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

[newleaf]

what a cool guy. You can tell by this action he is a good dad, too. One more reason to love President Obama!

[SiberianRat]

Yep.

[skippy20008]

FOX NEWS HEADLINE:

OBAMA ENCOURAGES YOUNG GIRL NOT TO ATTEND SCHOOL.

[aphid]

LOL

[greymom]

Won't work for them. The FAUX news watchers home school to indoctrinate their kids properly in right wing and religious ideology.

[FebM]

Local Fox sounds more sane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTT2TF81Ctg&feature=player_embedded

But this is one incident where this is applicable (last day of school etc...)
"Never let schooling interrupt your kids education

[LittlePurpleUSA]

Nice story to tell her grandkids!

[FebM]

Woh, Prez Obama can multi-task, he wrote the note while listening to the question, all the time

[moxieme]

Just keep bringin' it to the people, Mr. President. Just keep bringin' it. Hopefully the GOP will get the big picture. We are tired of suffering, we are tired of our country forgetting about the grassroots community. Pontius Pilate was a governor, Jesus Christ was a community organizer. I am not comparing the POTUS to Christ either. The Repubs believe they have some secret communiction with the Lord that all the rest of us believers are denied. It's real twisted, ain't it?

[Haitiana4Obama]

It's called connecting to and empathizing with everyday people. It's the little things that truly matter in this life. Take that Jeff Sessions!

[Harmony1812]

He really listens to people and cares. Love that man

[MichaelMcKLA]

That was very cool. I imagine that note would be acceptable for an absence in any school in the country. LOL

I imagine G.W. Bush would have done something like that, only he'd have an aide write it. He probably knows that he would mess up the language or spelling.

[Promisin1]

Probably not ASU.

[KillBillV2]

Yup!

[tisfilm]

---------BREAKING NEWS----------
HANNITY EDIT WHEN OBAMA GIVES PAPER TO HER TO FORCE FOR BACK TO SCHOOL.

[Sharon Day]

opps... "She was miffed." Great English, oops..

[Sharon Day]

When my daughter found out about the note, she were a little miffed that I didn't get tickets today. I was planning on taking her. But, that will be a great memory and momento for Kennedy. Very cool... :)

[Rangergirl]

I got a kick out of that.....T­he whole incedent was funny.. He spoke very well on health care......­.Public option is a must.....W­e need to get this done NOW.......­..

[Meggie]

Phone calls to all players - your own senators and reps, and then the white house, and then other sens like Baucus, Landreau, Nelson, etc., who want to keep for-profit insurance and not really change anything. Disturbing that the numbers of callers still are not where they need to be.

[KLordsha]

I saw this live. Our Pres is a class act.

[gogirlaz]

YOU GOTTA LOVE HIM!!!

Thank God we NOW have a president we can be proud of.

[Harmony1812]

He helps make up for the last president.

[DnDCfromChi-town]

I concur

[Bluejay00234]

Anyone know if there is video of this?

[mapleaforever]

Scroll down.

[Miki Turner]

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY9793NCGxI

[guyfrombrooklyn]

Finally the Commander in Chief is not above the people,

but walks WITH the people.

it's not hard to say HE is the CHANGE we've BEEN WAITING FOR.

[Haitiana4Obama]

Exactly he is the people's President, a true leader for and from the people. We are so blessed.

[guyfrombrooklyn]

This is why he puts a real face on the job of Prez.

Everyone in politics should take notes.

and stop being...fo­r lack of better words...je­alous, sour grapes losers.

[smchp]

They would have to be able to speak on facts first. Quit a stretch from the utter horsesheit they pull out of their collective a$$es daily.