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So, given the chance, what would you ask McCain?
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Coremodels
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Yeah, I'd like to know how the guy can introduce a bill like the Detainee Amendment, limiting interrogation techniques to only what's in the military field manual...and then 2 years later sign a bill allowing every other intelligence agency to basically disregard it completely.
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captain janks
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i would ask him why he is such a flip flopper.
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Cyclist
Peach District (State of Mind)
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I would ask him if he is related to the the makers of McCain's french fries from your grocer's freezer. Mmmmmm! McCain!
Ask him if he would re-stimulate the US passenger railroad system as president so we can travel form Columbus to Newark on a train. Also ask him to elimniate a regular standing military.
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Brewmaster
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- What did his doctor tell you during your last physical? Lets just say that I have SERIOUS reservations about electing a 72 year old man into the most stressful position in the world. Hell, I would have serious reservations about giving ANY 72 year old a job other than Walmart Greeter. He's going to have to respond to health-related questions at some point.
- Ohio in particular has been battling sprawl, urban abandonment, and land-use issues for decades, which directly affect oil consumption and global warming, two things that are centerpieces to your platform. Specifically, what will you do to address this problem on a federal level? Will you promote alternative transportation infrastructure?
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John Ross
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BetsyB wrote I hope you weren't looking for a better response...maybe you should ask these folks...
Yeah, I actually was hoping for concrete questions that adhere more to the general decorum of situations in which reporters talk with politicians. I know this senator isn't high on everyone's list, but this is a rare opportunity to ask the next U.S. president real questions.
In my experience, you get better, more thoughtful info when you're not being snarky or confrontational.
Brew, I will try my best to ask your last question -- it's a great one. Cyclist, I will not ask him about French fries.
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myliftkk
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Question #1:
Are you offering anything other than a platform based on continuous war and the related growth of the Military-Industrial complex?
Question #2:
Could you distill your plan for the country as a "chickenhawk in every pot"?
Question #3:
Once you've prostrated yourself once for the right-wing, does it get any better or more enjoyable the second, third, fourth, or fifth time?
Question #4:
If you are elected, will you make botox injections a covered service under Medicare?
Question #5:
Since conservatives claim to want results from government, if the Senate health care plan is proven to keep old white men physically vigorous long past their dimished intellectual vigor, how come the rest of us white men cannot have access to that health plan?
Question #6:
When it comes to abstinence-only education, why do you ask people to "just say no" to sex, but not "just say no" to torture?
Question #7:
Since you probably remember, before you bomb Iran, would you mind first apologizing for us staging the initial CIA coup that overthrew their democratically-elected government?
Question #8:
While I find it quite ambitious, how do you expect to win with a campaign slogan of "Same old, same old"
I suppose setting your sights low is the definition of "conservative"... :roll:
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Coremodels
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John Ross wrote
BetsyB wrote I hope you weren't looking for a better response...maybe you should ask these folks...
Yeah, I actually was hoping for concrete questions that adhere more to the general decorum of situations in which reporters talk with politicians. I know this senator isn't high on everyone's list, but this is a rare opportunity to ask the next U.S. president real questions.
In my experience, you get better, more thoughtful info when you're not being snarky or confrontational.
I was being quite serious, btw. The idea of introducing the McCain Detainee Amendment, basically outlawing all questionable interrogation techniques, which he's been outspoken about for obvious reasons, seems in very direct conflict with voting against a bill that would hold the CIA, among other intelligence agencies, to the same standard 2 years later.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/us/politics/17torture.html?ref=politics
Granted, it's not a softball question, but it's a very legitimate one, IMO.
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John Ross
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Coremodels wrote
John Ross wrote
BetsyB wrote I hope you weren't looking for a better response...maybe you should ask these folks...
Yeah, I actually was hoping for concrete questions that adhere more to the general decorum of situations in which reporters talk with politicians. I know this senator isn't high on everyone's list, but this is a rare opportunity to ask the next U.S. president real questions.
In my experience, you get better, more thoughtful info when you're not being snarky or confrontational.
I was being quite serious, btw. The idea of introducing the McCain Detainee Amendment, basically outlawing all questionable interrogation techniques, which he's been outspoken about for obvious reasons, seems in very direct conflict with voting against a bill that would hold the CIA, among other intelligence agencies, to the same standard 2 years later.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/us/politics/17torture.html?ref=politics
Granted, it's not a softball question, but it's a very legitimate one, IMO.
True. Somehow missed that one. Apologies. However, I do prefer Brew's question because it hasn't been asked. Like I did with the mayoral coverage, I'm hoping we can ask questions aimed at younger voters that haven't been covered elsewhere.
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captain janks
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John Ross wrote this is a rare opportunity to ask the next U.S. president real questions.
ask the next U.S. president
the next U.S. president
O RLY?
