I long for the days when "any" type of negative campaign was met with disdain.

Anyone ever see that movie "The Titanic?". Thats what this reminds me of. The Clinton campaign looks like that big inevitable sinking ship. Hillary Clinton attacking Obama's kindergarten days?? LOL!! And then she also attacks his Character?? I thought I had seen it all!! but I guess not; Wow!! just Wow!!

I think Hillary Clinton just handed Obama the nomination.

Hillary is getting really DESPERATE! I guess those internal polls are showing the Senator Obama is pulling away in all the early voting states and she feels the need to dig up data from his elementary school years. Hillary is done.

They ought to run these ideas by an ordinary person before launching them, because this petty and ridiculous press release is going to hurt her.

Well Miss Inevitable said that she tried to run a positive campaign until all those nasty boys jumped on her. Now she wants to kick butt. There is a difference between the a young kid musing about being president, which every red blooded American does, and a slick wife a tainted former president plotting with him to run for president. If this woman seems desperate now, wait till a couple more weeks she'll really be pinging off the wall.

This is just hilarious and absurd that she's using past statements about wanting to run for President as a negative. The US News & World Report statement cited isn't even a statement coming from Obama - it doesn't say who it is coming from - it is likely nothing more than some writer's opinion. And statements to his brother-in-law 15 years ago or an essay he wrote in kindergarten! Who cares?

Hillary is apparently getting quite desperate as she feels Obama closing in on her for the nomination.

Anyone ever see the movie "Election" with Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick? Hillary Clinton reminds me exactly of Reese Witherspoon. Will do anything to get elected and not too many people like her.

There are many democrats who will NOT vote for her in a general election. As a Dem, we cannot have her as our nominee.

They're really digging over there in the Clinton camp for some dirt on Obama. Caught redhanded writing essays in kindergarten and in third grade that he would like to be President; made me question his integrity straight away.

Unfortunately, this is not news. What IS news is that we have a man who, by historical fact, has come from a challenging childhood, managed to keep out of trouble, has continually excelled in his studies and is likeable enough that he brings people together to solve problems! He was a State Legislator - hardly a household name - for 8 years, then burst into the national limelight nearly serendipitously during the 2004 Dem Nat'l convention. Sure he did some planning, yet now has pulled ahead of the wife of a REAL past President -- the only Democratic President in the last 27 years!

This is real man bites dog news!!! It is the American, democractic political system at its best!

Obama will continue to expand market and mindshare. Kindergarten and 3rd grade essays in which he espoused a childhood fantasy of becoming President are not going to deter me from volunteering every spare moment I have to help him win the nomination, and to WIN BIG!!! here in Iowa.

The problem for Hillary is even if she were to win the nomination, the Republicans would swiftboat she and maybe her husband, too, to tears. She needs to step aside and let the next generation actually DO something about the messes we're in. Bill was nearly impeached, and while we Dems still love him, we want the White House back. What Barack Obama can do which Hillary cannot is to win the White House back! Obama - Change We Can Believe In

I just became an Obama supporter. Ms. Clinton's judgment has been sadly warped by her need to win. This kind of "win-at-any-cost" mentality is exactly the problem of too many people in our current executive AND legislative branches. We should all be sick and tired of this kind of behavior.

This really makes Clinton's campaign out to be the dinosaur that it is. An unwieldy attack on a kindergarten essay?? What??

This is simply pathetic.

Remember when Clinton claimed a month ago or so "They're only attacking me because I'm the one in the lead." So does that statement still apply, only in the converse?

Goodbye Hillary Clinton's political career. It was nice knowing you. Oh wait...no it wasn't. But thanks for the Iraq War, Patriot Act, and No Child Left Behind. Hopefully the next person will be able to clean up the mess she helped make.

To paraphrase Denny Green and the Chicago Bears, SHE IS WHO WE THOUGHT SHE WAS.

