“When I decided to run for president, I accepted that my opponents would dig through my record looking for something to attack. I didn’t realize they’d go all the way back to kindergarten.” In keeping with their previously announced New Negativity, the Clinton campaign actually digs up dirt on Obama’s kindergarten ambitions. (Two days after the press release in question, now that it’s not playing so hot in the media, pollster Mark Penn claims it was a joke.) Desperate much? Well, before anybody throws a tantrum, two new polls put Clinton still in the lead in Iowa, by 5% and 7% respectively. Maybe that’ll help put an end to this type of sorry stunt by Team Hillary in the future. (By the way, I have no plans to ever run for anything, but just in case it comes up someday (and a la Edwards): When I was in kindergarten I wanted to be Han Solo.)
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This little flap is about character – Obama’s character. It started with his charge that Hilary is only interested in the Presidency because of her life-long ambition. That may or may not be so. The point is that Obama too has a long record of Presidential ambition. The document dump by the Clinton campaign provided the evidence of that and the Kindergarten piece of it was only a small part of that document dump. The point being – Is it good character to damn someone for the same ambition that one has oneself?
I will concede that including the K piece of the evidence was politically unwise because it allowed Obama to spin the refutation his way.
Striker, I understand what the Clinton campaign was originally trying to do — push back on Obama’s relatively innocuous aside: “I’m not running to fulfill some long held plans,’ he said. ‘I’m not running because I feel it’s owed to me.’”
Since you concede the kindergarten oppo research was tremendously stupid and reinforced the strong negative perception out there about the Clinton campaign — that they’ll stoop to just about anything in order to win — then I’ll just table that discussion for risk of repeating myself.
If your main character issue concerning this incident is not Clinton’s sad resort to kindergarten dreams but Obama’s pot-calling-the-kettle-black…Well, then I presume you’re equally chagrined about Clinton attacking Obama’s experience (Obama’s logged more time in the legislature), questioning the universality of his health-care plan (the differences are negligible), and insinuating illegalities surrounding his Hope Fund PAC (a.k.a. the Obama version of Hillary’s HILLPAC, except Clinton chose to stockpile her assets in 2006 rather than spend for a Dem Congress.)