If last week’s presidential debate left you with more questions than answers, here’s your chance to ask the presidential candidates about the issues that most matter to you.
The next presidential debate will be a town hall meeting format at Hofstra University in Long Island, where voters will ask President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney about domestic and foreign policy.
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2) Four years ago, you stated that if you couldn't get unemployment down, you'd "deserve" to be a one-term President. Why should you be re-elected, in light of the fact that there are 5 million fewer employed people now than when you were inaugurated? 3) You stated that if we borrowed and spent over $1 Trillion, unemployment would be less than 7%. Why do you think that borrowing and spending even more money will have a beneficial effect in the next 4 years? 4) Four years ago, you promised that energy prices, under your energy plan would "necessarily skyrocket." Now that gas prices are double what they were when you started, how do you explain your accomplishment to the American people? 5) You promised to remove unnecessary regulations. The number of Federal regulations has more than doubled. Why? 6) Four years ago, you promised to close Guantamano Bay. It's still open. Why? 7) Under what authority do you execute American citizens overseas with no trial? 8) Under what authority did you bomb Libya?
10) You state that "millionaires and billionaires" who make over $250,000/year should pay at least 30% of their income in taxes. You paid 25% of your income in taxes. Why didn't you cut the IRS an additional check to get up to the tax rate you favor? 11) Under what authority are you able to force Catholic churches and other religious organizations to fund medical procedures they abhor due to their faiths? 12) What do you say to the 25%++ of recent college graduates who don't have a job when you promote "college education for all"? 13) Why is a reduction in the future rate of growth for Medicare under your health care plan not a cut in spending according to you, but any rollback in the growth of other government spending plans is? 14) Why does your campaign donation website not track the origins of the credit cards used to fund your campaign? 15) After our Libyan ambassador was murdered in a pre-planned terrorist attack, do you think it was the right course of action for you to go to sleep 90 minutes later, and then fly to Las Vegas for a campaign fundraiser? 16) Why did your administration lie about the attacks on our embassy, stating it was due to a video that was shot months earlier and only posted on YouTube?
18) Your daughters enjoy going to school at the Sidwell Friends' Academy, a $33,000+/year school. You signed into a law the elimination of Washington, DC's school voucher program, which provides $8,000 (grade school) and $12,000 (high school) per student to attend a school of the parents' choice. Students in the voucher program graduate at rates over 90%, compared to barely 50% in the public schools. Why did you deny poor, mostly black children the opportunity your children have? Especially in light of a 3.5% increase in the Department of Education's overall budget? 19) Four years ago, you promised to "radically transform" America, but you never stated into what. What, exactly is your goal, and have you accomplished it? If not, what more is there to do? What country is your role model for what America "should be"? 20) Given the world-wide failures of "social democracy" in Europe and elsewhere, the actuarial insolvency of Medicare and Social Security, and the inability of the economy to support that spending (even if we were to confiscate all income over $250,000/year), how do you propose to maintain those programs?
22) Why has your Justice Department conducted more "medical marijuana" raids than the previous administration, especially in light of many more states legalizing it?
With election season upon us, most people are buckling down and trying to choose between voting for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. But some people march to the beat of a different drummer -- some people are still undecided. And those people don't want to be left out of the campaign ad circuit just because they're not committed to a candidate yet. They have concerns too, man! So "Saturday Night Live" took the initiative to give America's undecided voters a commercial of their own this week, and it came out pretty well. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/23/undecided-voters-saturday-night-live-video_n_1907145.html
1. Mr. President, are you comfortable? Can we get you anything? 2. Mr. President, isn't it true that all of the country's problems are the House GOP's fault? And Bush's fault for putting us in this "mess" 3. Mr. President, what do you think of the Chicago Bears season so far? Would you start the Bears DST in your fantasy league over Baltimore DST? 4. Mr. President, we all know that the college BCS system is a problem. What can you do to ensure all top NCAA football teams get "a fair shot"? 5. Mr. President, what is your favorite beer? 6. Mr. President, isn't it true that it was your intervention that got the NFL and its referees to agree to new contract? Do you think those replacement refs were as bad as Romney would be as President?
I first misread the image and wondered why the donkey seemed to be sniffing the elephant's rear end. Guess that's a trunk, not a tail.
As you are probably aware, any presidency that has been re-elected to a second term has gone through a scandal. What can we expect for a "Second Term Scandal" if your presidency is re-elected for a second term? Governor Romney, How has the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling by the Supreme Court benefited you, sir?
Is it acceptable for the EPA or other unelected boards or czars to create regulations that have the affect of law w/o the consent of Congress? If so, how can the people redress these regulations?
The republicans have forced the postal service to prefund 75 years of future retiree benefits in the span of 10 years, yet the republican agenda states that you want to privatize the post office. Why do we have to prefund something that you plan on getting rid of? What will you do to rectify this situation and save the postal service?
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.) now explain what you think it means.
24) Are you proud of the way you passed ObamaCare, the only massive entitlement to pass entirely on a partisan vote? Is this part of your promise to "bring the country together" and work with everyone in Washington? 25) How *does* ObamaCare reduce the budget deficit as you claim if it counts 7 years of expenses but 10 years of tax revenues to offset them? 26) Going back to what country the USA "should" emulate to fulfill your promise to fundamentally transform the nation--if there is no country you can think of, is there a US state that provides a more perfect model for the nation? Is it Illinois? New York? California?
Another question for Romney: Mr Romney, you said that if elected the first thing you would do is eliminate Obamacare and replace it with a better health care law. How would it be better, and would it include allowing insurance companys to deny insurance to those with pre existing conditions or to charge more for insuring them?
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