Err we do?

A lot of guts though, I must admit, even if its a bit heavy on the “hostage takers” rhetoric.

Posted by: Lakhim at August 12, 2004 11:51 PM

I have to admit that I’m a bit suspicious that this is an 11-year-old. Even a really politically precocious 11-year-old. I won’t rule it out of the realm of possibility, but it would have to be an extremely talented-beyond-his-years 11-year-old.

Is there any independent confirmation beyond the assertion of the blog’s author that this person’s an 11-year-old?

Posted by: Nate at August 13, 2004 12:39 AM

I think that it is possible that he wrote it. Give him a call if you don’t believe him, he put the number on the site (bad idea).

(The HTML is pretty good though, I’d expect he got help on that)

Posted by: Lakhim at August 13, 2004 01:04 AM

an 11 year old Republican? According to Alan’s Dad (and I have since seen it originally attributed to Churchill), he has no heart. At least he has moxie.

Posted by: j at August 13, 2004 02:42 AM

I suspect he’s somewhat young for moxie, but it’s refreshing to see anyone that age using his energy for something worthwhile.

On a recent, long plane trip I read former California Congressman and Clinton Impeachment Manager Jim Rogan’s autobiography, Rough Edges, My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington. Rogan, too, had a life long interest in politics from an early age and would regularly skip school to make long trips into San Francisco to wait outside radio and TV stations in order to collect autographs and have is picture taken with national politicians such as Ted Kennedy and his favorite, Hubert Humphrey. Later in life, newly elected Governor Bill Clinton urged young Rogan (ironically) to pursue law school as an entre to politics. This from Harper-Collins site linked above.

Jim Rogan was born to a single mother — a cocktail waitress who was later convicted of welfare fraud; his bartender-father abandoned them both before he was born. After a rough-and-tumble childhood in San Francisco’s hardscrabble Mission District — where he was raised by his colorful extended family — he became a political junkie at the age of nine, and once received help with his homework from Harry Truman. But Rogan traveled with a tough circle of friends; after years of borderline delinquency he was expelled from high school, became a porn theater bouncer, and then a bartender at a strip joint and a Hell’s Angels bar. Along the way, a young Arkansas politician advised him to study law and become a member of a different kind of bar.

I wish your young correspondent well.

Posted by: ter0 at August 13, 2004 10:30 AM

My sister volunteered for the campaign for the Governor of North Carolina when she was 11. 40 hours a week, all summer long. At least, I think it was Gov of NC. I forget, it was so long ago…

Posted by: TBox at August 13, 2004 11:45 AM