NEW YORK — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama told young potential voters Saturday that his multicultural background lets him “see through the eyes of other people” in ways another president could not.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke of helping students pay off college debt with national service, increased Pell grants and other college aid.
The two Democrats and Republicans Mike Huckabee and Rep. Ron Paul joined in a youth-oriented forum sponsored by MTV, The Associated Press and MySpace, each fielding questions by satellite.
Huckabee complained that he always gets “the God questions” when he’d rather be talking about public policy.
Paul said he opposed U.S. intervention in Sudan’s Darfur region and placed little faith in the ability of the United Nations to relieve the crisis there.
