| By Dave Harding, ProgressOhio - Aug 16th, 2009 at 10:53 am EDT |
Before his 11th birthday Damon Weaver had interviewed Oprah Winfrey, sat down with Colin Powell and made Joe Biden his “homeboy”.
But this week the student reporter from South Florida finally scored the big one: ten minutes of face time with President Obama.
Damon showed no last-minute nerves as Mr Obama greeted him with a casual: “You look good, man, in your suit.” Clutching his notes, he questioned the President on cuts in education spending, the role parents should play in their children’s learning and whether Mr Obama has ever been bullied.
Damon became an online sensation when his interviews for the in-house TV station at his Kathryn E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary School went viral during the election. He even received the offer of a full scholarship to Georgia’s Albany State University, which he plans to take up once he is old enough to have entered and graduated from high school.
At the end of his interview, Damon announced "President Obama is now my homeboy too."
Watch Damon's interview with The President:
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