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| Are they informed? Candidly, I don't think many people are as informed as they think they are. These kids are believing what an adult (teacher, parent, minister, etc.) have told them to believe. |
...then how exactly would you define "informed"? Possessing knowledge? Are they not possessing knowledge?
And ironically, you're doing the same thing you're criticizing them of doing. You've apparently been trained to assume that when you see a demonstration like this, that the participants can't be doing what they're doing out of their own conviction, but that they must have been persuaded by an authority figure. I'm not saying that
isn't what happened, but it's fallacious of you to present that as the only possibility.
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Not to even mention that they can't vote. So what does it really matter in the long haul.
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What does it matter? So for people who can't vote, their opinions don't matter? Wake up and smell the frappuccino. You don't think demonstrations like this influence the people who
can vote? I've heard countless stories of parents being told about Barack Obama by their children (true story: I was walking out of McDonald's the other day, and I heard this little boy who couldn't have been more that 8 years old ask his mom, "Did you hear on the news about what Obama wants to do with taxes?" I don't think I even knew who the president was when I was his age).
Anyway, going back to why people who can't vote still matter: you don't think the fact that the majority of the rest of the world likes Obama more has any bearing on the outcome of the election? Obviously, citizens of other countries can't vote in our election, but it's the support abroad in general that contributes to our perceptions of the candidates.
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| This is just a group of people who believe Obama is the answer to everything, and probably just because he's black and so are they. I'd be surprised if they knew much more about him than the color of his skin. |
lol, did you actually watch the damn video? Did you have your volume up? They blatantly
listed a bunch qualities they like about Obama, and none of them had anything to do with skin color.
But this type of rhetoric is what has become typical of the anti-Obama coalition; just attribute his success to his skin color, because:
1. Black people have always done great in presidential elections...
2. It's grossly improbable that people might genuinely just
agree with Obama's policies...