed here. I would love to read a small child’s dream to become something great. Far too many of us don’t dream at all. We should be grateful for those who do. However, I can’t reconcile the idea that b/c a small child dreams, it has some negative connotation. All children want to be famous, want to be astronauts, presidents, scientists, artists, even movie stars. Can we condemn thechildren for having dreams of greatness? This is not a criticism, but a compliment.
Further, as a child Obma could not control, nor did he have any say in, his mother’s decisions. If his mother moved him to other countried and put him in various schools, he was not making those decisions. How can he be negatively portrayed in these instances?
Amber I agree with you, I have been reading this site that has all this information on Senator Obama and his family and his history. It states some facts and some things are clearly, clearly assumptions.
Anyway, I am african american and all my life I have wanted to be POTUS. My mom encouraged me to reach for my dream and told me I could be whatever I wanted to be. Does that make me an opportunist or a plotter and wrong for dreaming that? H E L L no, it makes me an American who has a dream to one day be POTUS.
People want to see plots and want to see deceit sometimes when it is clearly not there.
You’re both missing the point entirely! The point is that he LIED about it, as he does with so many things!
You both miss the point!
The point is that he LIED about it, as he does so often!
Prayers, praying that the TRUTH will come into the light for all to see…Amen.
Thank you for all those who have worked so hard to bring this “secrecy” out. 