Suggested questions for VP debate?

[DeeDeeNY]

What kinds of questions would highlight Palin's ignorance within the structured debate format? She's being tutored this week to memorize talking points and attacks to answer just about any question.

[Rambis]

1. Name the justices of the supreme court?

If she doesn't know any rulings she probably doesn't know who handed them down?

[DeeDeeNY]

8. If only!!!

They will be afraid to pose anything that might seem a "gotcha" question.

[Rambis]

11. Senator Biden can you speak in tongues?

Mrs. Pailin will you please demonstrate for us?

[hamsterjill]

30. Good one!!

And hopefully she'd go right into a demonstration on live television!

[iceman66]

13. Even better,

ask her to name someone whom she would consider appointing to the court.

It's a perfectly legitimate question.

[Rambis]

14. good one!

I wonder what clueless half wit she would pick?

[iceman66]

18. I doubt she could come up with a single name.

[Lucky 13]

41. Too hard. Name ONE justice of the supreme court.

[Rambis]

42. I got it

There is a really important one of these in the US, it used to make decisions based on laws until GWB it is called the SUU-PREEEEEM what?

[CarlFrank]

2. Second guessing themselves

I imagine the McCain campaign staff is kicking itself for jumping the gun and trying to cancel the McCain-Obama debate last week. Now they will be hard pressed to try it again with the VP debate, although I bet they are thinking about it. I wonder what the reason will be?

[Madam Mossfern]

5. Some sort of total economic collapse

they've been working on it but haven't pulled out the big gun yet. Remember McCain wanted to cancel because of the present emergency....this will be even worse, but I can't imagine what it would be.

[jberryhill]

3. A question about Trig

(Trigonometry, that is)

[iceman66]

10. That's a good one!

[wilt the stilt]

15. that is not trig n/t

[jberryhill]

34. Thank you Professor Einstein

It was a play on her son's name.

[FSogol]

4. Gwen Ifill: How many branches of government are there in our system?

Gov Palin: In what respect, Gwennie?

[brooklynite]

9. Will this be multiple choice?

[Silent3]

16. Now, now, she might be honestly confused by that question...

...if she's been talking to Cheney. :sarcasm:

[Jersey Devil]

6. Can the Dalai Lama be saved through Christ?

and how would this affect the Tibetan people?

[Youphemism]

7. Afghan leaders plan to meet with Taliban leaders. Is this good or bad?

And what steps should the US take to encourage or discourage this meeting?

[Left Is Write]

12. Afghan leaders are good. I know something about this, because I live in Alaska.

It's cold in Alaska, and our people use afghans to keep warm. So it's very important that we have Afghan leaders, and it's got to be all about job creation.

[backscatter712]

17. What Supreme Court cases can you remember off the top of your head?

OK, maybe not that one - Sarah Parrot will be trained on how to answer that one with some cases other than Roe vs. Wade...

[jberryhill]

19. What's that smell? /nt

[DeeDeeNY]

20. I want to see detailed questions on economics and foreign policy

But that won't happen. Maybe she'll be asked again about the Bush doctrine.

[frickaline]

21. I would want to see them ask her about solutions to the economic crisis

Her position on the bailout package, her explanation of how we got here, what she would like to see for a recovery path.

I think the answer would be hilarious.

{caribou in the headlights stare, uncertain pause}
<insert rambling non sequitur>
uh....cut all spending because when no one is spending, that helps our economy....
<insert rambling non sequitur>

I also would like to hear her speak about women's issues and teenage pregnancy (oh noes, gotcha journalism!).

[WI_DEM]

22. here are two questions they will be asked: Sen Biden what would you put in the bail out package?

and Gov. Palin, where did you get your glasses, they are great!

[grantcart]

23. regarding Georgia

Senator Palin you criticized Russia for invading Georgia. You stated that Georgia should be in NATO and that if such a reoccurence were to happen we should go to war with a country that has thousands of thermonuclear war heads, a war that we would have to fight thousands of miles from home in Russia's back yard.

Given the fact that Georgia started the incident with the shelling of ethnic Russian in South Ossetia neighborhoods and that Russia reacted (and I think we all agree over reacted) to that provocation how is what Russia is doing different from our own stated Monroe Doctrine that we have repeatedly used to intervene in countries in the Western Hemisphere?


That should cause her to call a friend!

[DeeDeeNY]

24. Perfect question, on many levels

But the odds of anything remotely resembling this type of question being asked is close to zero, IMHO.

