This is better than the time President Clinton got me out of gym

Obama writes girl a note for missing school
By Ryan J. Foley, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin - 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 student 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.

Everyone knows I'm a big Obama fan but I've got to say he comes off like a pretty pompous jerk here. Don't you think the note should have explained that the girl was at a town hall meeting? Whats with this 'she's with me' crap. So if President Obama wanted to scoop a 14-year-old girl up and go the ice skating rink would that be okay? I think we're going down a slippery slope here.