The Politics of Kindergarten

Taking a page straight out of The Onion, Hillary Clinton's campaign has attacked Barack Obama over claims that he never had a plan to run for President. From her website:

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."

[The evidence is presented, including below]

In kindergarten, Senator Obama wrote an essay titled 'I Want to Become President.'1/25/07 ]

Yes, that's right. The Clinton campaign is using essays Obama wrote in Kindergarten to attack his candidacy.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton responds: "I'm sure tomorrow they'll attack him for being a flip-flopper because he told his second grade teacher he wanted to be an astronaut."

As an aside, if anyone is interested in perfecting their Hillary Clinton impersonation I've provided three easy steps:

1. Deliver your speech in monotones.
2. Intermittently use your right hand to make pointing gestures while angling your head to the right.
3. Gradually bring your monotone, robot-like speech up successive octaves.

Observe: