16 year olds voting?

Through the recent topics that have came up in my humanities class about giving the teenagers at the age of 16 the right to vote was soon to be discussed. Last Friday we were given a topic to study and remember so we can have a Socratic seminar today. The tough topic given to us was on giving teenagers at the age of 16 the right to vote. Honestly I strongly disagree on giving the teenager the right to vote. You are basically giving them the right to drink and the right to get married. And during the seminar the groups were split between the boys and the girls. In my group, we had many interesting. And I van to think that I actually did a little less than what i had expected. Its not that I didn't study the text given its that I really did understand what the other students had to say. They used words that i haven't heard of and i think that is what really affected me. Though the conversation was heating up in a good way I had not that many entrances into the conversation. One comment that I gave throughout the seminar was "If your gonna give 16 year olds the right to vote you might as well let them drink, buy cigarettes, tobacco, and get married!" The reason to that comment was because your bestowing so much responsibility in these teenager just to vote on something that wont even effect them like economy wise. Well ways to improve my participation in Socratic seminar are limited to one and that is try to enter into a conversation that I didnt get and ask what they meant about it. In the text that was given to go along with the Socratic seminar there was a point saying " And why stop at voting? Sixteen is a good starting point for phasing for adult rights and responsibilities, from voting to drinking to marriage." This point was one argument that I had made because young kids at the age of sixteen aren't ready for this big responsibility with voting alone and we certainly cant trust them drinking and having the permission of getting married. I disagree because I certainly think I am not ready to go to the voting polls and voting that is basically giving the parents a second vote! And let alone having them drinking and getting married is just an outrage. An interesting view that another student laid out to the table was that he believes sixteen year olds should be able to vote because if they are able to drive they should be able to vote and he said his reasons for thinking that is because "they are Americans!" Look forth for more post.

The Year Of The Youth Vote.

I have felt that youth have ever right to vote just like the next person, but there is something that is slowing the youth. And that is that most eighteen year olds aren't registered to vote our they don't have the time to go and vote. Barak Obama really has that power to almost control the minds of teenagers to vote not just for him but just to vote. When i heard one of Barak's speeches that was later on turned into song it made me want to keep listening and try to understand what is trying to come out of that message. For me it has been difficult just because I have not paid attention to any political movements or anything like that. But Barak's speech that he gave in New Hampshire was outstanding it blew me away it I don't doubt that it amazed our teenager lie myself. Barak basically is incumbent to have the youth vote. What Barak Obama wants to achieve is to get a coalition of youth to vote. But when I hear I want the youth to vote. How low is the age limit when he says "The youth to vote"? Is he going give the teenager with the age of 16 and up suffrage? If he says if he is going to give suffrage to 16 year olds Obama has a good chance to stay president for all his terms. He can say he will veto teens to have the right to vote at the age 16 then he will have so much success coming his way. He himself said that the youth them selves can determine who our next president will be. And if he give so many more speeches like he is now he will have a good chance of becoming president. He to be progressive in the terms of the voting age. He is liberal in the fact that he does want the youth to vote. Who knows if Obama is evangelical and is doing this from gospel teachings. Why has Obama have a certain interest in having the youth to go and vote. Is this a strategy in getting the youth to vote for him or is he doing this for rights. Who knows. Give me feed back on what you think.

Presidential Debates

Well I will want to share with you a mini project that we have completed in my Humanities class. It was focused on the presidential debates. What we had to do is, we were assigned a runner up from the republican side and we were given a topic to research your runner ups view points on the topics. I was Mike Huckabee and my topic was Border Security. I have learned alot from this mini project just because I have never paid attention to any political issues or any presidential debates. This was an issue for me because I felt like I had to learn all these new terms and what they mean but once I got the teachers help to understand it became a breeze. We also had to research the opposing stand points of view on the topic as well to get some sort of leverage on them. What i think I learned the most out of this whole project is that us as kids need to pay more attention to whats going on in these debates because sooner or later we will be able to vote and when the time comes we wont know who is the best candidate to nominate as our president. If you don't know what the president your voting for wants to do to change the nation well you will regret it. My views on this topic as supposed to the candidate I have research go long ways. I want to let some illegal immigrants to have the chance to become legal but they have to do what everybody else is doing they have to get in line and wait. Unlike Mike Huckabee he wants to toughen up the border and finish the fencing. He basically wants illegals to leave this country. Overall I had a great experience with this mock debate and look forward to my later postings.