Introducing 10 Questions
Hot Air and I are co-sponsors with techPresident’s new project, “10 Questions,” a “people-powered online presidential forum.” We think it’s important to add balance, so we’re asking our readers to create their own questions to the presidential candidates and go vote on the questions already posted on the site. Bryan explains:
It’ll be divvied up in two rounds spanning two months, with the first round starting today. In Round 1, anyone with a video camera and the ability to upload to YouTube, MySpace Yahoo Video, or Blip.tv can submit a video question. To enter, upload your video question to one of these sites and tag it “10questions.” Be sure to give it a descriptive title so others can find it. And if you want, add additional tags that describe it further. The questions should be addressed to the candidates as a group, as opposed to any single candidate.
At the end of the first round, the questions will be collected from those sites and put on the 10 Questions site, where anyone can vote on which ones should be answered by the presidential candidates. In Round 2, the candidates tape their answers and upload them for judging. Round 2 begins on November 17, so you have until then to come up with a question, shoot it and submit it. 10 Questions ends on December 31.
What would you ask that the stenographers and water-carriers in the MSM won’t ask?
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Instead of Video questions I’d like to have all of them have a Psychiatric evaluation before any of them even think about getting in the White House, one of them especially….. she belongs in a cracker factory.
Why is it more important for politicians to cater to the Hispanic vote than to secure the borders of our country?
Why is every other country in the world allowed to secure their borders with no comment but Americans are called racist for wanting to secure theirs?
I’d really like to see a presidential forum where the candidates are all wired up to lie detectors.
Trust me, no one ever wants to see me ona video camera, so I’ll just ask here:
Mr. Candidate: Will you challenge the patriotism of those Americans who want the US defeated in the War?
Yea, and everytime one of them lies, he should get zapped with a mild, but stinging electric current.
If we did similar to the Dems, we’d see alot of dancing going on behind Hillary’s podium.
#1 – AJ, the “ink Blot” test would be telling, wouldn’t it?
1. Will you veto all spending bills until they actually contain real cuts and kill all pork projects?
2. Will you kill every effort to convert private-sector goods and services (such as health care) into government-run debacles?
3. Will you appoint judges who will protect Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
4. Will you trim the cabinet-level posts by 1/3?
5. Will you tell all your cronies to take a walk when it comes time for appointments?
6. Will you completely seal the borders?
7. Will you push for legislation that removes voting rights of those on the public dole?
8. Will you push for the repeal of hideous laws, such as McCain-Feingold, gun control laws, and handouts and appeasements to everyone with a grievance?
9. Will you finish the war against radical Islamic terrorists, including Iraq and Afghanistan?
10. Will you call on the carpet those who undermine the US in its quest to protect its citizens (Rosie, Sheehan, certain Democrats in Congress)?
Bonus Question: Will you keep America informed more than a quick radio address on Saturday mornings and when things have gotten beyond control?
I can’t help it — one more question:
Will you tell Congress to stop passing meaningless “resolutions” and actually get back to work. If they decide to continue with their gum-flapping, then will you call for their resignations for dereliction of duty?
I’m pretty sure that would require a full-blown constitutional amendment.
Will your views on any subject cause us to use a willing suspension of disbelief?
James, you are probably right. The president doesn’t have the power to do all the things I listed, which is why I said “push for.” Certainly, it would take guts.
Hey, we can hope, can’t we?
When was the last time you read the Constitution of the United States?
That we can
ACHefty you already asked most of my questions for me, but I am with James Felix on #7.
Will you commit to implementing a plan which will completely eliminate Social Security over next 20 years.
I would ask the following question: How do you feel about the affects of NAFTA on the US economy, and (SPP) the Security and Prosperity Partnership, which will lead to the continued integration of the Canadian, US and Mexican nations.
Will you support, fund, and deploy an anti-ballistic missile defense system for the United States?
hmmm “10 questions”… twelve comments… make that 13.
I’ll stick with the ultimate “pc” question… “Paper or plastic?”…
I was reading my electronic file copy last week. Lately I find myself scanning it a couple of times a month.
Why can’t they figure out, that if you chase the “Swing Vote” you will turn alot of your base into the “Swing Vote” because they know you are ignoring them and taking them for granted!! huh how come.
Why can’t politicians figure out that they have to live in this country too, and their voting patterns, effects them as much as any other American Citizen. Think before passing laws, you don’t think, will effect you personally.
Why can’t the politicians figure out that if you don’t have a healthy middle class (See Mexico as example) YOUR Country goes to Hell. Playing Class Warfare to get yourself elected, isn’t about American Citizens, it is about your Power Hunger…and why do the politicians think we can’t figure out the difference btw a Politician and a Statesman?
I am an American I don’t want you to do what you think is for my own good, I want you to represent me, that is why I voted for you. I don’t need a Mommy or a Daddy.