To paraphrase Denny Green and the Chicago Bears, SHE IS WHO WE THOUGHT SHE WAS.

This just shows that Hillary cannot be trusted. Using something that happened in kindergarden is ridiculous and laughable. l had so much respect for Hillary but this is insane.

Pathetic

Methinks Hillary is very, very desperate.

Maybe soon she'll reveal that Obama cheated in a game of tag on a school playground when he was six years old.

Well, at least it's not a Swift Boat attack. Squabbles over when the candidate first
thought about running for Prez seem rather quaint in today's
political environment.

However, Hill and Bill need to
re-organize. Between Kindergarten Days and Bill claiming he was against the war....they're making some mistakes. On the other hand, having just read a very scary article about the national debt (9 trillion or something, almost double what it was
after Bill) I sure hope they get it together because given Obama's liberal ways, it surely will rise in an Obama presidency. Along with our taxes.

Ira, wonderful post. I can picture Dennis Green saying just that.

Anyway, kindergarten essays? Third-grade essays?? Seems the Queen B can't stand the heat in the kitchen. COurse, she's never been in a kitchen, except perhaps to check out the knives.

Looking at ALL the candidates from the both parties, and now seeing the Queen B using grade-school essays against a candidate, is this really the best this country can do? All of them are a pathetic bunch of losers.

CHICK FIGHT.

I think in 4th grade he wanted to shady land deals in the future.

In the 5th grade he wanted to expand his thought of being president to where he would redistribute wealth throughout the country.

Obamaisms supporters - I think Chavez is doen with his "Si" t-shirts.

Ironically, it is Obama's profound lack of experience and therefore any record on any important issues that has kept him in the campaign. He can say anything. But the fact remains that he's done absolutely nothing for the people of Illinois as our senator. He has, however, cut deals to enrich himself and his wife while on our payroll. It is astounding that Obama believes he is worthy of the presidency. It is equally astounding that he has actually convinced some American that he's qualified and something special. This guy is a complete fraud and I'm ashamed he's from my home state.

Wait, you mean that Obama's kindergarten and third grade essays weren't written in Arabic and were about how he wanted to be Ayatollah?

Who would have guessesd that those e-mails saying he had been educated as a sleeper agent in a madrassah to take over the US weren't true? Next you'll be telling me that Saddam Hussein didn't have WMD's in 2003.

I think the only response that can wipe this clean is to say this was released without her consent or knowledge. Assuming of course that it's true, I would not recommend she tell a lie to save herself. This is truly sad. I better try and find all of my elementary school essays before I apply for a promotion, it may be used against me.

This is great! I am a Republican but if I had to vote for President today I would vote for Obama. It frightens me that the some Democrats want Hillary as their canidate!(?) However, it looks like she is stumbling. WOO HOO!

God will make the Democrats loose the 2008 election if they nominate Mrs Clinton, just because they think she is electable. Nominate the Truth, the Principle and Honesty. Thats what wins!
Mafaism-

Hillary's Iowa campaign is falling apart. This reeks of desperation and panic.

I mean get seriuos!! I think even the republican bloggers in the swamp would have to agree that dreaming to be president as a little kid is a good thing.

Didn't we all do that at some point? But for most of us, those "crazy dreams just came and went".

"Cause they told me when I was younger
Said boy, you're gonna be president
But just like everything else
Those old crazy dreams
Just kinda came and went"

John Mellencamp
Pink Houses 1983

Finally Hillary has decided to fight fire with fire, it shows that perhaps a lot of thought, consideration, and end results were weighed before going off to war and did not just strike out like others have against her

I am a teacher. I imagine at 63 being asked if I can remember what a kindergarten kid wrote in an essay more than 40 years ago... You've got to be kidding! And by the way, if Barack Obama wrote an ESSAY (kindergarten kids write essays??) on becoming president in Kindergarten, he was one smart kid. I want him for my President!

