11-year-old Sells Video Games, Donates Proceeds to Hillary
11-year-old Sells Video Games, Donates Proceeds to Hillary
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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The only candidate who can help the country at this point is Ron Paul.
Good for that kid.
This story just makes me sad, can't pinpoint exactly why tho.
1: Who on Earth would want that psychotic bint to run their country?
2: Why on Earth would you sell videogames and raise money to get her into power when she will just steal all of your families money once she gets into office?
I have a new "save the children from this vile stuff" complaint:
Protect the children from politics! I mean come on! an impressionable kid does all that for a woman he should fear so much because he thinks she should be in office?
Surely there are some regulations to prevent children from doing stupid stuff like this?
Good for him.
the only problem is now, the kid sold his stuff for no reason at all, clintons ugly hide is losing, and even Obama doesn't see her as a threat anymore.
The act alone means far more than the money does. It garners more support for Mrs. Nanny-State. Hopefully, Hillary was nice enough to give the money back to him.
"I'm glad that you sold all your video games, Tommy! Once I get into office, I'll make sure that you never play video games again!"
They wipe their asses with $50 bills kiddo, shoulda kept the videogames.
Yes, true - I'll not fault him for it. I suspect his parents are very dedicated Hillary backers.
Personally, my opinion is that every one of these scumbags are no good and all out to steal us blind, while pushing us further into the 'slave' caste we belong in, while they run everything. To them we are mere 'baggage' that they unfortunately have to 'deal with'. Like a necessary evil - I guess in truth, it's the other way around.
In any event - opinions are different, I'll not flame the kid for his - but if I had to wager, I'd put money on mine being more accurate.
That's a 50/50 - some people feel like you slap them in the face if you give their gift back. I'm not one of them - but some do.
Still, I commend the kid for his dedication...if this is true.
Either way, that's idiotic.
Any of you that would berate him for his political views are pathetic. You sit on the outside looking in with nothing but contempt while those who wish to make a difference do something about it.
You only wish you had the balls to actually stand up and try and change something in your lives. You fail in so many ways.
Isn't there some form of regulation/age/mentality limit to donating to a political party or group? I mean children and people who aren't entirely in control of their facilities should probably be kept out of politics so they don't do stupid stuff like this right?Personally I think that you should be at least 15 before you even concern yourself with who is running the country, sure I knew that England was under the oppressive yoke of Tony Blair since I was 7 years old! But that doesn't mean that I was about to donate to whoever was in Cameron's shoes at the time!
So maybe before attacking videogames, the politicians should focus their efforts on regulating something that can really hurt children- themselves.
Me, I think ill play devils advocate, the kids a moron, nuff said. I knew better than that at eleven, and I highly doubt he actually formed that opinion himself or is informed period... its the parents doing.
Ah yes, change. I agree... we should be focused on change. We just had a Bush.. so it's time for another Clinton, right? I only hope Jeb is prepared.
Does the kid not realize HRC wants to take away his games in the first place? Probably not.
Too bad Hillary isn't the first to run for president.
The first was Victoria Woodhull in 1872, however it was illegal for her to run.
Another early claimant is Belva Ann Lockwood who ran in 1884 and 1888 on the Equal Rights ticket.
The first for a major party to be running for nomination was Margaret Chase Smith in 1964.
And the first African-American was Shirley Chisholm in 1972.
First person to get the reference gets a cookie.
But yes indeedy, someone should of mentioned it was Millions. At that age my mom wouldn't even let me trade my bike up, and when I got a new one like it or not, I couldn't get rid of that one and go back to the old one.
(Out in The country side you can’t really ride)"
say what?
i've ridden my bike all over out in my area, miles down to town, up dirt roads, across tressel bridges, down railroad tracks, and through the forests.
only time i ever needed to jump off is going up overly steep hills or going through swamps...
i agree though, shouldn't have sold the bike... i've never bought a bike in my life, anytime i wanted a new one i had to walk miles on down to the junk yard and loot parts to build one (assuming the dogs didn't chase me out first)
hmm wonder if i could make money doing that though these days... course i'd bet they have a fence around the yards now... heh i should go check just for fun.
