Obama’s A Fraud And Why 18 Year Olds Should NOT Vote;Democratic Nomination May Hinge On Uninformed Voters

Posted on February 19, 2008
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The Vietnam War was the direct reason why 18 year olds won the right to vote.

The 2008 presidential race is a great reason why they ought to no longer have it.

18 year olds can’t drink, yet they are being intoxicated by  a cult-like figure who they may help elect President, even though they know precious little about what their candidate of choice really plans to do and is capable of doing if given the keys to the Oval Office.

First, some brief history.

Back in 1970 BYT (Before YouTube) Congress extended the Voting Rights Act to include 18 year olds–this because of the feeling among that age group that if they were “old enough to fight,” then they were “old enough to vote.”

A year later, the 26th Amendment was ratified in just four months–never had a Constitutional Amendment been ratified so quickly–giving 18 year olds the constitutional right to cast ballots in federal elections.

In 2008, newly minted 18 year old voters are among the biggest supporters of Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign to become President of the United States.

They are fools and are being taken in by one of the biggest frauds in recent U.S. history.

They are voting not for policy, not for experience, not for depth of ideas; they are voting for Obama because they “like” him…he gives them “hope”….he is about “change.”

CHANGE?????

What exactly does an 18 year old want to change?  Their life experience simply does not justify such a demand. And, unlike in the 1960s-70s, they are not being asked to fight an unpopular war while being denied a say via  the ballot box (or screen).

I have had the opportunity in recent months to talk with many 18, 19 and 20 year old students who support Obama.

Their color-blindness is admirable; their reasoning is not.

I have yet to get a single 18 year old voter to explain exactly what they mean by “change” let along what Obama means by it.

No doubt about it–Barack Obama is cool (chill?) and Hillary Clinton and John McCain are not–at least not to this newest generation of voters.

As for Obama, what does he want to change? Things have not been so bad for him. If anything, he is living proof that any and all things are possible in America; that a black man, for the first time in U.S. history, has a real good shot at being elected president by an overwhelmingly white voting population.

Not bad; does he want to “change” that?

He and his wife and his children live a lifestyle that would be the envy of many; does he want to “change” that?

The national media have –until recently–all but ignored the cult of personality that has grown around him and that he encourages at every turn; does he want to “change” that?

If Hillary Clinton fails to win Texas and Ohio and Penn, Obama will probably become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president; does he want to “change” that?

And, if Obama runs against John McCain, there is a better than even chance he will be elected President of the United States; does he want to “change” that?

Obama is a smart man. No doubt about it. He is smart enough to understand why his “message,” short on meaningful detail, but long on inspirational clap-trap,appeals to the mind of an 18 year old voter, whose mind has been shaped by a failing educational system and whose understanding of American and global history and dynamics come via three minute bursts of light on YouTube.

18 year old voters may actually help determine who will be the leader of the free world, an awesome responsibility; do we want to change that? You bet we do!

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3 Responses to “Obama’s A Fraud And Why 18 Year Olds Should NOT Vote;Democratic Nomination May Hinge On Uninformed Voters”

  1. Elizabeth on February 22nd, 2008 12:58 am

    Given your media experience, what advice would you have for Hillary? I’ve said some similar things myself in regards to Obama - using the words ‘messiah’ and ‘cult of personality.’

    Frankly fanatics/extremists scare me and I’m very concerned - this time - with the left extremists. Ironically on the right, the extremists lost.

    I have tried in vain to question Obama supporters why they support him? All I get is that they hate Hillary and usually use personal attacks. She is the smartest, toughest candidate but is battling the corporate media and not unsurprisingly, the left.

    So any advice for her? For the rest of us? I can’t vote for someone I feel is wholly unqualified so I will not vote for Obama.

  2. charles on February 22nd, 2008 6:25 pm

    The advice I would have given her would have been to be tougher and hit him a lot harder. Not sure she would have taken that advice,though

  3. Nate B on February 26th, 2008 9:36 pm

    I recently switched parties to vote for Hillary. I really like her tough stance. But tonight she was plain awful. It was between her or Obama, and she lost my vote. I was the vote she COULD have gotten tonight. She waffled on the tax return question, her forein policy answer on who Putin put into place was pitiful. I think Obama was weak as well following her lead on some answers, but we ALL know that they have VERY similar fews on everything.. Now we need to join together and keep MCAIN out of the white house. Are we too prideful to do that???

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