Ironic the kid's name is Sleaster... McCain seems to have handled the situation in a very diplomatic way to a student who was quite disrespectful.

McCain's nuts! What's he doing addressing kids in a HS. The only ones in HS who will be old enought vote in the next election are also the one's old enough to drink!

Wow! That was disrespectful of the teenager. McCain has served our country for many years and I don't think he deserved that.

How can you claim that it is "disrespectful" to question the beliefs and discuss the issues of a man who wants to be the President of an entire, diverse nation? To say the Senator did not "deserve" that kind of aggressive questioning is complacent. We ALL, no matter our beliefs or political leanings, should question our want-to-be leaders and ask them the tough questions and not allow them to sidestep around real issues affecting millions of Americans. I say good for you Mr. Sleaster for being an intelligent young man and not accepting simplified political speech.

Mr. Sleaster gives me faith in the youth of today the way that Miss South Carolina did not.

Way to go!

Kudos to the kid for speaking the truth! McCain is no leader and never will be.

Its too often we coddle senators, congress men and women that we are in the sad situation we are in today. Time we call all these fools for who they are "Cowards"

Defend the damn constitution and Impeach this administration.

Disrespectful?!! It is our duty to ask hard questions of anyone who wants to be the president. If ANY of the media had done this in 2000 we wouldn't be stuck with the monkey in the white house we have now!

Disrespectful are you kidding me? The HS student was dead on with his concerns, he asked profound questions and received a typical answer from a politician. What else would expect from someone who is so hypocritical as to demand resignation from one senator and not the other when the only differences in the choice of the illegal service provider was the gender of the person. Are they not the same offense, and in fact one is clearly the adulterer and one is an attempted adulterer…so much for the so called moral superior party.

"So you believe in taking away someone's rights becuase you believe it's wrong?" The idiocy of this statement shows just how much this Sleaster kid has been spoon fed the pro homosexual agenda via mass media. Homosexuals have no right to marry so there's no right to deny. No one has the right to do drugs though many do and many more think that there's nothing wrong with it. Just becuase someone wants to do something they don't automatically have a "right" to do it. I thought my generation was pretty pathetic but this shows that the next one is even worse.

McCain is a relic. Wake up, candidates! Whether these kids are old enough to vote in the next election isn't the point. This is the next generation of voters and I think this young man did an excellent job of voicing their dissatisfaction with the status-quo.

Typical reaction from a snot-nosed punk who doesn't want to hear another opinion other than the one already formed in his indoctrinated left-wing so-called mind.

No one running for office deserves respect. That's a guise they hide behind in an attempt to have people NOT question them.

Gay marriage threatens hetero marriage HOW??? I'm STILL waiting for an answer!

The child who spoke of taking away someone's rights fails to understand the difference between privileges and rights. It is illegal to marry your sibling in all 50 states regardless of how much you care for each other. Does that mean your right to marriage has been taken away? No, it means your right to think like an idiot has been upheld and your friendly federal government has protected you from your stupidity. Likewise, those with other immoral leanings are also protected from themselves for their own good as well as the nation's. If they should decide to behave as God and nature have designed them, they are free to marry any non relative of the opposite gender that they choose. As long as they are not illegal aliens :-)

“Discrimination in any form is unacceptable in America today?” Well, what the heck does McCain think "Don't Ask Don't Tell" and being anti-gay marriage all about???

The kid was disrespectful, but he was right. This is why I don't do sitting Senators for president. They're not leaders, they're a bunch of deliberators who think they should be president. If he was a leader, he would have said just what Pete said. You can't deny someone a right that they don't have. I'm sure most pedophiles would like to have conjugal visits in prison from minors. Is this their right? Are we denying them? We give conjugal visits to other prisoners. Hence the slippery slope. Fortunately, most pedophiles have the good sense not to ask.

Pete brings up a good point. Gay people can't get married now, so the wording of Sleaster's comment may not quite apply. But he also shows the desperation that homophobic bigots are experiencing across the country, as more and more Americans are becoming supportive of gay and lesbian people and their struggle to enjoy the same rights as their straight counterparts.

His comment:

"I thought my generation was pretty pathetic but this shows that the next one is even worse."

I'll agree on one point... his generation was indeed pretty pathetic when it came to expanding the American civil rights struggle to include everyone. The next generation, if the last 10 years of polls are accurate, will do a much better job.

I love it when youth show up the adults.

I am so tired of hearing the lame argument comparing loving, adult, consensual same-sex relationships with pedophilia. Are you people for real? You really think that the abuse of a child, who lacks any power or ability to provide informed consent for an adult relationship, is the same as a committed relationship between two adult same-sex partners? It's so easy to show how this argument is invalid that it amazes me that people continue to use it to justify their own bigotry.

This is exactly the reason why we're in the mess we're in today. People don't think. They don't want to think. They want their pastors or their priests or their parents or their president to tell them what to think. I always thought that being an adult was all about being able to think critically about things like this.

John McCain divorced his first wife for a younger, richer wife before carpet-bagging himself to Arizona to get a Senatorial seat by playing up his POW-ness. Why the views on marriage by a confessed cheater should be respected is something I don't understand.