My friend Jeannette and I share similar views on politics and hope our daughters will too. When California mentioned the possibility of getting fourteen year olds to vote, we exhanged e-mail about it. Here is my e-mail to her when she let me know what her two girls thought about voting teens....

Lindley's views on the Bush administration are..... well, let's put it this way... if it's not in her Star Wars books or magazine, then she doesn't care. But since Carlos and I talk about politics, and she is a captive audience, I have faith that she is a little democrat in the making. I do tell her that I hate Bush and why, but I also tell her that she has the right to choose a party to suit her beliefs. She was against the war because she knew that Hussein was not connected to 9/11.

Around that time I had her reading TimeforKids.com that had many articles on the war. She wasn't afraid as many of her friends were.

She's had to do current events and always chooses something to do with animals. She is an avid environmentalist... to the point that Carlos and I can picture her as a Greenpeace activist. That alone sets her off the Republican *cringe, cringe* road. :)

She knows that in the next presidential election after this one, she'll be old enough to vote. It doesn't phase her one way or the other. She will vote for whoever has the environment and animals' interests at heart. I'm okay with that.

For now... she's enjoying being carefree. I like that too. She knows that California wanted to introduce a bill that would allow 14 year olds to vote and her comment was, "That's so stupid! Kids don't know enough to vote. They'll just be like, duh?"

Her comment when I asked her what she thinks of Bush, "I don't know enough of him but from what I hear he's a total idiot."

That's my girl!

Yup, that's my girl!

I think it appropriate to end with quotes from the girls themselves. The quotes are in answer to "Who would you vote for if you could?"

"I don't know. Who's running again? Oh yeah, it's that John Kerry dude and George Bush, right? . . . It's a rather hard decision; they're both d#@*hebags."

"Vote for who? Oh, president? Uh . . . nobody. I don't like presidents."

"....."

~A quote each from the girls, our daughters.