Now, if he did that and added a note saying "This is what I do for fun, and I figure if you win I won't get to play games or have fun anymore, so I may as well give you the money for my games before you take it from me anyway."...I say we pitch in and buy the guy the system of his choice and 10 games with it. One of which being GTA IV.
That was made of Epic and Win. Bravo, good sir. Bravo.
So, really this whole issue depends on the intention of the parents, as that has a great deal of bearing on perception.
I got it!
The dude's parents FORCED him to sell all his stuff!
Though I do feel kinda bad for the kid(no use trying to save a ship that's pretty much totally in the water),he should have done a tad bit more research before selling all of his goodies and toys.If his parents really DID con him,when she(Hillary)does lose,and she most certainly will,they'll be ashamed that they coned their boy out of his stuff,and the boy will have the full right to be as pissed as hell.
He's a little kid, he should simply go and play. School is rough enough, but giving up things which allow him to escape is even worse. I can understand wanting to make a change in the world, but that will come in time, for now, he should just enjoy his youth and play.
Joking aside, while his motives to backing her are all his own, I must admit that to me there has always been something inherently wrong about taking money from someone that young. He'd be better off having his parents deposit that into a 24 month CD or in a investment savings account, and let it grow.
The fact that he did all that to support someone whose campaign is millions in debt, and floundering in the polls shows that he didn't do his research first, and that Clinton is using it as a media moment. Of course, to me she's coming off as an old witch taking some poor kid's money, but that's me.
"I really hate blacks, they have no business trying to run the government!"
Having the first female president isn't worth having HER in the seat.
@kurisu7885
Amen
And in some months from now, after whoever wins the election and is in charge, I think the boy is so gonna miss his bike...
ah-hah! so that's what it is
Isn't this a little too staged? I mean a kid giving selling video games for Hillary's cause? A little melodramatic if you ask me, too melodramatic that it almost seem staged. In any case, it is till commendable for a kid as young as that to make decisions and stand by it. Not many 11-yr olds have that kind of drive.
"Any of you that would berate him for his political views are pathetic."
Just like the candidates.
"You sit on the outside looking in with nothing but contempt while those who wish to make a difference do something about it."
Say I wanted to stop carbon emissions. This kid's actions are just like me walking up my street sticking bananas into exhaust pipes. It might make you feel better about "trying to make a difference" (if you're a dolt) but it doesn't really ever even come close to "making a difference." I also fail to see how embracing old politics is making a difference. See where old politics got us?
"You only wish you had the balls to actually stand up and try and change something in your lives. You fail in so many ways."
Every day I change lives. I help people stay in touch with their families and use their technology for enjoyment, profit, self-improvement. Giving money to a failing political candidate takes no balls whatsoever. Stopping your child from making a well-intended mistake does, but I think we've more than covered the fact that Mom and Dad absolutely must have influenced this decision. I mean, only one's parents could turn them on to Hillary. Stupid fucking Boomers.
It's nice to see kids caring about politics, even if it seems pretty blatantly orchestrated to try showing how hillary appeals to the youth... because of how heavily the VOTING AGE youngsters are breaking in favor of Obama.
...and yeah, I'm fairly sure there was a "little" parental manipulation going on there.
let's sell our video games and use the money to support a candidate that wants to ban them!
Even if this kid did 'sell' a bunch of stuff to give money to hillary (like that would be the kids idea ... I wonder if the parents 'encouraged' him) His parents will buy him all new stuff now.
But face it, a kid's (especially at 11 years old) judgement on something as complex as politics isn't going to be biased in one way or the other towards what he thinks is best for him. I'm going to venture a guess that either one or both of his parents are Hilary supporters and he just caught up in the rush.
I'll give the kid credit tho, even at 26 if someone asked me to sell my games to support a candidate, I would tell them where to shove it (Mostly because I don't feel any of the candidates are very good).
Wow, I really didn't know that. Seriously. I could've sworn that all the TV stations have been saying that she's the first woman to run for president.
