Over at Polysigh, John J. Pitney, Jr. questions the Obama kindergarten essay that I (among others) mocked Hillary Clinton’s campaign for using against him:

Bloggers and reporters are ridiculing the attack. As a political scientist and former oppo guy, I wonder why such a well-organized campaign made such a blunder.

As the father of a five-year-old, I have a different question: Was Obama really writing essays in kindergarten? Even under today’s ridiculously ramped-up kindergarten standards, kids are doing great if they can scrawl letters or the occasional word. And Obama attended back in the 1960s.

So there are three possibilities here:

• First, his kindergarten class was very advanced;
• Second, he was extremely precocious; or
• Third, the teacher just made the whole thing up.

He’s right — it does sound fishy.