Letters to the Editor
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this is good ... right?
But the fact that the "Berkeley College Republicans" can even exist bums me out. And the Hillary girl: "30 years trumps three." Yes, picking those White House china patterns goes a long way on Presidential qualifications. Did the young man intoning the need for America to 'stick it out' in Iraq have any plans to enlist?
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Dude, where's my tax cuts?
"Sweet!" cheers a fellow GOP'er in a Cal sweatshirt.
I always think of them as GOPeons. :)
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Yeah, too bad Cal doesn't just eliminate all of its conservative students. Just expel them, if the state won't allow their execution...
That's what academic freedom is all about, right? Freedom from conservatives?
Anyway, has there been a Presidential election - ever - where the "youth vote" made the difference? Has there ever been a general election where the youth vote was significant? When this headline proclaims, "the Facebook generation is turning out to vote in record numbers," what "records" are being broken? The abysmal records from past general elections?
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Mod Tangerine Up -- Inciteful!
Way to go Tangerine, tell ya what, let's meet over by Sather Gate and I'll bring some baseball bats and you can go hog wild on the College Republican posters, if not the College Republicans themselves.
After that, we can go get us a mocha bianca up the street at Strada and talk about how those Republicans are all fascists that oppress us.
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What, again?
Every presidential election there's talk about the youth turning out in record numbers and changing things. Every presidential election they don't. A year, even the ten months left until the presidential election, is a long time to maintain any focused enthusiasm, especially for a twenty year old.
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Katharine, this article was gnarly wicked!
I am like totally stoked too! Clinton is bodacious and Obama, why he's hellacious! Like those grody Republicans really make we to hurl. Like major hosers always having a cow about some dipstick. Romney is total poseur, and who can forget McCain kissing up and George? Total flamer.
Party on Katharine!
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They Are Stoked and near age 65, I Am Too!
Just finished watching Bill Moyers interview Henry Waxman, Congressman from California. Wow!
No wonder that neither the Iraqi government nor American contractors want us out of Iraq. It is one big boondoggle! Both groups are robbing us blind with the help of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleeza Rice.
This morning I put a Barack Obama sign in my front yard. We here in Virginia vote on February 12th, Abraham Lincoln's birthday. So you folks voting on Super Tuesday be sure to give us a good start on securing this nomination for Barack. He is the only one left that takes no lobbyist money and has stated, 'No permanent U.S. bases in Iraq.'
As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "The time is always right to do what is right."
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Deja vu all over again
Didn't we go through this exact same thing with Howard Dean? How is this news?
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@Leo777
Totally with you. My reaction to this article is a big *YAWN*. You could have replaced "Facebook Generation" with "Moveon.org" from four years ago. Hell, maybe they just went back to the nineties and dusted off an old "Rock the Vote" piece, since P. Diddy's "Vote or Die" didn't quite catch on.
I always get the feeling that the youth that show up to these things are more interested in the social aspect than effecting real change. As the actual numbers going all the way back to when the voting age was dropped to 18 show, it's apparently easier to show up at a rally on Saturday than to vote on a Tuesday.
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@Leo777
Totally with you. My reaction to this article is a big *YAWN*. You could have replaced "Facebook Generation" with "Moveon.org" from four years ago. Hell, maybe they just went back to the nineties and dusted off an old "Rock the Vote" piece, since P. Diddy's "Vote or Die" didn't quite catch on.
I always get the feeling that the youth that show up to these things are more interested in the social aspect than effecting real change. As the actual numbers going all the way back to when the voting age was dropped to 18 show, it's apparently easier to show up at a rally on Saturday than to vote on a Tuesday.
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Well the, why are you at Berkeley and not Baghdad?
"At the Berkeley College Republicans table, Josh Curtis, 18, declares that he's already cast his absentee ballot for John McCain. "Sweet!" cheers a fellow GOP'er in a Cal sweatshirt. For Curtis, whose top issues are foreign policy, the economy and abortion, it was a pragmatic choice. "McCain is the only one who can win the general election on the Republican side," he says. He also considers himself more moderate on immigration and the environment, like McCain, but shares the most similarity with his candidate on the war. "I think it's important that America stick it out until the end, when Iraqis have enough security to really establish their political system. I think that if we left now, it could be chaos or even genocide."
Seems to me that if this young person is so gung-ho he should be shouldering the real responsibility and enlist. Truth be told, the next president will have no choice but to start a new draft. The country has used up its soldiers. So, Mr. Josh Curtis, work on your push-ups!
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Cynical Bastards...
You'll see. Young people put Obama over the top in Iowa. Wait and see.
You smug boomers are smack dab in the middle of a major sea change and you can't even see it.
You had 26 years to make this country a better place and look what you've done with it.
You all fail.
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Young voters would ALL be voting if they realized that...
... they were on the hook to repay the $10 trillion dollar national debt of their parents (plus interest)
... our current government has made promises for $50 trillion in entitlement programs that it can never keep, including many entitlements that they will pay into for decades and never receive themselves
... that many thousands more women and men their own age will never return from a war being fought on false pretenses
... that they will have to pose as Canadians to avoid hatred of Americans when traveling abroad
... our foreign policies have further raised the motivations of those who would launch terrorist attacks on the US, putting the nation at more risk than ever before
... the economy is a house of cards built upon consumer borrowing of money from China, Japan, and the Middle East, enslaving the next generation to repay their parent's overconsumption with a weakening dollar and price inflation for their entire lives
... that the war on drugs has costs millions their freedoms while creating a global system of distribution so sophisticated that is has corrupted all levels of our government, far beyond the organized crime born out of the Prohibition era
... the liberties that many generations before them knew as basic freedoms were relinquished by their parents to a government now controlling our lives as never before in the name of national security and religious moral codes
Yes, for these things our youth should vote... if there was a candidate to vote for.