No more Clintons and no more Bushs please.

Obama Vs Huckabee!!

This is completely absurd. I'm shaking my head in disbelief! American women, please wake up, please.

Clearly it is a response to the stupid charge from Obama that Clinton had a pact with Bill that they would both be president. Way to take the qoute out of context though and not inculde that attack from Obama.

What's next? Will they attack his fingerpainting from kindergarten?

In Walt disney's "Song of the South" there is a song that goes "Everybody needs a laughin' place, a laughin' place to go Ho Ho..."

Commenter Derrick (who claims to be from Illinois), clearly doesn't know a single thing about our Senator.

While in the US Senate Obama has passed Lugar-Obama, a bill that expands the Nunn-Lugar cooperative threat reduction concept to conventional weapons, including shoulder-fired missiles and anti-personnel mines. He has also passed the "Coburn-Obama Transparency Act" provides for a web site, managed by the Office of Management and Budget, listing all organizations receiving Federal funds from 2007 onward, and providing breakdowns by the agency allocating the funds, the dollar amount given, and the purpose of the grant or contract. In addition to those two he has also gotten through the "Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act," which had his name on it as the first sponsor.

He also worked with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) in strengthening restrictions on travel in corporate jets to S.1, the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007. And then Obama sponsored with Kit Bond (R-MO) an amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Act adding safeguards for personality disorder military discharges, and calling for a review by the Government Accounting Office following reports that the procedure had been used inappropriately to reduce government costs. He sponsored the "Iran Sanctions Enabling Act" supporting divestment of state pension funds from Iran's oil and gas industry, and joined Chuck Hagel (R-NE) in introducing legislation to prevent nuclear terrorism. He also sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide one year of job protection for family members caring for soldiers with combat-related injuries.

Not only has he done quite a bit for the people of Illinois, but the entire country has benefitted from his work - as have people in the Congo - which is increasingly becoming a more desperate situation.

As for Hillary - take a look at her record - it's suprisingly empty by comparison!

And regarding the Kindergarten essay - those internal poll numbers from Clinton's campaign must be PRETTY bad if she's willing to look this absurd. Between this and her attack on college students voting in Iowa - a state that they reside in for most of the year - she is setting herself up for quite the loss!

when it comes to character issues,I think Hillary should first clean her house.Put barck obama record on Character to bill cliton's Record.You got the best Answer.

If you cannot see that Hillary is a desperate, self-serving, misandrist who has always wanted nothing more than to be the President and will do anything to get the job, then clearly you aren't paying attention.

It's time to see what many in the "right-wing" conspiracy have been witnessing for a long time.

Go Obama!

I can't believe that anyone would take seriously the essays from a kindergarted and 3rd grade class. My own kids change their minds every other week. They have no concept of the future. And that is not the exception to all of the other kids that age I know from cub scouts and such.
Isn't that what we hope for from our kids when they're that age? We look at them and beam proudly for thinking of such a lofty goal. Do we take them seriously? No. I can't believe any one would think seriously of the Presidency until at least college. Defintely law school.
It's possible that he thought about it as a young adult, but Clinton's campaign looks ridiculous by bringing up grade school essay's. I guess the only way that a campaign would take those grade school essays seriously is because they only think like children. I certainly don't want to think about those campaign people in White House positions with a mindset like that.
They may have really lost my vote this time.

Obiwan, Bill WAS impeached. The Senate didn't vote to remove him.

This situations suggests to me that all future candidates for public office should be forced to stick to their third-grade platforms. That way we'd have many more firefighters, police officers, astronauts and cowboys.

I guess if you can't find anything negative to use go back to a person's childhood days and I am sure you will find something!!! "Obama hit a bully back in the first grade"!!! Hillary has taken off the gloves....Let the games begin!!!! LOL!!!

This is just too funny... Hillary is really grasping at straws here. I am amazed that a kindergarten student is writing at all, much less essays about becoming president....

