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JOKE'S ON WHO?
Hillary Clinton pollster Mark Penn says their attack on Barack Obama's kindergarten-era presidential ambitions was just a joke. Well, I was laughing, but I think it was more in the "laughing at them" category than "laughing with them." Consider me skeptical. I'm guessing they saw how poorly it played and are trying to find an out.
--Kate Sheppard
COMMENTS (7)
It's amazing to me that someone actually thought that attack was a good idea before it went out.
The "just a joke" is just as lame.
Posted by: Kevin | December 4, 2007 2:56 PM
Sorry you didnt get hhe joke- - it seems much of thee press corps doesnt know sarcasm fro scabbies...I got it - heres part of a diary i wrote up at mydd - called - "Its Sunday Night - Lets laugh at Obama"
On the campaign trail, Sen. Obama is once again repeating a discredited claim from the failed Hillary Clinton biography, Her Way. Newsday reports:
"I'm not in this race to fulfill some long-held plan or because it was owed to me," Obama keeps repeating...
That is a not so veiled reference to an account by biographers Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta that the Clintons sealed a "secret pact of ambition" to both win the presidency--which has been vehemently denied by those that supposedly supplied the quote!
Asked if Obama was referring to the pact, a spokeswoman replied, "Barack Obama has not been mapping out his run for president from Washington for the last 20 years like some of his opponents."
The claim repeated by Sen. Obama and his campaign has been completely discredited by the alleged source, Taylor Branch. The Washington Post reports:
They cite two people, Ann Crittenden and John Henry, who said Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and close Clinton friend, told them that the Clintons "still planned two terms in the White House for Bill and, later, two for Hillary." Branch has repeatedly said that "the story is preposterous" and that "I never heard either Clinton talk about a 'plan' for them both to become president.
It's odd that Sen. Obama would choose to perpetuate this claim about Hillary since there is a long list of people who report that Sen. Obama has aspired to be president for practically his entire life.
Just for fun - lets look back at how others have described Obama's lifelong ambition to rule the world..
Be warned - at points - its too CUTE to handle!
That's our Barry...too cute by half....
His kindergarten teacher:
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."
-Now isnt that darling, he thinks hes gonna one day rule the world!
His third grade teacher:
Fermina Katarina Sinaga, Obama's third-grade teacher, "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]
Oh Barry -he must have had nice curls too - all young boys - theyre all such budding fascists! - its so cute! -
His law school classmates:
[A]ccording to those who know him, he has been talking about the presidency for more than a decade. "It was clear to me from the day I met him that he was thinking about politics," says Harvard Law School classmate Christine Spurell.
Wait...now this is getting a lil weird, most people KNOW by the age of 30 by God - not to say this stuff out loud, uh oh...
His brother-in-law Craig Robinson:
...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 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."
Waaah!? Wow. Now thats downright creepy! Lord - we oughta have a constitutional amendment that says that anybody who actually thinks they CAN be President - shouldnt be allowed to RUN for President!! Yikes! Makes ya think of Stephen King's The Dead Zone" a lil bit doesnt it?
and so on....get it?...it was about making FUN of Barry - lighten up - smile!
Posted by: holden caulfeld | December 4, 2007 3:21 PM
Well Holden, that is the most convoluted triple-reverse bank shot at humor I have ever seen. Since Obama's reference to the "20 year plan" was weeks ago this "rebuttal" humor is poorly timed.
Posted by: Col Bat Guano | December 4, 2007 5:18 PM
sorry Bat,
the reason that hills fact check site posted this list - now for the second time - of barry saying these odd things -to people from when he was 3 to 30 to again was because Barry said this same Gerthian thing again about Hillary this past saturday night....
They have posted this list of whacky comments from Obama - all 3 times he has said the gerth line about "hillarys 20 year plan"
possibly a set up...they didnt have the wisecracks ready I guess the first time that the Clinton campaign posted this...who knows...maybe it took em two weeks to come up with the killer come back...smooth...and of course the dumbasses inn the msm and at kos bought it...
and everyone who is "outraged by hillarys attack" on the young Barry, is either totally humorless, lying their balls off, or dumb as shit - if they think that team Clintons putting in the kid obarry stuff wasnt there to make fun of, ridicule or get ya to laugh at him.
Puleeeeeeeze.
Which of those 3 best fits you Colonel?
Posted by: holden caufield | December 4, 2007 5:42 PM
Holden, I just don't want Clinton to be the nominee.
Posted by: Col Bat Guano | December 4, 2007 11:46 PM
"On Whom?"
Posted by: Grammar Goddess | December 5, 2007 1:34 AM
well there ya go ! Ya show them th truth and then they say the truth doesnt matter!
therein defines the audacity of hype...
Posted by: holden caufield | December 5, 2007 10:34 AM