Ok "kindergate" provided us with a good laugh as well as some insight to the depths that Hillary's campaign will go to stop Obama from taking away the nomination they feel thier entitled to. So you'd think the Clinton team would sort of admit they went a bit overboard and wait for the news cycle to change which is what most campaigns do when they make a rhetorical mistake. Well that's not what happened they now say the whole thing was a JOKE!http://thepage.time.com/mark-penn-talks-about-clintons-obama-strategy-on-msnbc/
Now we here from the NY times reporter on the scence, it turns out "kindergate" was no laughing matter.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/...
In rather head-spinning fashion, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign is now saying that it was only joking when it noted on Sunday that one of her rivals, Barack Obama, wrote an essay in kindergarten titled, "I want to become president." The Clinton camp’s reference to Mr. Obama’s kindergarten musings has been widely mocked over the last 48 hours, and now her campaign is defending itself by arguing that it was all a joke.
The Clinton campaign sends out jokey press releases from time to time; reporters who cover her know when the campaign is kidding and when it is notMoreover, Clinton advisers on Sunday sounded deadly serious when they referred to the kindergarten essay – which was highlighted in an effort to hit back on Mr. Obama’s statement that day that some of his opponents had wanted to be president for many years. His aides say he was referring to news reports, particularly in a recent biography of Mrs. Clinton, that she has wanted to be president for many years.
Now they've made the error worse, they are flat out lying about the issue and the press will call them on it meaning more negative stories for days to come. What has happened to the vaunted Hillary campaign?