May 12, 2008 -
An 11-year-old Kentucky boy sold his bicycle and his video game collection in order to raise money for Senator Hillary Clinton's flagging presidential campaign, according to the Associated Press.Dalton Hatfield presented a check for $440 to former president Bill Clinton on Friday following a campaign rally in West Virginia:
“You sold your bike to get this?” [President] Clinton asked the McAndrews, Ky. native...
Hatfield feels so strongly that Hillary Clinton should be the next president he not only sold his bicycle, but video games and anything else he could find that “I could make money with” to donate to the former first lady’s bid for the Democratic nomination.
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I agree entirely, as I asked earlier, how many games does an 11-year old buy?. That's not his money he is giving to her, it is his mothers, but his mother thinks it looks better coming from the kid. The kids quite happy, I bet if you check up on him this time next year, he'll have all new games and all new bike.
$440 worth of stuff is a big deal for an 11 year old. I remember when that was considered a huge amount of money to me. Something about this says that his parents gave him an incentive to do this (which the article wouldn't mention).
Poor kid, if the Clintons don't return the money I will be really pissed off at them.
Well, more the I already am..
yup.
You're not alone,I also think this year's crop of candidates sucked ass.
This kid must've been coned into this by his parents,because I don't think I even knew who our President was when I was 11,and my friends probably didn't have a rats ass of scant knowledge either.The point is,most average kids don't know or care about politics at that age,it usually isn't until they're 13-14+ yrs. of age that they do,or it's like what everyone else is saying and it's a stunt to try and save what little faith they still have in their doomed campaign(they being the Clintons).
Looks like that strategy is paying off. CHA-CHING!
She can even claim that the kid selling his bike was 'economic stimulus'
This is what worries me. I feel an itch on the back of my neck that this was more of a parental publicity stunt than anything else, and that would be truly tragic. I hope I'm wrong.
I give thousands to politicians yearly. I meet all the candidates when they come through my part of the US. What have you done, that you can talk down to the people who post here?
Chances are, you do jack shit.
Hatfields and McCoys. Down south feudalism, oldschool shit.
Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"!
Cookie, please! :D
And then, of course, there is the fact that Hillary has already lost..
So he's giving away all of his things to lower the amount of deby that Hillary has to deal with after her failed campaign?
Also this isn't the first case something like this has happend, the washington post had an article on it last october. The link if you want it
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR200710...
Tiny Tim, complete with a crutch for his bad leg, has wanted one special toy for as long as he can remember, he works so hard on his [paper route / lemonade stand / 18th century coal mining job] and despite being desperately poor and helping his sick grandmother, he finally brings his huge jar of pennies to the toystore and walks out the proud owner of his dream toy. When he gets home, he hears about someone sad and shivering in the christmas cold (probably the little match girl freezing to death) and he finally comes to the realisation that worldly goods aren't as important as inner goodness and donates the money to a cause he believes in.
"God bless us every one"
Roll Credits
This story literally makes me sick to my stomach.
Somehow i dont think the kid was given a choice from his parents who where in all probibility paid by a hilliry hired press company (Note: if the kid actually did this out of their own free will with no outside pressures or influences that would shock me, and blow my mind)
What is wrong with you people, conceding defeat to a theocracy? You're on a downward spiral and when you see someone taking part in the democratic process, you look down on them like you have any insight of your own.
When I was 11 I was certainly politically minded. I didnt need my parents opinions. I could read the newspaper myself. So can this boy. I dont think any of you are actually upset by this.. you are jealous of his ambition. This is a young man who deserves a right to vote.. while most of you, apparently are given a little too much for being of age. You think 7 years of existence gives you more wisdom than him? I would like to see you try and prove it.
We're not mad at the kid, we're saying that Clinton would be a dirt bag to take campaign money from an impressionable kid. Even if Clinton had a strong chance, that money would have been better spent elsewhere, like savings for college.
When I was 11, I didn't think about politics; I liked the candidates my parents liked because my parents liked them. I didn't become truly politically aware until I was fifteen. Now maybe this kid is some sort of wunderkind who already holds his own political opinions at 11, but the odds of that seem pretty small to me compared to the odds his parents had something to do with this.
And what the crap do you mean by 'conceding defeat to a theocracy'... I wasn't aware there was a clergyman in the race.
You're lying to yourself now. From a psychological standpoint, 11 year olds can only parrot the thoughts of their parents or their teachers. They don't have their own opinions.
If you don't understand that his parents probably made him do this, then you're an absolute idiot.
Also, where is the theocracy you speak of? America? You seem to be something idiotic masquerading as something self-satisfied.
Cute, but saddly ironic.
If the kid REALLY decided he was going to sell his stuff and help Hillary, well kudos to him. Can't say I'd lend him any money to bet on horses though.
In all honesty, it's quite likely, at least at some level, a fabrication.
Really is the shits for the poor kid too. What with Gas going up and no bike, plus he's out the video games, he's going to have to take up card games or something... well, maybe not card games. At least not gambling games.
Just, seriously fucked up. I feel bad for the kid.
Hey, not all kids under 15 are so dumb and impressionable. I mean, I'm not old enough to vote but I can hold a strong debate for my candidate any day. Don't sell kids short. Either way, It screams publicity stunt. Tnose parents are jerks for letting him sell his stuff in the first place.
And HC is a scumbag for taking the money.
I agree 100%. I was very politically minded and aware when i was 14 and wish i could have voted at that age, so i do believe that this kid could be doing it out of his own free will, in which case i'd say kudos to him even if i disagree with his choice of candidate.
Now my problem is where does an 11 year old get that kind of idea? At first you might think it is nice for a kid his age to know about politics, but what does he actually know?
It worries me that his parents might have played a huge part in this.
...So why did she just think only of herself?
If she was a TRULY upstanding leader she would have taken the kid and had him open a savings account, put it away for college, what have you, but not taken the donation. Taking the donation just furthers the fact that you really don't care what the people think. All you care about is yourself.
Hillary is someone who believes the government knows best and she's going to build the best gov't ever...
...So with this as an example she's going to build a gov't that gladly accepts your money and gives nothing in return. Great.
This isn't just a publicity stunt. It's a publicity stunt gone bad.