OBAMA signs excuse slips for students.

[boston bean]

Instead of telling them they were wrong to skip school, he signs an excuse slip, and the students get suspended.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/913104,CST-NWS-diner24.stng

SCRANTON, Pa. -- Two high school seniors are paying a high price for their interest in politics.

Colin Saltry and Joey Daniel say they skipped gym class on Monday to rush over to a diner where Sen. Barack Obama's motorcade pulled in.

The two met Obama, and they say he even signed excuse slips for them to show their teachers.

That didn't work. Saltry and Daniel got one-day suspensions for leaving school grounds. AP

[GarbagemanLB]

1. EXCUSE SLIP GATE!

[MadBadger]

2. Thanks Tracy

[gmudem]

3. LOL really

I'm sure it was worth getting suspended to talk to the future president.

[Occam Bandage]

5. I'd have taken that offer in a heartbeat senior year.

[Occam Bandage]

4. I'm glad he's encouraging an interest in politics among youth.

I hope they hung onto the slips; they'll be worth saving.

[glowing]

6. Well worth the suspension.. the better question is why wasn't the whole

school there for a learning lesson?

[thunder rising]

7. Well they can get pardons early next year! (They were SENIORS, probably 18 yrs old)

[tokenlib]

8. paying a "high price"--they are both proud civic minded students--

--and most of us are proud of them!! :)

[tritsofme]

9. I think going out and meeting the man who very well may be our next President

is a little more important than missing a gym class in high school.

At least in my opinion.

You can play dodge ball any day, how often do you have the opportunity to meet someone who may be the next POTUS?

[book_worm]

10. they had already skipped school and Obama was letting the teacher know where they were

He had nothing to do with them getting suspended for a day that was up to the school. But leave it to somebody like you to blame Obama for corrupting these students by not lecturing them.

[anselmo]

11. One absence won't make them fail

If they had taken a week off, I'd be concerned. But one day off won't affect their grades.

[Emit]

12. Shit. I would've pulled my kids out of school to let them see Obama

and would've written a note for them myself.

This is stupid.

[boston bean]

13. That's your decision, not obama's. nt

[onenote]

20. he didn't tell them to leave the school

and once they left the grounds, they were in trouble, whether Obama wrote "excuse" them on their notes or not. So what does this have to do with him?

If I wasn't familiar with your posts, I wouldn't think you were serious about this. Sadly, however, I know that you are.

[boston bean]

28. He has no authority to give them a signed excuse for absence. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

32. Which is why the school didn't accept the excuse.

So what's your point?

[onenote]

33. It was a joke. A concept you don't seem to understand.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303679.html

See the little exclamation points next to "excuse Joey" and "excuse Colin". Do you think Obama thought it had any force. If anything it was a lighthearted plea for mercy on behalf of the students. A request that they should be excused. Which they weren't, which is okay. The students themselves were okay with it.

Not so much with stripping one of them from his position as class president, which seems like major overkill. But I'm sure your okay with that.

[Emit]

38. I hereby grant Obama the authority to sign my kids excuse slip.

There. Is that better?

[bhikkhu]

14. I would have done the same, and taken my suspension as well worth it....

[endarkenment]

15. OH NOES AGAIN! WHAT WILL HE DO NEXT?

Scandal after scandal! Where is my flag pin? I have to jam it pin first into my chest to show my remorse!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. How much is Clinton charging for her autographs?

She must really need the money.

[onenote]

17. Well, string him up.

Of course, not everyone feels that way:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303679.html

[Faygo Kid]

18. Breathless with anticipation here: Did he sign them Barack Hussein Obama?

Did he use his middle name, to show he's really a Muslim?

Or did he write "God Damn America" on the slips, to show he's a Christian?

How can we keep track? I'm so confused.

(What a pantload. So this is where we are. Nice.)

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[onenote]

24. And if it had been Hillary

If it had been Hillary, I'm sure she would've grabbed them both by the ears and marched them straight back into the principals office and demanded that they be given the maximum punishment.

Right?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

26. If it had been Hillary...

the kid would have rather sat through math class.

[onenote]

30. point well taken (although it was gym and english class I believe)

we need to have the facts straight in case George and Charlie interview Obama again. I'm sure this will come up.

[DarienComp]

31. Clap clap point point.

[Shakespeare]

36. Stalker. n/t

[SemiCharmedQuark]

37. Why are you posting pics of DUers?

It's not clever. It's creepy.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

21. They can sell the slips on eBay and donate the money to Hillary's campaign.

I heard she needs it.

[JackORoses]

22. you are a damned fool!

This Primary cannot end soon enough.
The Hillarites are spiraling into Dementia.

[blogslut]

23. Weak

When I was a senior in high school, our Mayor, a graduate, came to speak at a ceremony commemorating the school's 20th anniversary. At the end of the speech he said:

"I've been waiting 20 years to say this: CLASS DISMISSED"

The majority of us spent the rest of the day driving around town, laughing our asses off while we listened to the Superintendent, begging us to come back to class.

Your outrage is almost as laughable.

[onenote]

25. wrong.

The OP's "outrage" is more laughable.

[blogslut]

34. Well, I guess you had to be there

:)

[DarienComp]

27. You'd find fault in Obama having a cup of coffee if you could get away with it.

[dchill]

29. Yet another massive ObamaScandal exposed...

by MassDemm! Look out, Matt Drudge!

[wellstone dem]

35. This happened to my daughter in an anti war protest.

Except her grade was dropped 1% (apparently that's the punishment for skipping school classes.)

I told her I'd never been more proud.

My 78 year old Mom said she had never been more proud of her.

Her principal said she was proud of her, and especially since she was the only student who actually came back to class once the protest was over.

[GodlessBiker]

39. As long as he didn't sign their parents name, it's fine.