Obama Writes Note For Fourth Grader Playing Hooky To Attend Town Hall

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Ten-year-old Kennedy Corpus has a rock-solid excuse for missing the last day of school: a personal note to her teacher from President Barack Obama.

Her father, John Corpus of Green Bay, stood to ask Obama about health care during the president's town hall-style meeting at Southwest High School on Thursday. He told Obama that his daughter was missing school to attend the event and that he hoped she didn't get in trouble.

"Do you need me to write a note?" Obama asked. The crowd laughed, but the president was serious.

On a piece of paper, he wrote: "To Kennedy's teacher: Please excuse Kennedy's absence. She's with me. Barack Obama." He stepped off the stage to hand-deliver the note _ to Kennedy's surprise.

"I thought he was joking until he started walking down," Kennedy said after the event, showing off the note in front of a bank of television cameras. "It was like the best thing ever."

The fourth-grader at Aldo Leopold elementary in Green Bay already knew what she was going to do with the note: frame it along with her ticket to the event. She said she'd make a copy for her teacher.

Kennedy said she had never seen Obama before. "He's really nice," she said.

Comments

[yomamadrama]

01:54 PM on 06/13/2009

awwwwwwwwwww...that is just so dang cute. What a great guy , I mean he is just the coolest of the cool. Man ,I just think that he is the best president and sooo dreamy too!
Now , if he could just stop the runaway spending and stop closing down car dealerships and forcing small businesses to close and unemployment numbers to skyrocket that would be great!
come on people, he wrote a note for a little girl to miss school so he could tell her about his socialistic health plan that won't work . Lets put things in perspective!

[mmgbizgirl]

11:04 AM on 06/13/2009

You did good Mr. President. That kid will be forever changed by that moment. I love that our children admire you so.

[myworld]

01:40 AM on 06/13/2009

That was so thoughtful and cute.........

[PDXTransplant]

01:32 PM on 06/12/2009

Oh boy, the right will spin this one like there's no tomorrow. Squinty-eyed Sean will have a whole show on it, but of course it will be cropped.

[JeanUK]

12:51 PM on 06/12/2009

Obama's the gift that keeps giving.

God Bless(ed) America.

[KipRip]

12:42 PM on 06/12/2009

and without a teleprompter!

[JeanUK]

12:54 PM on 06/12/2009

Bad joke.

[CeeCee]

01:00 PM on 06/12/2009

Not just bad, but so very tired and used up. Shows a distinct lack of imagination.

[katcrap]

01:40 PM on 06/12/2009

Not only is it a bad joke, it's really stupid - because anchor news people
and others who are taping or filming usually reads from a teleprompter.

What bugs the hell out of the haters is that President Obama is the BEST ever
in reading a teleprompter. It's running them crazzzzy. LOL

[kannita]

01:20 PM on 06/12/2009

At least he can read complete sentences from one. Especially ones that run on and on and on (I cringe every time I read one of Palins speeches)!

[DKLabRat]

12:32 PM on 06/12/2009

LOL. That's so cute.

[Marina56]

12:28 PM on 06/12/2009

It was very cute. I love his dry sense of humor.

[lazercat2008]

11:54 AM on 06/12/2009

Faux News Special Report....

Obama promotes school drop outs.

[JeanUK]

12:41 PM on 06/12/2009

Love it. lol.

[elthelight]

11:52 AM on 06/12/2009

"Actions speak louder than words"! President Obama's actions and responses to every situation will eventually silence the mouths of the lions that continuously try to devour him. Their efforts will remain futile because the President is daily disarming his opposition by overcoming evil with good!

[baudelairien]

11:51 AM on 06/12/2009

"Liberals: Soft on truancy"

[reno1190]

06:06 PM on 06/12/2009

RETHUGS ABSENT 1-12 GWB GREAT EXAMPLE ,MY PET GOAT

[motoGpifupleez]

11:51 AM on 06/12/2009

What do you want to bet that teacher will cause a stink, demanding the girl turn the note over to hem on the grounds "It's addressed to ME"?

[madatnewsmedia]

11:58 AM on 06/12/2009

LOL! But so true!!

[impik]

11:46 AM on 06/12/2009

Sweetest thing ever.

[CheekySpoon]

11:35 AM on 06/12/2009

Umm Mr. President, can I get an excuse note to miss the entire summer semester!?

[shanester]

11:32 AM on 06/12/2009

What a classy guy the President is. That girl will remember this for the rest of her life!

Great story!

FOX certainly won't pick this up of course!

[MalloMel]

11:44 AM on 06/12/2009

If the do manage to pick it up, they'll definitely put a negative spin on it.

[rabiddog6708]

11:49 AM on 06/12/2009

They will spin it to say Obama pard0ns truant child.