[snake in the grass]

25. Three questions for Palin.

1) What policies would she initiate to solve the problems with witchcraft that we have in the U.S.? Trial by water or fire?

2) Before the fall of humankind from grace, what did Tyrannosaurus Rex prefer in his diet: leafy vegetables or succulent fruits?

3) When is the rapture and should we close our accounts so that we will have enough money when we get to heaven?

[DeeDeeNY]

31. Along those lines, here is number 4

Which do you prefer -- diamonds or pearls?

[snake in the grass]

46. It's not the same.

The question to Clinton was a fluff job. While I admit that my examples are extreme, anything related to them would put her on the spot about her world views as filtered through her sick religion. To the first one - do witches exist? Second - how old is the world? Third - why is it an imperative to be so greedy? Where Clinton may have been annoyed at the stupidity of the question, Palin would have to do some serious acrobatics to hide the nature of her denomination. Too many people equate being religious or christianist with being a good person. Her group is anything but good and that should come out.

[DeeDeeNY]

47. I see your point

[BurtWorm]

26. Who won the Stanley Cup in 1973, and who did they defeat?

I bet she couldn't even answer that!

[SoxFan]

27. swimsuit competition

Gotta give Sarah a fighting chance in at least one round, right?

[Norrin Radd]

49. I just pictured Biden in a Speedo.

[jhain]

28. Do you Remember Poland?? n/t

[BurtWorm]

33. Do you remember... your president Nixon?

Do you remember the bills you have to pay
Or even yesterday?

[treestar]

29. Why do U.S. Americans know so little about world geography?

[DeeDeeNY]

32. That's easy -- They don't have enough maps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WALIARHHLII

[cloudythescribbler]

35. What specific measures to promote wind, solar, & hydrogen energy, as well as energy conservation ...

do you support?

[BurtWorm]

36. The hammers,,,

The hammers is the nickname of what British football team?

[JimboDem]

37. Are You Wired?

Go Joe!:kick:

[jhain]

38. Can we have the stew recipe? n/t

[jhain]

39. Oh !! OH!!

I almost forgot!

"What DOES the Vice President do all day?"

[DeeDeeNY]

40. Good one!

:rofl:

[spanone]

43. if your daughter had been raped by a brown skinned terrorist, would you insist she give birth?

[TornadoTN]

44. Do polar bears like hot or cold weather? What shape is this ABC block that I'm holding up?

What color is the sky? Why do dogs have cold noses? Do you like Hot Dogs or Hamburgers better?

[DeeDeeNY]

45. Which is easier - putting lipstick on a pig or a pitbull?

[XemaSab]

48. What are your 5 favorite American novels?

What are your 5 favorite foreign novels?

What are your 5 favorite works of nonfiction?

What are your 5 favorite poems?

What were your 5 favorite books as a child?

:shrug:

[XemaSab]

50. Name three Bush administration decisions or policies you agree with

and name three policies or decisions you think should be overturned.

[DeeDeeNY]

53. I wish you were writing the debate questions!!

[XemaSab]

54. Ifill usually does a good job

Vice President Cheney, there have been new developments in Iraq, especially having to do with the administration's handling. Paul Bremer, the former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, gave a speech in which he said that we have never had enough troops on the ground, or we've never had enough troops on the ground. Donald Rumsfeld said he has not seen any hard evidence of a link between Al Qaida and Saddam Hussein. Was this approved -- of a report that you requested that you received a week ago that showed there was no connection between Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Saddam Hussein?

Time for a new question but the same topic. And this time to you, Senator Edwards. You and Senator Kerry have said that the war in Iraq is the wrong war at the wrong time. Does that mean that if you had been president and vice president that Saddam Hussein would still be in power?

Tonight we mentioned Afghanistan. We believe that Osama bin Laden is hiding perhaps in a cave somewhere along the Afghan-Pakistan border. If you get a second term, what is your plan to capture him and then to neutralize those who have sprung up to replace him?

New question to you, Senator Edwards, but I don't want to let go of the global test question first, because... I want people to understand exactly what it is, as you said, that Senator Kerry did say. He said, "You've got to do" -- you know, he was asked about preemptive action at the last debate -- he said, "You've got to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons." What is a global test if it's not a global veto?

When the president says that Senator Kerry is emboldening enemies and you say that we could get hit again if voters make the wrong choice in November, are you saying that it would be a dangerous thing to have John Kerry as president?

