Originally Posted By: MEM
Clinton wasn't attacking Obama for his work in Kindergarten but his claim that he never planned to be President.


Heh. Apparently MEM didn't get the latest Clinton memo. Rather than try and keep justifying their attack, now the campaign is claiming it was just a joke:

  • Mark Penn, Hillary's chief strategist... appeared on today's Morning Joe, and talked soon turned to the release. No fewer than four times, Penn tried to pass off the to-all-appearances dead serious kindergarten citation as a "joke"


However, as Newsbusters' Mark Finklestein notes, "There's only one small problem with Penn's 'it was just a joke' claim. It's untrue. "

  • Have a look at the Hillary release, here. It sets out five items as counter-evidence to Obama's claim that he had not been planning to run for president for many years. The items about essays he wrote as a third-grader and kindergartner are presented in precisely the same fashion as the other points. Absolutely nothing, in either word or graphic presentation, sets them apart or in any other way suggests they are presented as a joke.


Maybe Obama should follow suit and accuse Hillary of being a "liar liar pants on fire"? ;\)