Edwards Reveals His Third Grade Ambitions

Kids are ambitious little creatures. Being one not too long ago myself, I remember wanting to be in a whole assortment of professions, from sports to politics and beyond. Well so did the candidates who are now running for President. As the jokes are flying around about Hillary's campaign using Obama's kindergarten paper saying he wanted to be President as evidence to refute that he hadn't always had dreams of running the free world, you know everyone is going to jump in on this.

Edwards was no exception:

The biggest laugh of the afternoon came when Edwards mocked an attempt by one of his rivals, Hillary Clinton, to cast doubt on the truthfulness of another, Barack Obama. Edwards noted reports that after Obama said he hadn’t always wanted to win the White House, Clinton’s campaign countered with news that when he was in third grade, Obama wrote a theme saying he wanted to be president.

Edwards grinned as he recounted the Clinton campaign’s allegation. “I want to confess to all of you right now,” he told his audience, “in third grade, I wanted to be two things: I wanted to be a cowboy, and I wanted to be Superman.”

Hmm, sounds like a machismo thing to me. Forget policies, positions and principles, if a guy wants to be Superman as a kid, then clearly he is not capable of being President, the world needs more superheroes, not politicians.