Boy to Obama: Why do people hate you?, page 1

Originally posted by Trolloks
Being dumb i believe is not being able to/too lazy to think for yourself and use something that humans have been using for their entire existance and is the pure reason of any advancement.......Imagination.

At an age as young as that, they have loads of imagination, but are useualy fourced to keep it down and focus more on repeating things that are told to them, which is realy realy sad.

As the above post pointed out, at that age the most influencial people are your parents, and many other times teachers. Your parents want you to do well at school, so you try and please the teachers by copy/paste from book to paper.
You useualy start to realy gain your intelligence through your teen years. The sad thing about that though, is that teenagers are the most looked down upon group of society, they crave freedon of imagination, but yet are forced to keep it locked up. (Which could explaine the famous rabelitious stage (excuse spelling)

Also as the above post scrapes on, Grammer nazies are just anoying. If you can get your point across, thats all thats needed, in any way or form. Art, litriture, music, it doesnt have to be text-book, but if the point gets across, then the job is done.

"EDIT"
Just a thought on why he may be linking god with obama. US Presidents tend to use the phrase "May god praise this nation", he could be raising the question of his authority to clame gods connection with the president maybe?? Maybe he thinks he is gods messenger in a way. Obama is the leader of the biggest thing he knows at that age, like the pope is to christians. Just a thought, i know it may sound random, but kids can make some supprisingly complex connections with their surroundings

[edit on 15-10-2009 by Trolloks]

thanks for the confrimation that my ideas should not be judged by my grammar!
also I think you are onto something with why the child might associate the president (not specificly Obama) to God. I remember saying the pledge of alliegance, and when I always got to the "one nation, under God..." part I remember thinking:
"Well I thought we were under the president, Is he god?"

So it could be something as simple and innocent as that. We don't need a conspiracy in everything...that being said, it's not impossible that the child was coached into saying this. But as a parent of a very imaginative child (who is encouraged to use it) I can say that this sounds like something that came out of his own mind. All a child has to do is pay just a tiny bit of attention to what's going on to get his mind racing and coming up with all kinds of things.