Why I Donated

[SeanQuinn]

My name is Sean Quinn. I am twelve years of age, and though it's not much, I'm planning to put in $10 of my own money (through mom's credit card, in which I pay her the $10 cash) toward DU and defeating George W. Bush's adminstration and his vile Republican Party in 2006 and 2008, as well as in my first elections in 2010 and 2012 .

I also have bought a wristband off some liberal site and have just got in contact with my horribly RED county of Seminole's (right in the I-4 corridor) chapter of the Young Democrats of America. I'll be going to my first meeting this Thursday and though I'm young, I'll be voting for our blue congresspeople and executive candidates in only 6 years.
Thank you, and I hope this has given you some motivation to donate.

[Padraig18]

1. Good job, boyo!

I became politically aware at about your age, too.

:thumbsup:

[JohnKleeb]

2. Damn Kids

:D you know kid, when I was 12, all I cared about was not embarassing myself in 7th grade, well and not getting yelled at by Super Mario. Good for you for getting involved early.

[SeanQuinn]

4. Thanks. Also, my SAT came in today.

I took it early in some Duke University Talent Identification Program..--total score of 980--

[JohnKleeb]

6. aww now you made me feel stupid

I took the SATs as a sophomore and got the same equiv score. Good on you though. Youre gonna be more successful than I am, I just wanna graduate college.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

8. Great!

I did a similar program when I was your age. My scores enabled me to miss school once a week during 6th grade to do all sorts of accelerated activities. We built robots, wrote short stories, did mock trials, it was awesome... I think it was through John's Hopkins University. The program I was in definitely aided me significantly in the learning process and I was able to hone my creative reasoning skills dramatically! I hope you get to do a program like that, it is totally worth your while. :)

[JohnKleeb]

9. I never did a thing like that

I was more concerned in 6th grade about my friend's pretend marriage to Pamela Anderson Lee.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

12. okay?

nt

[JohnKleeb]

15. I was weird back then

I never had any workshops like that, damnit, I changed, everyone used to think I was bound for a great college, then something funny happened, oh yeah it was called 7th grade math, errrrr. Maggie have you ever heard of anything called the ASVAB test, speaking of tests, I took that thing earlier this yera.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

16. Yes I've heard of the ASVAB test

Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery... must take in order for a career in the armed forces. I know my friend Amanda was considering joining the military and she had to take them.

[JohnKleeb]

19. Hey you went with Harrison

Yeah they basically talked me in to that. I would never join the Armed Forces right now.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

21. They talked you into taking the ASVAB?

You shouldn't have fucking let them do that to you! It's obvious they knew you didn't have plans to go to a 4 year college and said "Hey, let's get this kid into the armed forces!"... quite opportunistic.

But hey, could you even serve anyway? You have conditions preventing you from it, right?

[SeanQuinn]

14. Trust me, this isn't all the stuff I do.

Everything else remains under wraps. :P

[Worst Username Ever]

3. That's great to see.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

5. Aww

Good for you, I came here when I was 13ish and am (obviously) still kickin' around the place. It's great that you're becoming so involved in liberal causes at such a young age. It will put you ahead of many others your age who will gain a political consciousness later on in life.

on edit: spelling (see, even after all that schooling, I still can't type correctly!)

[SeanQuinn]

7. Ironically, I'm Freeper-territory.

So those with opinions are horribly misinformed.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

11. Me too

Upstate New York is freeperesque and many many people haven't got a clue what they're talking about...

Now that you are aware of things, try and make others aware. Start something, write letters to the editor, etc. Anything you can do to promote progressive causes or change people's perspectives helps. A few of my friends and I successfully convinced enough people of the mediocre job Bush was doing so that Kerry pulled a 6 vote victory in our school election. I think it was the first time a Democrat had ever even come close to winning one of our mock elections.

[JohnKleeb]

13. Good job on getting Kerry the win

We didnt have a mock election this year, but as a journalism student, Ive looked around at other school newspapers, god those fucking assholes, parroting the swift boat crap, fuckers, yeah youre gonna trust John Fucking O'Neil. :shrug: and this is supposed to be the sane part of Virginia, you know the party that doesnt support fining people if our undies show.

[SeanQuinn]

17. The only teacher I couldn't convince to vote for Kerry was from Rochester

Being born in upper New Jersey, I know many a difference between suburban life, city life and suburban/rural life

Our mock election was shitty because there was a whole satircal 'VOTE FOR NADER" campaign and Bush won 66%-28% and Nader had 5%.

Regardless, my LA/Lit teacher who voted for the Dem Senate candidate and finally was convinced to vote for Kerry (Tough sell, because up in her home of central NJ she grew up in a political family where her mom ran for NJ State Senate as a GOPer) while I un-convinced my SS/Religion teacher to vote for Bush after a review of the Supreme Court shizit and don't know about Senate but this freeper of a teacher from Rochester voted straight GOP.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

18. Nader had 7% here

It was a really good campaign. I voted for him.

[JohnKleeb]

20. Yeah most of my teachers are dems

I heard my chem teacher grumbling the other day "God first the election, then the eagles."

[SeanQuinn]

22. LMAO! n/t

[amazona]

10. good for you

You're smart to catch on so early to what's going on around you.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[SeanQuinn]

23. Note: Donation Delayed

Since my mom doesn't want le Freeper dad knowing, the donation will come Thursday. I'll holding on to the gold star for the longest I could.