Fox News is on the story which originated, like most news about people under 21, on a social-networking site:
ItÂ’s a controversy involving a president and a would-be commander in chief.
But the president, in this case, is an 18-year-old Pennsylvania high school student who claims he was forced to resign as head of his senior class because he skipped gym and left school to see Democratic presidential would-be Barack Obama.
Colin Saltry, a Scranton High School senior, and fellow classmate Joey Daniel reportedly bolted school on Monday to catch a glimpse of the Illinois senator during a campaign stop at “The Glider” restaurant, just minutes away from their school.
Saltry and Daniel say they met Obama, snapped photos with him, and even had the candidate sign excuse slips to present to their teachers.
But their decision to skip out did not sit well with school administrators, who said the students broke the rules by leaving school without permission.
Mr. Saltry is apparently going to be forced to resign as class president, but the Colin Saltry for President page on Facebook is hopping.
The group site, which claims to be the official site for Saltry’s future presidential campaign — “sometime in the next 40 years” — was inundated with postings Wednesday by students angered over their classmate’s punishment.
Sneaking out of class is one thing; but bringing back a permission slipped signed by Barack Obama? Brilliant. Somebody send this kid a copy of Capitalism and Freedom or God and Man at Yale.