[SJackson]

Nicole Neis, 19, a sophomore majoring in biology ... trying to decide between the two Democrats and is leaning toward Obama because he's come here twice -- once in October and again Tuesday night

I can't think of a better reason to choose a candidate. But wait, with 20 year old females in the mix, Bill is sure to visit, as many times as necessary.

[The Iceman Cometh]

Dems get a 'cool, hip' nominee.

Repubs get a nominee who will likely need a new hip.

[centurion316]

Since we are going to use the American Idol model to select the President this year, the question is, when will Simon show up?

[beandog]

Hopefully something new and shiny will come along to distract them. Doesn’t take much.

[heights]

Obamamania. If you play his speeches backward they say.”I buried Hillary”.

[Maceman]

Well, I can remember in 1968, when I was an 18-year-old college freshman, and we all thought that Eugene McCarthy was just like totally groovy.

[Maceman]

Well, I can remember in 1968, when I was an 18-year-old college freshman, and we all thought that Eugene McCarthy was just like totally groovy.

[Maceman]

Well, I can remember in 1968, when I was an 18-year-old college freshman, and we all thought that Eugene McCarthy was just like totally groovy.

[hole_n_one]

"It's totally cool. It's hip"

Sort of like the 1 or 2 sentence vanity posts on FR.

[Wagonboy]

Like a bad tattoo and a goofy piercing in an inappropriate place... What seems like a cool thing to do at the moment they’ll regret soon enough.

Keep asking these lemmings what his accomplishments are in the past five years. Don’t let them tell you he’s full of hope to change the future, or he’ll change the future of hope or he hopes for our future to change, or he brings needed change for our future to hope.

Stick with it. Ask them what his accomplishments are! -Wb

[Inspectorette]

Which Hollyweird dingbat (IIRC it was either Janene Garofalo or Whoopi Goldberg) who gushed “It’s not cool to be against Bill Clinton”.

[krb]

Guilty.

[Sir Gawain]

For the pic: guilty!

[O Neill]

In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy came to our campus (University of Arizona) for a campaign speech. I was nearly crushed by the crowd trying to get through the double entry doors & ultimately didn't make it to hear the speech. So I hung around outside & had a smoke, but the rest of the crowd disappeared.

Then the limos drove up right in front of me (for his departure) & I staked out prime turf right by the limo obviously intended for the Candidate, pressed up against the metal sub-panel on the driver's side. Sure enough, back out of the building he comes a few minutes later & hops in the (open) limo to greet the crowd (& shake his fist at the F-4 aircraft flying out of nearby Davis-Monthan AFB for Vietnam). That's how I got to shake RFK's hand.

He would have won that nomination & probably the election...but, in Los Angeles a few weeks later, Sirhan Sirhan changed all that...

Obama's life is in grave...Arkancidian...danger...

[MNnice]

Bring back the poll tax. I told my young son yesterday that only property owners should be allowed to vote. heh

[Rob112586]

That’s one positive coming out of the Ron Paul fascination alot of young people seem to have. Sure, a decent amount were just anti-war and knew the Dems only used it for political advancement. But it seemed to me (and I live in the Bermuda Triangle of college towns) that more and more of the Paulites were understanding the core libertarian principles of small government, personal responsibility, low taxes, free markets, ect. And as Reagan said, “Libertarian is at the core of conservatism.” So while I’m sure the youth vote will always lean left, Paul’s contrarian (albeit sometimes illogical) ideaology is planting seeds that one day may sprout the next Russell Kirk or George Will.