Obama claims he hasn't been planning to run for President. The facts suggest he is dissembling.

[Karmadillo]

The Clinton campaign documents all the way back to Kindergarten. I think Clinton has to do this, but the three way fight is going to make for a long December. It will be interesting to see who benefits from the bloodletting.

http://facts.hillaryhub.com/archive/?id=4468

Sen. Obama Rewrites History, Claims He Hasn’t Been Planning White House Run
12/2/2007 4:50:46 PM

“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. Senator Obama’s campaign rhetoric is getting in the way of his reality.” —Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer

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.”

However, the facts don't back up Sen. Obama’s claim.

Immediately after joining the Senate, Sen. Obama started planning to run for President:

"'The first order of business for Obama's team was charting a course for his first two years in the Senate. The game plan was to send Obama into the 2007-2008 election cycle in the strongest form possible,' writes Mendell in his forthcoming bio Obama: From Promise to Power...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 Sen. 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>

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[jefferson_dem]

1. Thanks to the Hillary campaign for telling us how Hillary, not Obama, should be Prez...

Another gem from Hillaryhubbabubba.com.

[bunnies]

2. Going all the back to kindergarten...

this. is. silly.

Im completely shocked that the Clinton campaign thought this was a good approach. In a way... it makes Obama more attractive to me as a candidate.

A kindergartener isnt exactly "planning" to be president. If that were the case, I think I "planned" to be a ballerina.

edit: clarity

[MadBadger]

3. If you think she had to do this, you are just as pathetic as she is in this attack

They are attacking him from KINDERGARTEN.

[Karmadillo]

5. No. They are attacking him for what he said today.

nt

[Mass]

4. Got to be kidding. Kindergarten. She should have her head examined...

I read the same claims concerning Kerry in 04 (not the KG story, but everything else). It was totally stupid for somebody who waits 18 years as a US senator before he runs for president. Of course, Obama was faster, but the sources are the same, some classmates who think they remember, and NOW, a KG essay (????).

[AtomicKitten]

6. I heard he used to act up at nap time in kindergarten.

[BringBigDogBack]

7. This is rediculous

and it is making Hillary, and supporters trying to justify it look juvenile.

One post on this wasn't enough eh? Have at it.

[Bullet1987]

8. I'm laughing my ass off right now...wow...

[madrchsod]

9. third grade too!

wow what a damming revelation!