I am NOT a Globalist, I am an American, if you try and saddle the American people, with this identity, don’t be suprized when they buck you off.
If you can’t marry your self interest to your oath of office, don’t run for office.
Charity begins at home, worry about American Citizens before citizens in the rest of the World..I promise their countrys, are not thinking of American Citizens and putting us first. Yes, I understand the intracies of international trade agreements and how that keeps Americans employed…do you?
The American Military comes through for their country everytime, how about showing them the respect they deserve. Next time you can’t vote against a Slur aganist an American Military Officer, supposedly an Add, in a major American newspaper or any other Media entity, re think your position. You vote to confirm a General, and then when he does his job, and it doesn’t fit your Political Agenda, you disrespect him in front of his Country, the same Country, he has taken an oath to protect and serve.
Civic Classes, I think every American Politician taking office should have to pass at least the same citizen test Naturalized Americans have to.
Finally remember who you have to answer to, the corporations who try to buy you off, their votes only count once just like the rest of us. Hint there are more of us.
1. Can you tell the truth?
2. Can you tell the truth?
3. Can you tell the truth?
4. Can you tell the truth?
5. Can you tell the truth?
6. Can you tell the truth?
7. Can you tell the truth?
8. Can you tell the truth?
9. Can you tell the truth?
10. Can you tell the truth?
#21
They’d answer this one with a lie.
#5
Why a “mild” current? They should suffer the same kind of shocks we all suffer daily.
Can you define what it means to be patriotic?
With the questions usually asked, does it really matter? They dance around them anyway, you might as well ask them if like frosted flakes or corn flakes?
Will you reject your federal pension and settle for regular social security?
Will you reject your special medical treatment and settle for my HMO?
Same question 2 different ways:
1. Do you want the government to have more control over the lives of Americans?
2. Do you want America to move from a Representative Republic to a Centralized Socialist State?
Do you know what “is” is?
Does GOD believe in you?
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
(Sorry, couldn’t help myself)
1. What type of judges would you appoint? Those that consult international law and view the constitution as a living document?
It’s Hilly’s turn – ‘Boxers or Briefs?’
Just Kidding.
Mr or Ms Candidate, will you admit that ‘McCain Feingold’ as implemented is a disaster?
Every question posed should start with,
“Without doing the Cha Cha…”
Insert your favorite Politician HERE
I promise to form a committee consisting of representatives from Greenpeace, National Geographic, Rainbow Push and, of course, Al Gore. We will bring a bill before Congress and attach it to the bill for funding the Iraq war to insure it is approved. I assure you, Woodchucks will not be discriminated against and that their children will receive the best education, free health care and free dental no matter their legal status in this country. We will also study the effects that chucking wood has on the environment and the damage caused to our carbon diluted atmosphere. I will get back to you on our findings. *wink – nod
The federal government has “borrowed” over $2 Trillion from the Social Security Trust Fund.
a. What are your plans to repay this debt?
b. Are you in favor of ceasing any further ability of the federal government from “borrowing” from Social Security for any reason?
Social Security must be addressed now. Unlike other federal programs, it is not an “entitlement program per se. All US citizens have 15% of their eligible income contributed to the trust
every year. That money, if truly held in trust for its participants, would be earning interest and compounding in value each year. For those that will retire in the next 10 to 20 years, the amount of those contributions over a lifetime of work would be more than adequate to comfortably provide for those participant’s retirement needs.
Does the federal government plan to honor its promise to provide social security benefits to US citizens? And if so, how?
ACHefty #7:
Your question,
“7. Will you push for legislation that removes voting rights of those on the public dole?”
just might have to be addressed, sooner rather than later.
I’m reminded of the folowing quotation:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
I found it at this site (sorry, not expert at hyperlinking):
http://lorencollins.net/tytler.html
which states:
“Who penned the above words? If one were to put one’s faith in the reliability of the internet, the obvious answer would be Alexander Tytler. Or Alexander Tyler. Or Arnold Toynbee. Or Lord Thomas Macaulay. Or…
The truth is that despite their frequent use, the author(s) of the above quotes are unknown. With regard to the first quoted paragraph, the Library of Congress’ Respectfully Quoted writes, “Attributed to ALEXANDER FRASER TYTLER, LORD WOODHOUSELEE. Unverified.” The quote, however, appears in no published work of Tytler’s.
OK.
Now that the provenance of the quotation has been dealt with, to the point:
ACHefty’s question #7 may very well become critical very soon, what with the expansion of the welfare state, and the push for further expansion of the welfare state that uncontrolled, illegal, amnestied immigration would bring in its wake.
Perhaps we need such a law – sooner, rather than later.
If an amendment to the Constitution was found to be required, then fine; so be it.
Take the gloves off now, and have a serious legislative battle for such an amendment.
