6th post. Political debate!

The new issue of Zaphyrus at our school just came out. It was all about politics. I, personally, am not interested in politics at all, but I thought to myself since this newspaper was written by kids my age, maybe their political views would be more understanding for me. I have a great deal of relatives that are republican and independent. All my friends are democrats. This is not fun for me. I have one friend who is especially into debating about political views. I have been in a car ride where she battles it out with my parents. Let’s just say it is not fun for me. My friend tells me to read the back page about Obama VS McCain. When I read it, it made me a little upset. Instead of stating good things about Obama, and how he can help our country, the author of the article just wrote about how stupid republicans are! He made fun of republicans by actually saying that they are not intelligent. He may not agree with republicans’ point of views and beliefs, but he has no right saying that they are all dumb. The author offended my family. He did a good job writing, but he had so many down putting facts about republicans and their feeling/decisions that it turned me off. What I found the most amusing was at the end of the article when the author wrote that we should all be like liberals and refer to the issues instead of personalities for once. What I hypocrite! In the end this was a disappointing experience for me because I ended up not learning anything about the facts of the candidates, but instead more about how each others personalities are dumb. Hopefully one day I’ll decide for myself what I believe in and fight and talk about the right reasons to vote for a president.