> > I heard somewhere that President Bush's current approval rating on how he's handling this crisis is 92%.
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> > Why, then, do the other eight percent seem to all be in my class at school?
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> That's why they don't let people under 18 vote. Don't worry, many of them will go into college where they'll be fed pacifistic rhetoric by their professors. What's good for the sake of the country is that the 18-21 year old demographic has one of the lowest voter turn-outs.

No bleeding kidding. I was in fifth grade during the Gulf War, and you know what we spent quite a lot of class time doing? Singing war-protest songs. Seriously. They took what could have been a prime opportunity to learn about international politics, world history, economics, and making decisions when there is no clear "perfect" choice, and turned it into a lecture on why "war is bad." And, of course, being children, we bought it. I agree with you that it's a good thing children don't get to vote - they're simply incapable of understanding what's going on and forming intelligent opinions; rather, they just latch on to whatever ideas are fed to them.

I just wish there were fewer adults who did the same. ;-}

Dar "The Tin Man" ien