Although I am not sure of how I feel about your idea of the voting age (first glance is I think you are right), I then have to slide down that slippery slope to ask, in all seriousness, if taking your idea, we apply it to the women's vote and say that women elected Obama because he was such a charmer. Women love him, not because of his policies but because they think he is cool. Once you begin to remove a segment of the voting population because you think they can't make an intelligent decision, then I am afraid you will have no place to stop.
While Obama remains a great curiosity outside of the U.S., it’s largely his American-ness that draws the crowds, rather than some innate ability of his own.
A man comes from low beginnings and ascends to the White House.
That tale quintessentially remains the American strive-and-succeed story since Washington was first born poor and lowly in a kind-of log cabin.
While Washington is represented as a rich, privileged, white guy, the success Washington enjoyed and the wealth he built -- yes, built -- he earned by working hard on the dangerous and brutal, American frontier, going places often were...
I served in the USAF,1970-74. Servicemen deserve the right to vote.