Wherein we learn that the subject's ambitions may be ill-advised or misplaced

Via the comments in The Weasel King's livejournal, this story reads in part:

Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father's existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing "Halo" on an Xbox with a couple of hookers in a Texas motel.

[...]

Ralph's ambition is to one day become a politician.

Ahem.