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

[Wendy Dyke]

Every time this man starts to make me worried with his actions he does something like this showing him to be just a good person.

This is the story of a lifetime for that little girl.

[smchp]

Stop watching Faux Noise. Problem solved.

[Tactical Grace]

When the country needed it most the right man stepped forward. His every act makes the Republicans look more and more petty and mean spirited. I for one see huge changes in American politics and international opinion ahead.

[tisfilm]

Obama Protest in Green Bay was so N.U.T
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYnat7vHIbc

[impik]

He is so above all the viciousness around him. Just a really good guy with a big heart. And, a year from now, people will admit that he's a great president too.

[Tommy Tischler]

He is very serious guy. He might don't like to see kids absence from school. But I think that's cool He actually wrote paper to the girl.

[notthistime]

You are right Tommy Tischler. It is probably the professor in him. :-)

[Harmony1812]

She was getting a wonderful lesson. If the teacher could she would probably take the entire class.

[shtoonk]

Obama kicked phuckin' ASS with this one. Talk about the King Of Cool!!!
Notice: He's got a comedic deadpan touch, which was a riot.
Notice: He can actually do two things at once...write the note, pay attention to the question.
Notice: Read the note. It's the epitome of COOOOL!!!!!!!!

I LOVE THIS GUY!!!!!!!!!!

[Wendy Sachs]

That just rocks! Wish that could've happened to me!

[Bluejay00234]

LOL, and how old are you?

[Patricia Shipp]

With all of the infighting between our politicians -- who embarass us and the nation everyday -- Pres. Obama makes us proud, and sets an example.

[Harmony1812]

And then there are conservatives who look really childish, ill tempered, and uneducated. Did anyone ever tell them that if they can't say something nice just don't say anything? Obama makes them look so foolish just by his example.

[bebrave]

Never short on earnestness and sincerity. What a guy!

[ThomasMc]

I'm not a big Obama fan, but he does do more cool things in a single day than the previous president has done in his entire life.

[EvasDaddy]

I agree with your comment, which makes me curious about your skepticism.

Obama is our democratically elected president, so you're stuck with him for awhile. What will it take to make you a "fan"?

[SonnyBono]

The reason is simple - Obama is cool so he does what comes naturally - whereas Bush Jr. tried to appear cool but his mentor was Karl Rove and Dick Cheney who both think waterboarding is cool.

[CardboardBox]

In case people want the video without watching the entire town hall meeting:

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0609/too_cool_for_school_6386336b-470d-471c-ae69-6b16c9878071.html

But you really should watch the town hall discussion.

[Haitiana4Obama]

Thanks!

[StopGlobalWarmingBeVegan]

So glad I campaign for this great man.

[SDindependent]

Me too........ now keep the campaign going and call some Dem congressmen and let them know if they don't get on board with a public option in health care YOU intend to campaign against them in their next election. Make grass roots count .

[tgh86]

I happened to catch this on CNN. There he was writing out the note while taking the guy's (pretty lengthy) question. We've come a long way from "Is our children learning?"

[bungalow]

This reminds me of that story of how he generously bought a ticket for a woman at the airport who had inadvertently gotten stranded, and how he wrote her parents back a lovely note after they paid him back. This president makes me so proud, every single day.

[impatient]

You failed to point out this was long before he was in politics. i think he was a law student at Harvard at the time! Not exactly rolling in dough!

[harriscrl3]

Somehow I dont think that Note is leaving her hands and being passed on to her teacher. Or at least NOT the original LOL.

This guy is just too cool for school

Carol

[Just2stressed]

I did read where she said she's going to copy it and give the teacher the copy, then frame the original. Too funny!

[digitalprophet]

Pretty cool. Obama never runs low on Awesome... =P