Linda Ellerbee: The Kids Are All Right

I totally agree with "children aren't stupid just smaller and less experienced". It is about time we started realising we are raising adults not children. Children should be encouraged to be politically aware. They should be educated on the issues from global warming, economy, war everything. I do mean educated not filled with opinions. The children will inherit all of our decisions both wise and unwise. They need to be taught to see through the intolerance, self indulgance and ignorace of people with their own agenda, not the good of a global society - that are in policy making positions now; so in the future this can be stopped. You do realize these 10 year olds are just 2 elections away from voting. What type of voter do you want making
decisions int he future. So encourage our young people to think, question, reason and make decisions that maybe can undo some of our unwise? decisions.

iheartpolitics - Hopefully those kids arent educated by you. This is an adult conversation and you sound like you are 14.

I agree that "children aren't stupid just smaller and less experienced" It's about time someone realized we are not raising children but raising adults. If a child has the intelligence, interest and intuition to express his or her opinion on the election they should be listened to. They are the inheritor's of the results of our wise or not so wise decisions. So from Global warming, economy, war, abortion what ever the topic - let's teach them well today. Teach them to think and question and reason. We need to raise a more educated and informed new generation that will look for solutions to problems not create new problems through greed self indulgence, intolerance and ignorance as we seem to have done. These 10 year olds are just 2 elections away from voting. What type of voter do you want voting in the future?

Yes, children are influenced by their parents, but they are also highly influenced by the teachers who teach them. Just ask any parent who has or has had a 5th grader. That child will generally view their parent as sub-normal in IQ as compared to their teacher.

Why are we only asking the children about MCcain and Obama? What about Bob Barr. We will never get rid of our 2 party system if we don't start educating our children about our other options. i bet more kids would agree with Bob if he were asked the same questions.
Don't know who Bob Barr is Google him!

of course the children vote for the president that usually ends up being elected. who do you think children are influenced by? their parents. and it's their parents who are the ones actually voting come election day. that's common sense.

ummmm, where is there info that Baraq Obama is spending half a billion on one ad? Now he is projected to spend about $90 million on advertising through his entire campaign, which is a ton of money. But it is no half a billion dollars.

Why are only Oboma and Mcain mentioned. I didn't hear any mention of Bob Barr. Shouldn't we be educating our children about our other options? If you don't know who Bob Barr is google him and educate yourself.

Are people really arguing about who the kids should pick? Just leave it alone, it's a harmless exercise that teaches kids about voting. End of story. No need to kill children's innocence just yet.

It's nice to pander to the children though I doubt they read Newsweek and the reason they don't get to vote is like St. Paul who said, "When I was a child, I thought as a child. I understood as a child but when I became a man, I put away childish things." To clarify, children don't have the wisdom, experience, education or maturity to understand the larger picture of our politician's action or lack thereof. They can't yet understand the importance of world politics. There are voting adults who don't so while this is yet another cutesy pie piece, it's irrelevant and patronizing.

General Knowledge - the article is about who kids would vote for. Did you read it?

Obama said himself the first thing that he will do as president is sign the "Freedom of choice act" which removes ALL restrictions on abortion. You think the world is in turmoil now? Allow this to happen and you will see unimaginable destruction.

There is nothing wrong with any candidate spending the money to speak to the american public at length about their plans. That is far better than the millions being spent by McCain to desperately attempt to scare the voters about Obama by re-hashing William Ayers. McCain won't place a half hour ad - not because he can't afford the money. He has nothing to say beyond his hate speech.

That's great they both wanted to be pirates during Halloween. That"s where it stopped Senator McCain went on with this legacy with his cronies (his label for Senator Obama but applies to himself) to become one of the biggest all time Pirates in history stealing from the poor so he could be rich(er). Incidentally I would like to clarify his motto: Putting his country first. He has done just that he's helped put us in debt, in war and disgrace.
disperation.