Senator Edwards, new question to you, and you have two minutes to respond. Part of what you have said and Senator Kerry has said that you are going to do in order to get us out of the problems in Iraq is to internationalize the effort. Yet French and German officials have both said they have no intention even if John Kerry is elected of sending any troops into Iraq for any peacekeeping effort. Does that make your effort or your plan to internationalize this effort seem kind of naive?

New question, similar topic, because I want to circle back to a question which I'm not quite certain we got an answer to. But I will direct it to you first, Senator Edwards. It's a question of American intelligence. If this report that we've read about today is true, and if Vice President Cheney ordered it and asked about this, do you think that, in the future, that your administration or the Bush administration would have sufficient and accurate enough intelligence to be able to make decisions about where to go next?

Mr. Vice President, in June of 2000 when you were still CEO of Halliburton, you said that U.S. businesses should be allowed to do business with Iran because, quote, "Unilateral sanctions almost never work." After four years as vice president now, and with Iran having been declared by your administration as part of the "Axis of Evil," do you still believe that we should lift sanctions on Iran?

Senator Edwards, as we wrap up the foreign policy part of this, I do want to talk to you about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Today, a senior member of Islamic Jihad was killed in Gaza. There have been suicide bombings, targeted assassinations, mortar attacks, all of this continuing at a time when the United States seems absent in the peace-making process. What would your administration do? First of all, do you agree that the United States is absent? Maybe you don't. But what would your administration do to try to resolve that conflict?

Mr. Vice President, the Census Bureau ranked Cleveland as the biggest poor city in the country, 31 percent jobless rate. You two gentlemen are pretty well off. You did well for yourselves in the private sector. What can you tell the people of Cleveland, or people of cities like Cleveland, that your administration will do to better their lives?

Senator Kerry said in a recent interview that he absolutely will not raise taxes on anyone under -- who earns under $200,000 a year. How can he guarantee that and also cut the deficit in half, as he's promised?

I want to read something you said four years ago at this very setting: "Freedom means freedom for everybody." You said it again recently when you were asked about legalizing same-sex unions. And you used your family's experience as a context for your remarks. Can you describe then your administration's support for a constitutional ban on same-sex unions? As the vice president mentioned, John Kerry comes from the state of Massachusetts, which has taken as big a step as any state in the union to legalize gay marriage. Yet both you and Senator Kerry say you oppose it. Are you trying to have it both ways?

This one is for you, Mr. Vice President. President Bush has derided in John Kerry for putting a trial lawyer on the ticket. You yourself have said that lawsuits are partly to blame for higher medical costs. Are you willing to say that John Edwards, sitting here, has been part of the problem?

Senator Edwards, new question to you, same topic. Do you feel personally attacked when Vice President Cheney talks about liability reform and tort reform and the president talks about having a trial lawyer on the ticket?

I will talk to you about health care, Mr. Vice President. You have two minutes. But in particular, I want to talk to you about AIDS, and not about AIDS in China or Africa, but AIDS right here in this country, where black women between the ages of 25 and 44 are 13 times more likely to die of the disease than their counterparts. What should the government's role be in helping to end the growth of this epidemic?

Ten men and women have been nominees of their parties since 1976 to be vice president. Out of those ten, you have the least governmental experience of any of them. What qualifies you to be a heartbeat away?

Mr. Vice President, picking up on that, you both just sang the praises of the tops of your ticket. Without mentioning them by name at all, explain to us why you are different from your opponent, starting with you, Mr. Vice President.

Flip-flopping has become a recurring theme in this campaign, you may have noticed. Senator Kerry changed his mind about whether to vote to authorize the president to go to war. President Bush changed his mind about whether a homeland security department was a good idea or a 9/11 Commission was a good idea. What's wrong with a little flip-flop every now and then?

Whichever one of you is elected in November -- you mentioned those three electoral votes in Wyoming and how critical they've turned out to be. But what they're a sign of also is that you're going to inherit a very deeply divided electorate, economically, politically, you name it. How will you set out, Mr. Vice President, in a way that you weren't able to in these past four years, to bridge that divide?

http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2004b.html

I'd pay good money to see Palin (try to) answer some of those questions. :popcorn:

[DeeDeeNY]

56. The format for this debate might not allow those types of questions

But I guess we'll find out soon enough

[Norrin Radd]

51. What ...is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[XemaSab]

52. Why is NATO important in a post-Soviet world?

:shrug:

Follow up question: Why should we maintain military bases in Germany and Italy, among other countries? Would you support allowing other countries to have bases here in a reciprocal agreement? :shrug:

[SoonerPride]

55. Gov Palin: are you fucking putting us on?

I mean really?