This reinforces a gut feeling (nausea?) that many of us have had for some time: Senator Clinton may have more experience, but Senator Obama is a better candidate.

I will admit that while I agree more often with Hillary's opinions, Obama is much more likable and just someone people "take to". Call it change or fresh ideas, but it has excitement. It also does not hurt to break the retread of Bush-Clinton monotony.

It is very early, but another blunder by Hillary's handlers. She must be having a hissy fit over this one!

Thanks Hillary. You've firmly knocked me off the fence.

What a smart kid! Writing essays in kindergarten. He should become President.

Maybe this was the information that Robert Novak was talking about.

Not funny.... sad.

I have often joked among friends that one could never run for President in today's world because the media and your competitors would find out "if you cheated on a spelling test in 3rd grade". Low and behold it has come to pass. Senator Obama "allegedly" wrote that essay in 3rd grade and he is being excoriated by Hillary's people over it. Pathetic and just too absurd. Aligned with the staggering cost of running for President it is no wonder that we can't seem to find anyone in either party who can do and truly deserves the job.

And yes, I know the media has a duty to report on everything and you can't ignore these things because then it raises questions of where to "draw the line" - but how much does anyone want to bet that this won't go away for days if not weeks?

5 years ago Howard Dean was running well until he made a slightly too-ebullient war whoop to excite his campaign workers. By the time the pundits got done with him he was an also-ran and was characterised as a dangerous bipolar guy who would loose the warheads at a moment's notice!

And what did we get instead? A Kennnedy-esque Massachusetts liberal who couldn't excite the country to oust one of the most clearly incompetent and corrupt presidencies in decades.

We as voters should DEMAND that the news and the candidates stick to issues and pursue a higher ground or we will not even consider voting for them. And that includes reports about the sound of Hillary's giggle, Obama's 3rd grade essays, or for that matter who Mitt Romney hires to re-roof his home.

Let's talk instead about $70-a-barrel oil, thousands of maimed and dead GI's, bin Laden still making video's, North Korea and Iran being within a hair's breadth of a nuclear arsenal, defaulting home loans and sinking real estate values, the dollar, and everything else that has gone to hell in the past 8 years and how we are going to fix it before my great-grandchildren are born.

Oh and by the way - for the record - I never did cheat on that 3rd grade spelling test and will deny it until someone finds a smoking gun....

Hilliary, you and your political machine have gone off the deep end. She lost my vote for sure now.

Frank James.....
Can we please just call this what it is and get it over with?
That's right.....
KINDERGATE!
Obama EXPOSED!!!!!

Can somebody please explain how it's a bad thing that a presidential candidate decided when he was five years old that he would love to be president, had the wherewithal to write about it, the determination to stick with it, and the skills to make it possible? Why is this wrong? Is it better when someone doesn't plan it?

Clinton, Obama. Why not choose instead someone who runs a clean campaign and who has more impressive credentials than either of these Senators. Governor Richardson has been a Congressman, Cabinet member, Ambassador, multi-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and is currently a well-respected governor. He is the obvious choice.

Moral fiber will end up being the deciding issue in the Presidential Race.

Hillary, Obama, and Edwards will end up being the Big Losers since they have lost the high ground on this issue.

The breathy posts here are amusing. This is Obamaland -- and it shows. Hillary's no prize, but neither is Obama. And make no mistake -- both camps are desperate at this stage. If Obama was the shining, confident man of honor many here purport, he wouldn't have issued the goofy release encouraging out of state college students to dilute the Iowa caucuses. It backfired, though -- see editorial in Des Moines Register. It's a sad day in America when the best we can put forward for the highest office in the land is Obama and Clinton. We need to demand more from our candidates, including those in the Republican camp.

Obama was writing essays in Kindergarten? We could use that kind of brainpower in the Oval Office.

