HILLARY'S UGLY 'JOKE'

December 6, 2007 -- "It's enough to make your head explode - Team Clinton's astonishing press release about Barack Obama's grade- school essays.

Yep - grade school.

Countering an Obama jibe about a certain senator's "long-held plans" to run for president, Hillary's well-oiled opposition-research machine accessed its multi-terabyte database - accusing Obama of "rewriting history" by ignoring his own lingering interest in the White House.

The evidence?

A pair of essays he'd written - one back in 3rd grade and the other when he was even younger.

"In kindergarten," deadpanned the Clinton release, "Sen. Obama wrote an essay titled 'I want to Become President.' "

"So who's not telling the truth?" demanded Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer.

Really.

Naturally, the other candidates are having a field day: John Edwards confessed that in the 3rd grade, he'd wanted to be both a cowboy and Superman.

And Obama's camp said it was preparing to counter any suggestion that he'd flip-flopped from his 2nd-grade dreams of becoming an astronaut.

Actually, this is all just a little bit spooky, to tell the truth.

Because it's entirely possible that Team Clinton's actual message was meant to be something like: "If we know what you did in kindergarten, Sen. Obama, just imagine what else we know about you. You'll tread lightly, if you're wise."

And that would be ironic - given the years Hillary Clinton has spent decrying what she claims are smear campaigns directed at her.

But those complaints ring a little hollow when you've got your staff ferreting out your opponents' grade-school homework assignments.

What will we learn next?

That John McCain once held a playmate's head under a water faucet - thus undercutting his professed opposition to waterboarding?

That Joe Biden's plagiarism problems began when he copied one of his 1st-grade classmates' spelling-test answers?

As the ridicule mounted, Clinton's pollster Mark Penn finally claimed the press release had been a joke, professing his amazement that anyone had taken it seriously.

Right.

It was a joke.

But it wasn't wrong.

Message delivered.

And, no doubt, received."

The Clinton Library, AKA "Sex, Drugs, And Rock & Roll On Pennsylvania Avenue", has been up and running for 3 years now and we STILL haven't seen the list of donors.

Private stuff, the Clinton's tell us. Mind your own beeswax. None of yer danged bizness. Because, as consummate liberals, it is only THEIR privacy that is sacrosanct. Hillary's memo's and paperwork and records while ensconced in the First Lady's office? Same deal. And of course they'd love to make Barack believe they've ALL the goods on his uppity black ass. This is also what the Clinton's do, and do so very well.

The ones they cannot sic lawyers upon or bribe away, they intimidate.