It may be a bruising and titanic legislative battle; but, the alternative might be a return to the situation in the U.S. in the first half of the 1860s.
Stop and think about the quotation above.
It illustrates well the instability of a system that has no stabilizing, negative feedback; which is sort of how we’re set up now:
When more and more people on the public dole vote themselves more and more benefits, and vote for the expansion of those benefits to more and more people, then the collapse of the system is inevitable and guaranteed – just as a Ponzi scheme must ultimately collapse.
Negative feedback means that when an effect is produced, an antagonist of that effect is produced, which then leads to a decrease of that effect, which then leads to a decrease in that antagonist. (Which lives in the house that Jack built…sorry.)
In our present system, where is the stabilizing antagonist to the increased and expanded governement benefits?
Thw answer is that there is none.
Hence, our present system is one of positive feedback; which, as far as I am aware, is inherently unstable.
folLowing, rather
Hmm…better at hyperlinking than I’d thought….
(Actually, this site “hypered” it.)
ThE answer, rather.
Mrs. Clinton, if elected, will you wear the Hijab when you meet with leaders from Islamic countries? What message will this send to women in those countries?
Wow! Thanks for all that, Granite. You explained in its entirety what I was wanting to say briefly. I sure wish candidates — even one — would stop pandering and stop trying to out-spend even before they take office.
I don’t have all the answers, but I certainly want a few from the politicians before I tap the touch-screen for them…
ACHefty:
Thanks; and sorry for the essay.
Wish i coulda been briefer.
As the saying goes, sometimes, when you ask a guy what time it is, he tells you how to build a watch!
I’d like to ask Hillary one, simple question:
If, as you so fervently hope, you become President of the United States, when dealing with Muslim Chiefs of State, would you wear head covering and no makeup?
1. Are you smarter than a 5th grader?
2. Do you know the meaning of “common sense”?
3. Will you put an end to “hyphenated-Americanism”?
4. Do you have the intestinal fortitude required to tell our enemies where to go?
5. Will you support a constitutional amendment for congressional term-limits similar to those imposed by congress on the Presidency?
6. Will you ignore or follow poll results in making decisions?
7. Will you condemn those in government that are openly supporting the enemies of the United States as the traitors they are?
8. Will you support a constitutional amendment to ban pork spending completely and thereby prohibiting attachments to bills or laws that do not relate to the subject of said bill or law?
9. Will you build the fence and secure the border to prevent illegal entry into this country?
10. Will you enforce the laws afainst hiring illegal workers to stop the job magnet in its tracks?
What immediate steps will you take to get us out of the UN (and fill the bldg w/homeless people or whatever better use it would serve)?
Will you fire and replace all appointed judges immediately with members of our party (as Bill Clinton did without comment)? That’s your prerogative, so don’t blow it.
Will you give the taxpayers the same health and retirement programs that federal employees enjoy at our expense?
If not, why not? You’re not royalty or even close.
Will you finally put the SS & Medicare payments into a lockbox (and invest w/interest)? The government has treated the $$$ they extract from taxpayers as a general fund – money in, money out – and that’s WRONG!
Sorry, gramma is ticked!
What do you consider the greatest threat (internal as well as external) to the security of the United States, and what measures/steps will you take to protect us from this threat?
That is awesome. I’m in. Won’t be able to get vid up for awhile though. Grr. Out of country for a bit. Hope to see many of you guys up there!
Do you believe the property I acquire, from whatever source, belongs to me or to the government?
Will you tie the annual increases to Social Security to the increases in pay and benefits that Congress receives?
Kudos, Granite.
I like the sound of my own voice and the sight of my own text. Shameless plugs, I suppose.
Either way, I guess the bottom line is that we want to see government back in the job of governing. Nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else.
Now, everyone else out there, go read another of my columns. GOP: Gipper’s Original Plan
re: #28
Excellent… Excellent… EXCELLENT QUESTION!!!
Enlarging upon #42s #7 – a constitutional amendment that any former US President that trashes our country on foreign soil whether for a fee, or otherwise, shall immediately lose all retirement benefits including bodyguards. There needs to be a penalty for such acts of treason. Could we make that retroactive?
On October 17th, 2007 at 2:50 pm, USMCgramma said:
That would be like Bill Gates losing a million bucks. When they have enough money, slapping their wrist will hardly make them stop.
On October 17th, 2007 at 2:49 pm,
Thanks. Sometimes I CAN be serious.
Question for John Edwards:
What do you think it will be like to be the first female President?
With the Hillary (really it’s Bill) as a candidate and the Shill relying on and referring so often to billyjeffy to ’sway’ the voters…( not a chance she’s in the top ten without the red dress destroyer)….what’s to stop future presidents from doing the same thing for what would in reality be a 4 term = 16 year presidency?
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Presidential term limits? just run the spouse , or maybe one of the kids..
