Sep 20 2008
20 Questions For Democrats
Copious Dissent has created a video asking 20 great questions they would like those left of center to answer. They request no questions be given as an answer. I also am very curious as to how democrats will answer these.
Those of you that are left of center, please, take the time to answer. You can do so here and I will pass the answers on, or visit them at http://copiousdissent.blogspot.com/2008/09/20-questions-for-democrats-and-barack.html
I (as are many) look forward to hearing your responses.
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Here, I’ll give you the right wing talking points for answering questions.
1-19: 9/11
20: Executive Privilege
1. I really don’t know as I am not a privy to the thinking of Nancy Pelosi
2. We do not want to disarm. It is a common sense idea of just not having automatic weapons. They are not needed for protection or hunting.
3. I’m not against vouchers
4. I’m not against it.
5. I think it’s a combination of man-made and natural change in environment.
6. Not all do
7. We need to protect national parks and keep some things green. Not cover every inch of land should be occupied by people.
8. I’m more interested in regulating the health insurance companies.
9. No
10. Look, if we can have it, we can’t yell at other countries for it…
11. It is damaging to the earth, and it is only a band aid
12. Because it is called gauging
13. No. It is needed. Go to an inner city school with books 20 years old or older, walls caving in and not enough desks for the students to all sit.
14. Can you clarify this? This doesn’t seem like a question rather more of an accusation.
15. I repeat my answer to #14
16. They don’t kill people do they? White-collar crimes generally do not involve the death of innocent people as in a drive by, a gas station robbery, etc.
17. Most don’t pay 0.
18. I’m not.
19. Explain this question as I stated in 14 & 15
20. Who says I do?
These questions are assuming that everyone who is a democrat or liberal or however you choose to label us agrees with every single thing Democrat in office or running for office say or do. Not true. Just as my Republican friends and relatives have hated most of what Bush has done and don’t care for McCain.
In order to be behind one party does not mean you have to agree with every single thing. You simply have to agree and believe in that party more than the other.
~Kelly
http://www.30somethingandsearching.today.com/
1. Pelosi and Reid aren’t the only Democrats in Congress.
2. If nobody had guns, nobody would get shot. Sure, it’s in the Bill of Rights, but those same amendments also say that a black man is equal to three-fourths of a white man.
3. Every child is entitled to a quality education. If we allow private schools to teach that the Earth is only a little over 6,000 years old and dinosaur bones were planted by the Jews, we’re not giving them the education they deserve.
4. Not everyone’s college education should be funded by the government, but if a student is passionate, has the right grades for Harvard Law, and is just 100 grand short of getting there, I don’t mind chipping in a little to help him out.
5. Look at any chart detailing the temperature of the planet throughout the past million years and tell me that there hasn’t been a rapid change in climate in the past 100 years.
6. A free market is good. It’s hard not to answer these with questions, but I really don’t know what I’m being accused of.
7. I haven’t heard anyone argue that we’re running out of space, but I’ll do so now. Humans aren’t the sole inheritors of the Earth. Just because we can fill up the entire state of Texas doesn’t mean we should.
8. You say “failure,” I say “who calls the European systems a ‘failure’?”
9. Let’s pay off the nine trillion dollars we don’t have by taxing the major corporations who don’t even operate in America and create our own forms of energy through wind and solar power. Or we could bomb Iran.
10. I’m all behind nuclear power and so is my Democratic presidential candidate.
11. We wouldn’t see this supposed oil until 2030. Even then, Alaska is home to only 3% of the world’s oil. We need to focus more on alternative energy sources–wind, solar, nuclear (which you love).
12. Okay, this “no question” thing isn’t fair. Please tell me how policemen, firemen, and teachers are strongly tied to the selfless major corporations.
13. American teachers are paid less than some of the most menial government jobs. Instead of providing vouchers for kids to go to St. Christ School for Christ, we should be providing better benefits for teachers (and students) and focus on reducing class sizes nationwide.
14. Countless Americans are born at an incredible disadvantage with no clear path to reaching middle class status. Giving tax breaks to the wealthiest and trusting them to do the right thing for those less fortunate isn’t my idea of a democracy. If John McCain has to sell one of his seven houses so my friends don’t have to live from paycheck to paycheck while balancing school and family, I’m not going to shed a tear.
15. I have no idea what you’re implying here.
16. Some people are just assholes. I didn’t know that I was supposed to think only poor people committed crimes. I thought I was allowed to understand that even our executive leaders can commit despicable things.
17. You can check out the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center’s rundown on both candidates’ plans. Obama would only raise taxes on the top 1.1% of Americans and I already mentioned in #14 why this is a good idea.
18. Ha! I didn’t know we did that!
19. If you want to get rid of taxes, I think you’re living in the wrong kind of country. You may want to consider anarchy, in which case I’d suggest somewhere in Europe. Then again, some of them have universal health care, which you hate. Hmmmm.
20. Believing in a living, breathing Constitution is like believing in a living, breathing Bible. Some things just don’t work. I’m not sure if you’re suggesting we do away with the Supreme Court, so I won’t try to tell you how stupid that is. If you’re suggesting we propose more constitutional amendments, I’m with you all the way. Let’s start with legalizing marijuana.
Damn, twenty questions and not one of them asking why I love to kill babies.