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Dec 6, 2008 7:40 am US/Eastern
"Mr. Obama, How About An Interview"
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MIAMI (CBS4) ―
A Pahokee student at age ten has garnered exclusive interviews with people such as the soon-to-be vice president, Joe Biden; Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive officer; Caroline Kennedy and a host of Florida politicians.
Damon Weaver, the fifth grader from Palm Beach County, is now aiming at the big scoop, an interview with Barack Obama.
He has a plane ticket and a spot reserved at a hostel in Virginia during inauguration week. His school is trying to raise about $4,000 to pay for the trip.
The K.E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary School student and YouTube sensation told CBS4 Mobile Journalist Jim Robinson that he's trying to get with the president-elect.
He explained that he gets some guidance from Brian Zimmerman, a speech and language counselor who oversees the school's KEC-TV.
Robinson used an internet platform to conduct his own interview with the 4-foot-tall boy. Zimmerman uploaded the answers to a website: schooltube.com.
"It has been my dream to interview Barack Obama," said Weaver, and he explained that one of his supporters in this quest is Miami Heat's Dwayne Wade.
Weaver's hoping his situation will work to his advantage as he addressed the president-elect in a pre-recorded website. "Instead of letting all those grown up reporters interview you," he said, "I think it's time you let a hard working student interview you."
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