The Young and Politics

I had an interesting evening. I was discussing politics with a 14 year old girl. It was interesting to get her perspective on the Presidential race. Me being a conservative, I was having issues with who she would vote for if she could vote. lol. But none the less this is a America and everyone is entitled to the opinion. (No matter how wrong it maybe. kidding). She was writing her paper on, Why she thought Barack Obama would win the election. She gave me pretty standard answers. Unfortunately not very substantial, but I also don't know how much she elaborated in her paper. I would have loved to help her with it. I think there are more underlying reasons why people would vote for him. So it got me thinking why would people vote for Obama:

He stands for change. (of what no one really knows)
He's black. (some people actually think it's trendy to vote for him)
He'll spread the wealth (even though it's gonna cost us all to pay for his programs)
He's gonna stick it to the rich (unfortunately the rich are the one's that provide a majority of jobs)
A vote for McCain is a vote for Bush. (Even though McCain and Bush have never seen eye to eye and McCain has gone against Bush in most instances.)
Reminds baby boomers of Kennedy. (although Kennedy would have been a right wing radical compared to Obama)
You'll get a tax cut. (if you make under 300k oops wait 250k umm no 200k no that's not good enough 120k that might do it. Under 30k and no tax burden you'll get all your money back and hen some of your neighbors)
Government health care (can you say rationing and they can't even keep Social Security solvent.)


Well happy voting. Even if your not voting for my guy and gal just remember to get out and vote. It is your God given right. Then you have full license to bitch if your guy doesn't win.