Youth.

Society tells us we can drive at 16, vote at 18, and drink at 21. Does that mean one is more responsibility than the other? Is that was society is telling us?
Or if we think well Germany is drinking at 15 why do we drink at age 21? Is it that we're more immature can we not handle the responsibility at 15? With that will we respond like we are more immature, and can't handle that much responsibility. That was exactly the main focus of yesterdays seminar, more specifically on the voting age though, and also rather than saying "I think" posing it as question.
The groups were divided in boy and girls, and on the article "You're 16, You're beautiful, and You're a voter" I don't feel like this was our best seminar, or at least I noticed I was less engaged. I was passionate about the argument, but couldn't express my opinion as well as usual, the problem is unknown. Although it was a lot better than our practice seminar a couple days before.
The practice one was the time to get rid of the last "I thinks" this seminar there were a lot more opinionated posed questions. When Imanni was explaining that lowering the drinking age wouldn't necessarily mean some teens not being able to handle it but rather just allow the numbers to go up, Marissa was arguing against it, then I asked if it would really make a difference? That was my highlight of the entire seminar, I found that to be the perfect example of what Cortney wanted us to improve on.
The idea of granting kids privileges at a young age would have to come gradually, like when you're learning to drive you receive your permit then license. Drinking would go along with permit and voting with a civics class. However this would be nice, it may just be making these privileges a bigger deal.

TheYear of the Youth Vote

The talk of this year election is the youth. Their turn out in numbers, and how much more supportive they seem. A coalition of youth formed to Barrack Obama, they are all very zealous about him winning. Obama is 3 to 1 in New Hampshire, 2 to 1 in Nevada, and in Michigan nearly 50,000 people voted "uncommitted" because Clinton was the only name on the ballot, all of these statistics under 30. He is definitely an incumbent to the youth in America. Caitlin Ellis, 20, says "A lot of my friends from home are Republicans, and it's refreshing not to have to fight tooth and nails with them when I say I'm for Obama, with this it is more than safe to say he has managed to be liberal yet conservative, aware and respectful of both right and left wing.

In the article it is made clear by Johnathon Beam, 21 that Obama is great at making speeches when he says "If we were electing someone on the basis of their ability to give great speeches, then Obama would be a great choice. Where as I would agree but as the article went on it seemed as if he would continue to be progressive. If I was a constituent, he would have my vote.

Debate

During the debate on Monday I was the expert on economy as Mike Huckabee. I was extremely nervous this was the more nervous I have ever been. As soon as I had been called up my heart was pounding and I was shaking I wouldn't be surprised if my voice was trembling as I spoke but now this sounds too cheesy. Anyways I felt unprepared but I was prepared I had about 3 pages of notes, I even annotated, I obviously was prepared because I was voted one of the best delegates. As soon as it was over I felt very relived, but it was a good experience and I wouldn't mind doing it again.
Huckabee, McCain, and Romney's views weren't far too different from each other, however I have a better understanding in Huckabee's. His economic views made sense to me, and I wasn't disappointed by them. I believe they make sense and his reasonings have good intent. In both the research sites I used he says that his short economic goals will lead up to greater ones and that definitely makes sense. I wouldn't mind his views taking place for real.
The day we chose topics to study about I had to leave early and was assigned a topic rather than being able to choose. As the debates went on I realized I was very passionate about stem cell research and couldn't believe some presidents were against it only being "its like playing god." The only reason why that is true is because we could potentially clone babies, however this hasn't been done, nor is this a major intent. Also you can gather stem cells without harming or evening needing to use an embryo. This topic completely fascinates me, and I would definitely fund it.