Weird eh?
On top of that, I'm baffled at how an 11 year old can possibly be interested in politics to the point where they'd sell all there worldly possesions and mail the proceeds to a politician. The fact that the kids parents didn't smack him upside the head for doing this tells me that they're probably hardcore clintonians.
As an aside, I can't imagine how shitty this kid's life at school is gonna be when word gets out that he sold all of his toys to support a candidate who isn't even going to win the nomination.
And because Bioshock, CoD4, Halo 3, ect, ect are far more comforting than someone who is going to take away your hard earned money that is normally destined for more video games.
So what kind of 11 year old sells off his stuff because he devoutly believes in one particular candidate?
A) Brainwashed by his parents.
or
B) This is a PR setup.
Maybe both.
Why does everyone care so much? If he donated it to the ECA, you guys would no doubtedly be screaming, "BRAVO!", but he sends it to Hillary Cunton and so many fly off the handle.
No matter where he sends it, nobody should care. It's $400, what can a huge corporation or association do with $400?
Will everyone crucify me if I send a couple rolls of quarters to Ahmadinejad?
And on second note well at least you removed the games from your life before Hillary did! Also that the games went to someone that will actually want to play video games and not just live a life of what! Lets see what you can do now that
- Play basketball all night on the courts (Check)
- Walk around with friends just hanging out (Check)
- Get a game of Pick-up-Baseball (Check)
- Touch or Tackle Football in the field down the street (Check)
- Arcade (Check)
- Building Tree Forts in the woods and sleep all night in them (Check)
- Go Bike Riding or Skate Boarding (Check)
Geez everything I listed that I grew up on and most of you probably already been removed from either gang related things or curfews that authority's deem bad!
THE KIDS 11 11! do you really think he honestly cares about anything political? I doubt he even knows what the democaratic party or republic party is about! my christ people sure do fall for stuff like this
the parents probably told him to do it or this is just a publicity stunt..."oh even the kids love clinton lets vote for her" kinda BS .....
That second paragraph summed it up for me.
So either he is getting it back on the back end, or it never really happened. Doesn't really matter either way. Even if I give the benefit of the doubt and this kid really did send in $440 dollars to her cam-pain, what does it prove? Eleven year olds are easily swayed? He can't even vote. Should this 11 year olds opinion change anyone elses mind? Would you vote for someone because an eleven year old told you to?
Basically it's a non-story that is trying to be blown up into a story, like an Iraqian kid giving a US soldier a flower for a photo op.
Nope, he sold his bike too. Uncheck that.
The oppressive yoke of Tony Blair?
Please, please tell me thats a joke!
How on earth did Labour repress anyone?
Unless you thought that life under the conservatives was fun and games....
This just sounds like a publicity stunt; and a very poor one at that.
I think that is how you reply to people on here.
All the checks are things he can't do.
Be it Curfew or things just are now things that are labeled gang related and been deemed bad from parents and politics.
Like playing basketball all night. You'll get kicked off the court, Or Skateboarding. Nope can't do that either because you'll be a menace.
Irony, anyone?
How many games would an 11 year own as opposed to 'has had bought for him by his parents'?
The only people who won't believe this is a publicity stunt is the media (or at least the ones that still like the Clintons) or her supporters.
BTW... all three main candidates are tools. Neo-con or neo-lib globalists that are going to keep screwing the country. It's an amazing mechanism, really... a device that screws deeper whether it's turned to the "left" or to the "right."
Ron Paul/Cynthia McKinney '08!
Taking $440 from an 11 year old? What next? Candy from babies? SHEESH!
This is obviously a "youth vote" stunt to try and show the super delegates that she does connect with the younger voters. Oh wait, he can't vote.
Epic fail again. *head desk*
On the other hand, now he's made a name for himself -- maybe someday when he's running for class president, he'll bring up this episode to prove that he's willing to commit to his ideals.
I find it a stretch that Clinton would be rendered "speechless" by this action, though. Does that include saying "thank you" to the kid?
:headdesk:
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.