Friday, August 14, 2009

11-year-old interviews President Obama

11-year-old Damon Weaver has been making a name for himself as a budding student reporter since last year when he started doing television reports for his elementary school TV news program - Canal Point Elementary / KEC TV. Though Weaver has impressively managed to interview big names like Oprah Winfrey, Caroline Kennedy, Samuel L. Jackson, and even Vice President Joe Biden (among others) - his real goal was to land the biggest interview of all - Barack Obama. Weaver started an online campaign to rally support for his cause, asking people to help him convince President Obama to give him an interview. Miami Heat star Dwayne Wade even offered to play Obama in a game of one-on-one if he would agree to be interviewed by the determined 11-year-old.

Months of persistent effort later, all the hard work paid off, and Weaver finally had the opportunity to interview the President in the White House. Donning a suit as sharp as Obama's, Weaver asked Obama some tough questions about education, and how he handles being bullied all the time.

Watch the full interview here:




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP-695ATg-c

2 comments:

Real Estate NYC said...

Great Article!!! I was very happy to ready it all. thanks for the info.

From http://www.InsideRater.com

hank said...

SOME WEHERE IN CHASE BANK IN THE SMART DEPARTMENT THE SMARTER CEO CALLED THE LES SMARTER

AND TOLD HIME I WANT U TO RAISE THE INTREST FOR H. NAE VISA ,

LES SMARTER : BUT SIR WHY WE DO THAT? HE IS PAYING ON TIME NEVER LATE?

SMARTER : WE GOING TO RAISE IT CUZ THE NEW LAW IS COMING,

LES SMARTER : BUT HE IS A GOOD CUSTEMER WHY WE DO IT?

SMARTER CUZ' WE CAN AND STOP ASKING JUST RAISE IT TO 20%

LES SMARTER : WHAT IF HE CAN'T PAY?

SMARTER : THEN WE CLOSE ALL HIS CHASE VISA CARDS.

LES SMARTER : BUT ALL THIS CARDS HE PAY ALL OF THEM , NEVER LATE,

SMARTER : YEA BUT HE HAVE TOO MANY CARDS,

LES SMARTER : YEA BUT WE THE ONE WHO OFFER HIME AND GIVE HIME LOW %,

SMARTER : YEA BUT THAT WAS THEN AND WE ARE NOW,

LES SMARTER: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE LINE OF CREDIT ....1799 WE FROZE HIS CREDIT WITH NO

REASON, AND LINE OF BUSINESS IS TO HELP SMALL BUSINESS, MAYBE WE SHOULD HELP

SMALL BUISENESS , DIDN'T OBAMA SAID SO?

SMARTER: OBAMA SHMOBAMA WHO CARE , HE GIVE US BILLIONS NOW ITS OURS ,

LES SMARTER : SIR U THINK IT IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS?

SMARTER : WHY U THINK THEY PAY ME $100,000,000.

LES SMARTER : YES SIR U RIGHT U THE SMARTER ONE.

few days later....................................

LES SMARTER WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE SMART ONE WILL NOT THINK THAT HE IS

WEEK, SO HE CAME UP WITH AN IDEA, HE WENT TO THE SMART ONE AND SAID:

SIR WHAT THIS SMALL BUISNESS GUY WILL GO TO THE MEDIA AND TELL HIS STORY....

THE SMARTER STOP HIM RIGHT AWAY .." WHAT MEDIA ? WE PAY THEM MILLIONS FOR

ADVERTIZING NOW WE CAME TO HELP CALIFORNIA TO MOVE UP, NO ONE WILL PAY ATTENTION

TO HIM, BUT U CAN SEND HIM A LETTER THAT BY RIZING HIS % WE HELPING HIM, HE IS LIKE

THE WHITE GUYS IN THE WASHINGTON MUTUAL COMMERCIAL. "

LES SMARTER : " SIR IN THAT COMERCIAL WE MAKE WHITE PPL BANKERS LOOK BAD:

SMARTER : NO I MEAN THAT LITTLE BUSINESS GUY NO ONE CARE ",

LES SMARTER BUT THEY STOP IT CUZ IT WAS A BAD RACIAL ADVERTIZE, AND HE CAN GO

ON THE INTERNET AND TELL THE STORY."

SMARTER : I HEAT THE INTERNET, WE CAN'T CONTROLL IT .. O.K. O.K. SEND A STUPID

LETTER AFTER ALL HE IS NOT SMART AS I AM,

LES SMARTER : O.K. SO IT WAS A GOOD IDEA? SIR ...SIR U HEAR ME?

SMARTER: UR IDEA ???? WHO U THINK U R ...?

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