While I think the Clinton campaign is overreacting on this, I do believe that Obama's hyprocrisy needs to be called out. Obama made a big show about how he was going to stay positive and not attack. Yet when his poll numbers stalled, he went negative. And when Hillary fights back, he plays the victim.

I was an Obama supporter. But his holier than thou attitude along with what I perceive as an attitude problem has moved me back to the undecided column.

Democrats never fail to amaze me. They will go out of their way to ruin their chances of winning the White House.

In 2000, the Dems split their vote between Gore and Nader, and handed the election to Bush.

Are Dems really going to hand this election to the Republicans again, with through political infighting? The answer is...probably.

Man...if this keeps up, I'm going to leave the Dem Pary after 30 years.

BTW, Karl Rove just wrote a column for Newsweek giving advice to Obama on how to beat Hillary in Iowa. Now why would Rove be giving advice to Obama? The obvious answer is that Rove thinks Obama would be much easier to beat in a general election than Hillary. Just food for thought...

This is from the women who was caught with an open mic doing back stage election fixing.
You have to be insane to vote for another crooked Clinton.
I lost all respect for Hillary with the way she delt with Bills adultry.
Clintons did nothing for this country other than suck up cash for renting out bedrooms in the White House.
She is as morally bankrupt as Bill Clinton is.
No way does she get in.
Only a foolish person would give the Clintons another chance.
Look what she did to try and become president....
She lets herself be a laughing stock for the world by tolerating her husband getting oral from an intern.
She gets voted into congress from a State that she never lived in...
She tries to fix who is in a debate with her.
She has students planted in debates to ask her questions written by her staff...

You have to be crazy to vote for her.

WOW ... Senator Obama should have released this third grade essay himself. It's absolutely wonderful that in this country any child can dream and hope to become president. It is remarkable, his dreams from third grade can become a reality. Does this not demonstrate an America that works ... when you are committed to your dreams. God bless you Senator Obama and Senator Clinton for bringing this to the public's attention.

This incident reminds us that Hillary isn't all that bright! Shades of flunking her bar exams. Apparently, her spokespeople aren't any smarter than their boss.

"So their seems to be a little more fury behind the punches..." Have "their" and "there" traded definitions in the English language? Do Americans have so little regard for their language? If they're not going to get their language correct, there's little hope there will be any accuracy in any endeavor, including their elections.

"So their seems to be a little more fury behind the punches..." Have "their" and "there" traded definitions in the English language? Do Americans have so little regard for their language? If they're not going to get their language correct, there's little hope there will be any accuracy in any endeavor, including their elections.

When the going gets tough we get a glimpse of the real Hillary. And how her ambition affects her judgement. I'd hope that all candidates for president have had ambition to bcome president for some time and this isn't a whim. But what's important is how that ambition drives their behavior. Behavior is what's important, not what they (actually paid speech writers) say.

I can't believe I'm reading this....attacking someone for what they wrote in KINDERGARTEN? Kindergarten? really? I wouldn't be surprised if they dug up a finger painting Obama did in preschool of a dove and use that to accuse him of being soft on the war on terror right now. I can't believe Clinton's camp managed to put that out with a straight face and expect to be taken seriously...

Of course he's been preparing and planning to run for president, but there is nothing wrong with that. That's one reason, for example, he changed his religion from Islam to Christianity. This country would never elect an overt Muslim, at least at this point in history, and he knew it.

Let me get this straight...they had to go ALL THE WAY BACK to KINDERGARTEN??!!

In the past, all the opponent had to do was go only as far back as the college years to find any 'dirt'. Now, we have to worry about kindergarten?

I haven't had respect for Hillary for quite a few years as it is. I have even less now. Unbelievable.

Obama writing an essay in Kindergarten(?!), or third grade or whatever, called "I Want to be President" is just about the cutest damn thing I've ever seen. It doesn't turn me off to him in the slightest.

