Candidates Participate In Youths Forum

By Matthew Williams
16:38, February 3rd 2008
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Candidates Participate In Youths Forum

The democrats, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and the republicans, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul, joined in a forum on Saturday for youths sponsored by MTV, The Associated Press and MySpace.

The four got to answer by satellite questions from the young audience.

Obama got to say to the young audience that due to his multicultural background he is able to "see through the eyes of other people."

Also the candidates were asked about their opinions of one another.

When asked what Obama stands for in the contest, Clinton responded that the two of them "represent such a sea change in America," with one wanting to be the first female president and the other to become the first black president, the Associated Press informs.

She said: “Whichever of us gets the nomination, we are making history.”

Obama wanted to say that this doesn’t resume to the race or the sex. If it were so, he would only show up at these events and would not have to answer any questions.

Obama was in Minneapolis and Clinton in Tucson, Arizona, while John McCain and Mitt Romney, top candidates for the GOP nomination, refused to participate.

The young voters were asked by Obama to judge him about his stand against the war in Iraq and on the fact that his father was a Kenyan and his mother was from Kansas. He noted that he went to school in Indonesia.

He said: “If I convene a meeting of Muslim leaders to try to bridge the divide between Islam and the West, I do so with the credibility of someone who lived in a Muslim country for four years when I was a child. And although I'm a Christian I have a sense of that culture."

He added: "I am a member of the same Christian church where I've been for the last 20 years. I've been pledging allegiance to the flag since I was 3 years old. These are the old smear tactics that we see in every campaign," referring to the fact that some supporters wanted him to run as a Muslim.

Clinton talked about college and how can it be made more affordable. She presented some proposals about how students may pay off debt with national service. Clinton also said that colleges should sign contract with freshmen in order to ensure that until they graduate there will be no tuition increase.

She said: "We are literally slamming the door of college in the face of so many young people."

Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher was asked if he would make any decision in the Oval Office that would be against with his religion.

He said: "There's not this glaring conflict. Faith helps me to understand what is right."

He added: "I always get asked the God questions," noticing that is frustrating that people don’t know about his work as Arkansas governor.

Paul was asked what it should be done about the situation in Sudan’s Darfur region to ease the situation.

He said: "I don't believe in using force in that manner. Under the Constitution, we're not allowed to do that.”

Paul said that he would agree interim aid.

The forum "Closing Arguments: A Presidential Super Dialogue," was transmitted live on MTV and on 1,800 Websites and radio stations.




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