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Dems would do this.
What is your worldview? Unfortunately, I’m not sure many of the current crop of candidates would even understand the question.
Will you push for term limits for every position in government?
Considering that the amount of corn required to make ten gallons of ethanol would feed a child for a year, that the current rush to use US crop land to produce corn for fuel rather than food has dramatically raised food prices globally, contributing to severe food shortages in Africa: Do you support the current concept of government mandates and subsidies for the production of ethanol?
Were America to decide that securing it’s energy security shouldn’t mean that we increasingly protect every dsyfunctional petro-state at astronomical cost; would you support a Manhattan II, a crash program to develop completely independent energy sources to continue to fuel US freedom and enterprise?
Would you be willing to include rapid development of US petroleum sources to bridge the temporary gap between our current dependence and planned independence?
Would you be willing to include nuclear technology in that plan?
Are you familiar with the inherently safe “Pebble-Bed” nuclear technology and it’s potential not only to produce electricity, but to directly convert steam to hydrogen?
Would, in your opinion, new clean and robust energy technology effectively undercut the public rationales professed in the current nuclear proliferation crisis?
While Reagan self-comparisons seem de-rigeur in this primary; do you have a broader “now” based concept of how you will convince Americans that you are the best man to lead and guide America in this day and age?
Do you believe conservatism must be hyphenated, that it must be qualified to be acceptable to American voters?
We’ve seen the extremes of poll-driven governance in the 90’s to the bunkhouse mentality of the Administration in this decade; what is your vision of an effective American president’s continuing conversation with the public?
Reagan defeated Sovet Communism and US “malaise” with a solidly Democratic Congress: How would you plan to succeed in such a circumstance?
Do you remember when President Bush was first elected and he wanted to change the tone in Washington? He reached out and passed a Ted Kennedy education bill. He made the first gesture but the left is still so angry about everything. The Randi Rhodes episode is a perfect example of that.
What is the difference between a campaign contribution and a bribe? Where do you draw the line between them?
Changing the tone in Washington… I don’t think even Reagan was optimistic enough to claim such a goal. Yet Reagan was far more successful with an opposition congress. I think it’s not just the charm, the optimism, the faith; I think it’s also the gumballs, and W simply is no RR.
#51 Do not underestimate the amount of pain and humiliation I would inflict on those men who are without honor. Once upon a time, treason was a serious crime.
Yesterday I was in DC at the Republican Jewish Coalition 2008 Candidate Forum. Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Thompson were all there, as well as Sam Brownback and several Senators.
I asked Senator Thompson the following…
“I am a republican blogger who understands that with freedom of the press comes responsibility. Are you willing to enforce the Bush Doctrine of cracking down on anybody that aids or harbors terrorists, even if it is our own cultural institutions? Specifically, our poison ivy league universities have Tea with Mussolini and Columbian Coffee with Armageddonijad, and our troops get killed when their cover is blown by the Jayson Blair Times. How will you, being a member of the media yourself, balance freedom of speech with keeping those who abuse those freedoms from getting our soldiers killed, and inviting terrorists on our universities when they should be at Guantanamo Bay?”
I spoke quickly to make the quesiton not seem long, and his answer was FABULOUS! He hit a home run, and I want all the candidates to answer that question.
I will publish his answer tomorrow or Friday, or one can go to the RJC podcast to see how he responded.
Respectfully,
eric
http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
ACH,
A good list, bit I would amend the following:
Make that Life, Liberty, and PROPERTY.
Would be nice (Tocqueville warned us against giving people or congress the power to vote themselves money), but not constitutional. The best we could hope for is an end-run around the Dhimmicrats and give D.C. residents the right to vote in Maryland state elections in lieu of separate statehood rights and representatives.
A president has no more business than a Senator to call on the carpet any private citizen who is expressing their opinion. (That’s MM’s job!
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GaijinBob,
Thanks for your input on my ten questions.
The pursuit of happiness is part and parcel to property. I am still fuming over the SCOTUS decision on Kelo. How many ways to say wrong?
I agree (as a former resident of the People’s Republic of Maryland that adding DC residents to the voting bloc would be a good alternative to statehood. However, that would require a constitutional amendment as well, since their voting “rights” are outlined already.
As for “calling on the carpet,” I mean the proverbial Bully Pulpit. WJClinton was a master at it. “W” is not. We need a GOP president who can flatly state that dissent is fine, but when you undermine the efforts of those who are protecting our shores and our freedom, it borders on treason. At minimum it is criminal. Time to call it what it is.
For example, when will anyone in Congress or government decry the wanton vandalism of our military facilities and monuments?
BlackTygrrrrrrrrrrr, good to see you back in action.
Michelle, keep up the good work!
This question is for the Democrat contenders. Are you in favor of changing the consitution of this republic over to a muslim type country similar to Iran?