After all, it's my impression that all these dorks have been meandering their lives for quite some time..... all geared to be president some day. Well, except for Rudy. If he really wanted to be president 10 years ago, you think he would have used the Bill Clinton playbook to hide his extramarital activity.
These are the people who note that they were high school class president on their resumes. Total geeks.
With that said, you really have to question the Hillary Clinton attack on Obama's claim that he's never positioned his career with the intent to be president. Given that it's really such a non issue, why would your campaign put such an effort in a press release refuting all this menusha?
I'm copying this verbatim from the HillaryClinton.com web site for fear that they'll ultimately take it down.
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."
Immediately after joining the Senate, Senator Obama started planning run for President. "'The first order of business for Senator Obama's team was charting a course for his first two years in the Senate. The game plan was to send Senator Obama into the 2007-2008 election cycle in the strongest form possible'...The final act of the plan was turning up the talk about a potential Presidential bid, which was greatly aided by his positive press and suggestions by pundits that he run for President." [U.S. News and World Report, 6/19/07 ]
His law school classmates say that Senator Obama has been planning Presidential run for 'more than a decade.' [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. [Washington Post, 8/12/07 ]
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 ]
Are you serious? They've resorted to quoting a Obama's kindergarten teacher to discredit him! To what lengths will the Clinton campaign go to discredit a candidate.
Thank God I'm not running for president against the Clinton's. They'd pull out some quote from old friend saying how I wanted to be president so I could have a housekeeper clean up my spilled bong water. Or maybe when I told my first grade teacher how I wanted to be Elvis Presley when I grew up. Or that time I was 17, drunk, & wearing a toga referring to myself as Senator Blutarsky.
While the whole issue appears to be ridiculous, it's another example of what the Clinton Mafia will do to discredit an opponent for something so patently petty. Imagine what they'll do for something serious? Richard Nixon wishes he had their stones.
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