One time, in 3rd gradeFollow

That's some serious research skills they're putting to use.

Essays in Kindergarten?

When in kindergarten you had not yet had a 'summer' vacation. We were just learning to make a circle with a line on it and to call it an 'a'.

I learned to read quick, but I don't think I could have read the word 'vacation' at age 4. Not too mention write an essay about it.

Maybe we were teh dumb in MN??

I think Elinda refers to...
"In kindergarten, Senator Obama wrote an essay titled 'I Want to Become President.’..."

Of course, he did go to a Muslim terrorist training camp for his elementary education. So maybe summer vacation essays are stressed there.

Well, hell. Good for him for having the wherewithal to write essays of any type in kindergarten.

When I was in kindergarden, I drew a picture of me and a girl in my class in the shower together. It's a good thing I'm not running for President, or I'd likely be accused of being a pedOphile.

I once wrote a short story in the 3rd-4th grade about the American Revolution or the American Civil War, I forget which (it had to do with a musket ball), written from the point of view from a wounded soldier.

I described, vividly, the shock of not being able to feel my leg, nor move my arms, and then I wrote how the people mercy killed me, in spite of my protests, but it was as if I was mute...






I don't know why they decided to pull me out to the side and ask me all those questions, and bring my mother into it.........

What a koinkydink!

When I was at kindergarten. . .

Oh, hang on. I played with worms, pulled girls' pigtails, made mud-pies and generally played like a wild puppy whilst resisting any attempt at education or discipline.

My experience of 'child prodigies' is that their parents are usually unhelpfully pushy, and once they enter adolescence/adulthood, they often turn into socially dysfunctional nerds who live with their parents beyond the age of 30.

A significant proportion of the successful people I know (by which I mean finacially successful whilst having a fulfilling life and being nationally or internationally recognised as leaders in their field) were late developers. Not representative or statistically significant, I know, but that's been my experience.

My reaction is probably not typical, but it goes something like this:

Is that the worst they could dig up on this guy? Seriously?


It's tough to good opposition research when your opponent is 1) A darkie and you're counting on lots of brown votes. 2) Someone who "writes" fluffy throw away semibiographical books where he admits to doing coke as a boy. and 3) Is very clean. Ask Biden.

When I was in third grade we had to write a "how to do something" I wrote about how to assemble a two phase fusion bomb.

Edited, Dec 3rd 2007 6:05pm by Smasharoo

It's like she's running with the same staff and everything.

They DO hint that English was not his first language.