Wednesday, May 28, 2008 | 2:03 a.m.
Stop with the broad generalizations about Barack Obama’s supporters, please. Madelyn Olds and George Puccini, in their respective letters Friday and Sunday, suggested that Obama’s supporters are young and naive. Obama has the support of people of all ages and from myriad backgrounds, many highly educated. As someone under 30 and well-educated in public policy, I take offense to the statement that my age group is looking for a “panacea.”
Obama is the only candidate who tells Americans the truth and stands up for the ideals we believe in. (Case in point: Gas tax holiday. Neither Hillary Clinton nor John McCain was upholding American ideals by supporting a gimmicky, wasteful, meaningless tax holiday to shamelessly garner votes.)
Young people are not expecting Obama to provide everything for them or to have the answers to solve all of life’s problems — we are simply seeking a leader who can take us in a better direction and inspire us to work hard to become greater than we are. Obama should be lauded if the worst he has done is engage a demographic whose attention is extremely difficult to capture.
It is time for change in America. Hurrah for the young people (and for those young at heart) who are standing up for something they believe in and reaching for the American dream.
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