As a strong supporter of Obama ever since his breakout speech in July, 2004, I must say that even just the comments at the ends of Swamp articles have changed drastically in 6 months. Hillary, while probably victorious in November, hypothetically, is the wrong answer for our party, and the wrong answer for our nation. And we're starting to realize it.

Ladies and gentlemen, President Obama.

(Thanks, Iowa!)

They're not attacking the fact that he wanted to be president for decades, just pointing out the fact that he has, when he said he hasn't. He was the one that brought up that he "hasn't been planning to run for decades like others" -- B.S. ain't no one running for president that hasn't been planning it for decades. This should be a complete NON ISSUE! and it is now becoming a big deal.... let's talk about the real issues, unemployment, health care etc. that someone who wants to be president should have been thinking about for decades. So, personally I'm fine with the fact that they're both ambitious as all hell and have been thinking about the best way to run this country for decades, I wouldn't want someone in office who just woke up one morning and thought "what the heck, let's run for president"

I'm going to guess that this is a lead in for phase 2. In phase 2 Hillary will whine about a double standard for ambitious women versus ambitious men.

Reading all this pushed me to report that when I tried to renew my Illinois Driver's License last Spring, I was refused because the State records did not match one Social Security record in Maryland, the result of the Patriot Act requiring comparing such records. No help from anyone in getting my records reconciled until I called Senator Obama's Chicago Office which within one day after hanging on their phone with the SS Office in Maryland till they found my file found the typo, corrected it and got me cleared to get my license renewed. And all this after having received my Social Security checks for the past 17 years. Obama sees to it that even trivial local problems like this get fixed, by a staff which is super-competent and responsive! I really like this guy!

Please don't judge all Americans' linguistic accuracy by the mistakes made by this careless writer. I noticed immediately that the entire sentence makes no sense: "So their seems to be a little more fury behind the punches as now that Obama's may have taken the lead in Iowa according to the Des Moines Register's most recent poll.".

Way to show leadership skills Hillary. Let's remember it is her and her type of Democrats that were so imcompetent that they actually let the current administration defeat them not once, but twice in elections. Isn't it time for something new Democrats, so we don't get Cheaney3.0?

Thanks to the Clinton campaign for a good laugh. I won't be voting for her in the primary, so I'm thrilled to see that her staff is focussing their efforts on generating more fodder for The Daily Show.

I didn't know you wrote essays at age 5. I thought you were working on your ABC's, numbers, colors. Poor Hillary, this is all she has? I also heard that she had challenged his character over his HopeFund. This from a woman who paid off Vilsack's debt to get his endorsement. This is really getting pathetic. The Clinton's internal polls must really be heading south for her to come out with this crap.

Mr. Patrick Cropper (from above),

Karl Rove also wrote an op-ed to Hillary advising her on how to win the nomination. He'll probably write one for John Edwards next week. So your talking point here doesn't make any sense. Karl Rove isn't singling out Obama

I just read the comments from Elise. Is she kidding to represent that collection of meaningless busy-body regulation as having any value to anybody? I though at first she must be joking, but on second reading, I'm afraid not. That's modern activist politics. A law for everything and anything, because we're legislators right? So lets pass some laws.Need them or not.

Mrs. Clinton appears desperate. It would be tragic to elect this "abused wife" who doesn't have enough sense to dump her lecherous husband. Can you imagine her being able to stand up to other nations, if she can't stand up to him. Picking on a kindergarten essay only provides further insight in to her warped sense of self.

I always thought Hillary reminded me of the single-minded girl on the playground who runs up to people and twists their arms to try to get what she wants. It's adorable, really. I love it when people show who they really are. What's to hide? You are who you are.

I have a message for Hillary and the Clinton campaign.
Please concern yourself with the real serious issues surrounding us and how you intend to make this world a better place.
This is really reaching. It’s simply a sad and pathetic scenario. Good job Hillary. You and your “advisors” just cost you another vote.
I definitely won’t be voting for Hillary after this half wit situation.

