The questions you want Kerry or the public to ask Bush at the debates

[Brian_Expat]

This thread is to post all the questions you want Bush to address at the debates. Post them as answers to this header.

[Brian_Expat]

1. Question on the economy

Mr. President, your economy has been an unmitigated disaster, with the worst job creation performance since Hoover. Every year, Americans are losing income as average income last year declined over ten percent (as reported by the IRS) and the US dollar has lost 1/3 of its value in less than two years.

How can you sit there and claim the "economy is strong" and people are "finding work"? How can you ask for stewardship of the largest economy in the world when your policies have been nothing less than an economic weapon of mass destruction against the middle class?

[WI_DEM]

2. Mr. President, why did you cut and run out of Afghanistan when

we had Bin Ladden on the run to rush into war with Iraq? a country which had nothing to do with 9/11.

[Brian_Expat]

3. Question on civil rights

Mr. President, while Osama bin Laden runs free and the economy continues to crumble, shedding millions of jobs and sending our currency to historic new lows, you have focused most of your time on an amendment to deny gay and lesbian people protection under the Constitution's equal protection clause.

How can you claim to be a "uniter" and not a divider when your entire agenda has been about dividing people -- the rest of America against gays, rich against poor, black against white, Republican against everyone else? And how dare you claim a love of the constitution with your cynical amendment -- unprecedented in its scope to DENY citizens rights -- as well as your claims that you can suspend constitutional rights at will?

[Brian_Expat]

4. Question about lies over Iraq

Mr. President, you claimed that you would "accept full responsibility" if no WMDs were found in Iraq. In fact, you've made the claim that "the buck stops here" several times. However, you've not only led America into a disasterous war that's resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, American and Iraqi alike, but also refused to take responsibility for this war.

My question, Mr. President, is why haven't you resigned for leading America into a quagmire based on lies?

[napi21]

5. Why do you think it's you're right to impose your rules on the world?

Just because America believes democracy is the best form of Gov't for them, other people may prefer something else. Why do you think you havve the right to insist they are wrong and must believe the same as you do, or die fighting against you?

[Brian_Expat]

6. Question about womens' health

Mr. President, please explain how ob-gyns will factor in your 17% hike in Medicare rates. Use your knowledge of the Medicare increase you just approved and explain the impact on provider profitability and service quality.

[gulliver]

7. Do you know who outed the CIA agent?

[G_j]

14. and if you demand such loyalty in your admin.

why haven't YOU demanded that those responsible come forward?

Then again, maybe you already know.

[gulliver]

8. Did you support the war in Vietnam and, if you did, why didn't ...

... you fight in it?

[Catfight]

9. Why did you first refuse the 9/11 commission until public pressure

required you politically to accept it? Why did you and Cheney not go under oath (being a man of religion) and publicly release your records.

Why can't you find the mole in the WH that committed an act of treason and outed a CIA Operative?

What jobs are you going to create for Americans?

How do you plan to pay back the national debt?

WHy after getting a PDB in August of 2001 that clearly warned, "Al Queda Determined To Attack within the United States," possibly using domestic airplanes as weapons, that knowing what ONLY you knew, not John Kerry or anyone else had access to that PDB, did you on the morning of 9/11, AFTER the first plane hit the tower, decide it was more advantageous to go to a photo op than to check it out? Why after the second plane hit did you sit there and not excuse yourself for important presidential things? Why after the second plane hit, did you STILL stay for another 20 minutes to take pictures? How would you explain that if John Kerry did the same thing?

Why don't you hold more press briefings like you promised?

Why have you not attended any US soldiers funerals and claim that you are a man of faith?

Explain fuzzy math, because your plans for the next four years are abstract math?

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. What did you do for over 45 minutes

on the morning of 9-11, while the country was in the midst of a national emergency?

[yellerpup]

11. Mr. President, How many American workers

contacted their representatives in Congress begging to be relieved of their overtime pay?

[Zynx]

12. Why did you never apologize for 9/11?

As president, the executive branch of the government is your responsibility and the executive branch failed to stop 9/11, hence you failed. Since it was your responsibility, why have you never apologized on behalf of the government?

[JI7]

13. why did you need Dick Cheney with you during 9/11 commission

testimony ?

[baldguy]

15. The Clinton Administration worked long and hard

To bring the Israelis and Palestinians together. They were just a few steps away from negotiating a lasting peace - and they needed our help to take those steps. And yet, you chose to abandon these negotiations and ignore the pleas from both sides to help. As a direct result of your non-interventionist policy, we have more anger on both sides, more distrust on both sides, an increased amount of violence in the entire region, and America is more hated, more distrusted, and terrorists are more able to get new recruits to attack America and her allies. In retrospect, wouldn't it have been better for the United States - and the world - if you had continued Clinton's policy of engagement with both sides, rather than abdicating our responsibilities? And, considering that Clinton proved that the Palestinians CAN be negotiated with - do you plan on trying to re-establish the successful Clinton policy?

[Snellius]

16. When you told Tenet "This is all you've got", what changed your mind

According to Woodward's book, after hearing all the evidence against Saddam, Bush said something to the effect "This is what I've been hearing about and this is all you've got." Everyone seems to focus of Tenet's famous response "It's a slam dunk" But I would like to ask Bush what was it that Tenet then said to convince him that all the evidence against Saddam, as Bush himself admitted, was a load of bull.

[Bread and Circus]

17. When did you stop beating your wife?

Works everytime.

[against all enemies]

18. Mr. President, I volunteered for service in Vietnam, to protect my country

You chose to let others do the fighting for you then, and now you let others do you fighting for you by allowing the Swift Boat Veterans to attack my service and the service of other brave men who served. Stand up like a man and tell me why you didn't go to Vietnam and why you allow others to try to disgrace men who did.

[mmonk]

19. I don't have any questions

They will defend themselves with what the American people have already bought "hook, line, and sinker" about the "ownership economy". This campaign will not win because of cowardice to ask the tough questions on the behavior of this government. Instead, this party will only concentrate on job loss, healthcare, and the economy to an American audience that thinks all recent economic woes were attributed to the 9/11 attacks and the "inherited" recession. This strategy is suicide. We can only hope for media coverage of scandal or successful indictments.

[olddem43]

20. Is the "privatization" of Social Security an attempt to reward

your stockbroker supporters, and if not, how will this strengthen Social Security? What would happen to retired workers during a downturn in the stock market? Does Haliburton or Enron have a stock brokerage subsidiary?

[Slit Skirt]

21. would you support an truly indepent commission..

..........to investigate 9/11. Allowing journalists to investigate, havinh access to all documents, ungagging the whistleblowers and all others (including police and firefighters at ground zero), releasing the tapes of the Pentagon attack, releasing all recorded info on the black boxes, .......nah I didn't think so

oh and by the way....you speak of getting advice from a higher power....what "god" was it exactly that "advised" you to sit back and watch thousands of the people you so proudly say "you protect", to die on 9/11 and then send more into Afghanistan and Iraq to die for Haliburton profits..please President Bush tell us....because I don't know that god.....

[gulliver]

22. What is your position on the drug problem and have you ever ...

... personally used drugs?

[hlthe2b]

23. KERRY is NOT going to b allowed to ask Bush* questions

Look back at presidential debates...when is the last time they have allowed the candidates to directly engage each other? NOT GOING TO HAPPEN..........

[vetwife]

24. Well tell me ..Where were you in 72?