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Coremodels
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Well, if you want a local hook with an important question, you could ask what his position is on intervention in Darfur. Since not much has changed between now and his commencement speech at Ohio State where he said:
"Take, for example, the awful human catastrophe under way in the Darfur region of the Sudan. If the United States and the West can be criticized for our role in this catastrophe it is because we have waited too long to intervene to protect the multitudes who are suffering, dying because of it."
"In shame and renewed allegiance to our ideals, we swore, not for the first time, “never again.†But never lasted only until the tragedy of Darfur.
Now, belatedly, we have recovered our moral sense of duty, and are prepared, I hope, to put an end to this genocide."
Now, this was all in 2006, when he also co-authored an op-ed for the Washington Post entitled "Rescue Darfur Now". Since 2006, however, the public statements and actions have completely dried up. He hasn't introduced, or even co-sponsored any legislation to deal with the situation.
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John Ross
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captain janks wrote
John Ross wrote this is a rare opportunity to ask the next U.S. president real questions.
ask the next U.S. president
the next U.S. president
O RLY?
That's just a guess, but this is a guessing game, of course. I don't see either Democratic candidate toppling McCain. I've been wrong before, though -- 3rd grade was tough.(Smiley face.)
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Zenperson
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I have two questions for Senator McCain-
1)It's become apparent that corporate greed is destroying America. If elected, what honest, practical and achievable solutions could you offer to enforce ethical reform to bring the rights of individuals back in the focus of major corporations and stop this endless pursuit of cutting costs while trying to fuel expansion that's costing people their right to choose doctors, medications, fuel their cars and in many cases, put food on their table.
2) Explain your philosophical position on the role of war as a leveraging factor in bringing about global peace. Then apply this position to your decision to support invading Iraq and how this decision has empirically supported your position, if at all.
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UncommonSense
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John Ross wrote
BetsyB wrote I hope you weren't looking for a better response...maybe you should ask these folks...
Yeah, I actually was hoping for concrete questions that adhere more to the general decorum of situations in which reporters talk with politicians. I know this senator isn't high on everyone's list, but this is a rare opportunity to ask the next U.S. president real questions.
In my experience, you get better, more thoughtful info when you're not being snarky or confrontational.
Brew, I will try my best to ask your last question -- it's a great one. Cyclist, I will not ask him about French fries.
Honestly, I don't think he'll care what you ask him, but yes, the vote on waterboarding last week is a good one. Or whether courting Jerry Falwell was worth it, or why he now admires Karl Rove who ambushed him in South Carolina in 2000. But please be anything but decorous. Decorum is for Victorian Drawing Rooms and High Tea, not political reporting. Maybe if the Fourth Estate had asked tough questions before the run-up to war, we wouldn't be in Iraq now (and McCain wouldn't say he has no problem with troops there for another hundred years).
Realizing that all of maybe 3 McCain supporters in Columbus have ever even picked up a copy of Alive, he might even give an honest answer. :lol:
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Daz
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I'm really struggling to come up with something to ask that is well thought out, yet doesn't come across as an attack. This is very difficult for me, as I was as big as a McCain fanboy as they get a few years back... then, he deserted all of us, flipped his positions, and left us disenchanted and feeling more and more like modern conservative politics is no place for the hopeful and/or the youth of America.
I feel cheated every time the subject of John McCain comes up.
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John Ross
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UncommonSense wrote
John Ross wrote
BetsyB wrote I hope you weren't looking for a better response...maybe you should ask these folks...
Yeah, I actually was hoping for concrete questions that adhere more to the general decorum of situations in which reporters talk with politicians. I know this senator isn't high on everyone's list, but this is a rare opportunity to ask the next U.S. president real questions.
In my experience, you get better, more thoughtful info when you're not being snarky or confrontational.
Brew, I will try my best to ask your last question -- it's a great one. Cyclist, I will not ask him about French fries.
Honestly, I don't think he'll care what you ask him, but yes, the vote on waterboarding last week is a good one. Or whether courting Jerry Falwell was worth it, or why he now admires Karl Rove who ambushed him in South Carolina in 2000. But please be anything but decorous. Decorum is for Victorian Drawing Rooms and High Tea, not political reporting. Maybe if the Fourth Estate had asked tough questions before the run-up to war, we wouldn't be in Iraq now (and McCain wouldn't say he has no problem with troops there for another hundred years).
Realizing that all of maybe 3 McCain supporters in Columbus have ever even picked up a copy of Alive, he might even give an honest answer. :lol:
I'm not going into the expansive coverage given by major newspapers to the faulty run up to the war. If you think that topic wasn't front-page news, you should probably start reading different newspapers.
Take my word for it: All the best political reporters are polite. They're tough -- grueling at times -- but they're always polite.
I agree -- waterboarding and courting Karl Rove are both good questions to pose.
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