Okay, let's give credit where credit is due. Despite Bill Clinton's problem with controlling his zipper, he was still more capable, and actually did do a better job of governing this country than his successor to which his wife cannot claim any credit for being a part of. Is it safe to assume her aspirations of becoming president materialized while her husband occupied the office? Yes! Nothing wrong with that either. However, to attack Obama because he wrote back in grammar school that he wanted to be president as if something is wrong with this, and expect people to not find it sad and desperate, wrong! The Democratic faithful are starting to become so over and through with Mrs. Clinton that the mass hiatus is akin to rats getting off a sinking sink. If the Democrats want any chance of winning the White House back, it won't happen with Clinton. We have met the party's show-stopper, and she is it. She's not worthy of my vote or the nomination.

A little less than a year before the election, and the Clinton camp is already digging around in Obama's Kindergarten records? Clinton is a desperate, evil woman who will do whatever is necessary to become president; I only hope that Obama has the fortitude to stand up to the evil Clinton Empire.

Oh my, this is just so sad.

Next they will dig up a 1st or 2nd grade essay where Barack said he wanted to be a fireman or an astronaut and then use it show that he's a "flip-flopper".

I'm turning in my citizenship card. Has it gotten that stupid, the quest for power. Doesn't the guy have enough things going against him traditionally that someone has to bring up his grade school papers.

I think it is stupid of the Clinton to be using a essay from someone's past. It will backfire on her. BTW - I do not support Obama either.

Politics like big business is a dirty game. Anyone who thinks that the O'Bama campaign isn't looking for the same kind of story or some kind of dirt on Hillary Clinton is a fool. Look at all the negative stories George Bush and his supporters dreamt up on anyone who got in his way or who criticized him and his campaign. Wake up Americans! Trivial stories such as these does not a President make or break.

Perhaps the Clinton camp should have a staffer researching whether Obama raised any funds in third grade for his presidential run. That would be the real "capper."

It's odd that the Iowa polls turned exactly around the same time I announced my support for Obama here in the SWAMP.

If you think this kind of political mudslinging is new, check your history books. There's an early tradition of candidates lambasting each other in the press; why do you think Alexander Hamilton dueled Aaron Burr? It's all silly, plus media and myriads of blogs blow it all out of proportion. It's too early to get hysterical, just please try to separate fact from hype.

Hillary just lost support. This is beyond the pale, when a campaign goes snooping around looking for grade school compositions?

How utterly ridiculous. Hillary has made calculated moves to enable her to run for president. That is fairly obvious. Rather than ignoring the comments, which her campaign should have done, they made a tactical move that no one can defend.

I personally think that someone who has had the Presidency in mind their whole life might make a darn good President!!

Don't tell Hillary, but when I was in kindergarten I wanted to be the Centerfielder for the Oakland A's... and then in 3rd grade I wanted to be an Astronaut, and in 6th grade I wanted to play Quarterback for the 49ers... I know, I'm such a flip flop artist. :(

Reading this article was literally the best laugh I've had all week. It is utterly, utterly ridiculous to attack someone for saying they wanted to be President in 3rd Grade. It's a complete disconnect with reality and frankly makes me question not only Hillary's judgement but her sanity.

I think it's admirable that Barack always saw himself as President. It's the same dream many children have, to be great people at the top of their profession. Frankly, the misguided attack points out the very essense of the American Dream. Barack Obama is the personification of the American Dream. He's someone who set the loftiest of goals for himself and then went about achieving them. The way he has done it is where the judgement has come in. He's made himself into a great man and frankly, if I could go back in time and see that kid write that essay and shake his hand, I sure would, and I'd also tell him, "you never stop dreaming, because the only one that can make dreams come true... is you."

Wow. I'm awed by Obama, and literally shocked and amused that THIS is how Hillary thinks she can attack him.

He really is going to be the