Sunday, December 16, 2007

Hillary's Kindergarten Caper

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign continues to careen wildly between professionalism and amateurism. She has the biggest political "machine". If she knows the question in advance, she can deliver a well-coached and well-rehearsed answer that you can time an egg with. Her campaign has raised an extraordinary amount of money.

But then comes the stunningly amateurish attack on Barak Obama's presidential ambitions. Barak has made statements that he has not had a long-term plan to be president. The Clinton campaign responded in a "gotcha" press release that referenced an "essay" Barak Obama had written in kindergarten about wanting to be president when he grew up. Wow, now that is really digging for dirt! Delving all the way back to when Barak was 5 years old to prove that Obama is a life-long schemer that is driven to capture the White House.

It sounds a lot more like Hillary is projecting her own view of destiny on Senator Obama. But even more, how silly does this make the Clinton Campaign look? Is Hillary's kindergarten caper and her attacks on Obama for his self-admitted experimentation with recreational drugs in his mis-spent youth really the worst "dirt" the Clinton's can dig up? I'd say Obama has nothing to worry about.

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