Comments on: Obama's Youth Movement

The Nation: Young Voters Flock To The Democratic Hopeful, But Can They Drive His Agenda?

[mistered9]

user168 has the habit of counting it''e chickens fefore they hatch.
If were afraid to attack Obama, how will that make him a good President. Can we call him a half breed, or is that against our constitutuional rights to?
Obama for president, God forbid.

[mistered9]

Obama captured 50+votes from the 20/29 age. Thgese are the dopers who will beleve he will legalize pot.
Maybe they need to engage their brains before they vote.

[it_oldtimer]

As politically insulated as many of our youth are these days, the sheer volume and magnitude of mistakes and failures of the Republican Party have nevertheless become glaringly obvious to most of them, and they can''t help but see how deeply and negatively they''ve been impacted by the Republican agenda. After all, they (and their children and grandchildren) have to foot the bill for those Republican mistakes and failures - and it''s going to be one hell of a bill.

To many of them, Hillary just seems like a Dem version of Bush. Only Obama seems to be focused on higher ideals, rather than lowly infighting, so it''s only natural that they''d pick him over the other choices.

The optimism of youth springs eternal.

[user168-2009]

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

Obama: lover of wisdom
McCain: lover of honor
Clinton: lover of gain

Obama appears to have greater appeal to highly educated Americans. WHY?

Highly educated people are those who have acquired imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed WISDOM - consisting of ideals and principles that govern all actions and decisions to maximize the LONG-TERM COMMON GOOD, and so are the highly educated Americans.

It is for LONG-TERM COMMON GOOD we EDUCATE our YOUTH, and so be it that the highly educated seek PURPOSE in LONG-TERM COMMON GOOD. This is called COMMON SENSE.

So be it that the highly educated seek WISDOM and its TRUTH in their choice of a president!

If you seek not WISDOM in a leader, what then, do you seek? If you hold not TRUTH, FAITHFULNESS, and SINCERITY as your first principles, what then, do you hold?

If you are a parent, an educator, or a community leader, and if you seek not such LONG-TERM COMMON GOOD, you care not about the children, family, community, society, country, or THE COMMON WORLD.

How can we let our children follow such self-gratifying Clintons??


"LIVE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD."

This is what the highly educated are going for.

[user168-2009]

"I would simply be uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be inevitably attacking Barack Obama," said McCain adviser Mark McKinnon in an interview with NPR''s "All Things Considered." "I think it would be uncomfortable for me, and I think it would be bad for the McCain campaign."

That said.

OBAMA WILL BEAT CLINTON AND McCAIN BECAUSE NO EDUCATED PERSON WANTS TO ATTACK HIM.

"Only once in a very long time does politics become more than politics, that is something more than partisan struggle, vote bartering, or arena of ambition...

... on rare occasion, old arrangements and conventional wisdom come unstuck. This happens in periods of rapid if not revolutionary change. We find ourselves now in one of those periods. The forces of globalization, information, eroding sovereignties, and transformation of war ensure that traditional leaders and conventional politics can only muddle through at best and fail badly at worst."

"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics."

"There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."

So let it be that our YOUTH sees HOPE in UNIVERSAL TRUTH:

"Love each other or perish."

%u201CFrom caring comes courage.%u201D

"LIVE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD."

GO! OBAMA!

[valentin73]

YOUNG REBELS IN SUPPORT OF THE REBEL CONTENDER. ALL THIS REBELLIOUSNESS WILL NOT BRING ABOUT GOOD CHANGE.

[tibu987]

user68, May I use your words please.......

YOUNG ADULTS, our nation depends on YOU to make a CHANGE.
%u201CLIVE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD.%u201D
I am a 72 year old white male, veteran, and I too have never been more excited for you young adults than today. GO! GO vote for you dream, vote for WISDOM, COMPASSION, AND COURAGE! VOTE FOR OBAMA!
Thank you.
Posted by tibu987
***
I also want to thank you, tibu987

It takes wisdom, compassion, and courage to oppose the Iraq War. It also takes wisdom, compassion, and courage to run a country! America wants nothing less.

"... But we ought not %u2014 we will not %u2014 travel down that hellish path blindly. Nor should we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain." ~Obama
***
"The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution."

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

%u201CHe who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."

"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as your first principles."
"Kindness in thinking creates profoundness."
"From caring comes courage."
Posted by user168 at 02:39 AM : Feb 12, 2008 CBS O/L News Forum

[tibu987]

"We don''t need no stinkin changes".(sic)

On the other hand, if you feel yourself to be an intelligent and concerned voter, vote for Obama, the only candidate offering that possibility.
Clinton and McCain only represent more of the same, the status quo. (see "good ole boys/girls club" of Washington).

Change, why not?
We want a change with the war in Iraq.(not staying in Iraq for 10, 100, or 10,000 years as McCain has said).
We want a change in the tax rate that will tax millionaires as they do the little people. (see Buffet et al).
We want to change the porkmeisters in Washington, of which, Hillary is in the top 10; the old guard which accomplishes nothing more than the feathering of their own nests, (the Kennedy''''s, Byrd, Stephens, and many, many, others).
We want change in the way our schools and teachers are faltering. (our teachers are paid too little, our students are far behind those of some foreign countries).
We want change in the care of our infrastructure. (not hundreds of millions of dollars to build bridges to nowhere, see Stephens, Alaska).
We want to change our unsafe streets into safe streets. (pay the police more, raise the standards for becoming a policeman/woman).
And, I could go on and on.
Naive, perhaps, but "change" has to start at the top

I am a 72 year old white male, a veteran, and have seen it all.
I will be voting for Obama.

[user168-2009]

Todays youth are just as they''ve always been... uninvolved, uninformed, and uninterested... Good luck with that America!

Posted by dgal878


The TRUTH is, we must teach our children to LOVE.

When Bill Clinton trash his presidency with scandal, putting self-gratification ahead of family, society, country, and the world, he was preaching self-love, narcissism, and self-seeking. That is setting the worst example any leader could to harm a world of youths and their tomorrows. Does Bill care about anyone?

When Hillary dismissed the scandal as if it were no big deal, She was protecting her candidacy and both of their images. Were she to be concern about today''s youth and their (moral) education, she would have dismissed Bill instead. Where is her sincerity?

Bill and Hillary, if only you could hold children close to your hearts, you will have no room for lies, wrongdoing, and self-gratification. And only then would you see wisdom, compassion, and courage!

Bill and Hillary, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Our nation''s youth is smarter than you think. By voting WISDOM, COMPASSION, and COURAGE in OBAMA, they have thus dismissed the self-seeking-dead-end-street of such calculating Clintons.

So be it that the nation''s youth sees Hope in Truth:

"Love each other or perish."

"From caring comes courage."

"LIVE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD."

[cyberus-2009]

About time the kids woke up ...

... they need to defend themselves against the generation that seems to be ok with the "spend on ME now, let the kids pay for it" mindset.