| Should Kerry answer these questions? |
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Republican_Man
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 Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:10 pm 20 Questions For Kerry |
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My Grandpa told me about a caller on the SAVAGE NATION radio show tonight, and it was all about 20 Questions that Kerry won't answer. Here they are, and they are GREAT!
| Quote: | Senator Kerry has been pretty successfully avoiding the media, but sometime
between now and November 2 he'll have to sit down for a far-ranging
interview on a program other than The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Thus
far, most Kerry interviews have been less-than-penetrating (one recent poll
even indicates that nearly a third of the electorate knows very little
about John Kerry) and certainly not hostile (in comparison, see, among
other things, President Bush's press conference of last spring). Bill
Clinton was subjected to far-greater scrutiny by this time in the 1992
election cycle. Kerry's legendary policy flip-flops as well as his
campaign's shifting stories related to the current controversy compel
questioning at least as tough as that directed at Kerry's critics.
Here are only a few of the questions Kerry hasn't adequately addressed.
They don't even have anything to do with swift boats. There are no "gotcha"
questions. They're posed in a respectful manner. In fact, many are
softballs. After all, few interviewers would wish to alienate Kerry and
foreclose the possibility of follow-up interviews. With that in mind, here
goes:
1. The Bush campaign maintains that you spent 20 years in the Senate with
no signature legislative achievements. What do you consider to be the five
most important pieces of legislation that you've authored?
a. What's the most important piece of legislation regarding intelligence
you've authored?
b. What's the most important piece of antiterrorism legislation you've
authored?
c. What's the most important piece of health-care legislation you've
authored?
d. What's the most important piece of education legislation you've
authored?
2. You'd agree that on paper, Dick Cheney's experience and qualifications
dwarf those of your running mate. Why would John Edwards make a better
president during the war on terror than Dick Cheney?
a. It's been widely reported that John McCain was your first choice as
running mate. If true, why did you prefer Senator McCain to Senator
Edwards?
3. Earlier this year you told Tim Russert that you'd release all of your
military records, yet you've failed to do so and you refuse to release your
Vietnam journal. Why shouldn't the public infer that the contents of these
documents would undermine your credibility or otherwise damage your
candidacy?
a. When will you release the documents?
4. You've stated that you believe that life begins at conception yet you
voted against the ban on partial-birth abortions. At precisely what point
is a life worth protecting?
a. Is there any limitation on abortion (waiting periods, parental
notification) for which you'd vote? If so, what?
5. You've promised to repeal much of the Bush tax cut and while in the
Senate you voted to raise taxes an average of five times per year. If
current economic trends remain largely unchanged during a Kerry presidency,
would you seek additional tax increases?
a. How would you raise taxes and what are the highest marginal tax rates
that you'd support?
6. You opposed the 1991 Gulf War even though Saddam Hussein had weapons of
mass destruction, had invaded another country, and France and Germany had
supported the war. In the current conflict no WMDs have been found, France
and Germany oppose the action, and Saddam hadn't invaded another country.
Yet you recently stated that knowing what you know now, you'd nonetheless
authorize the use of force even though you voted against funding it.
Could you please reconcile these positions?
7. You acknowledge meeting with representatives of North Vietnam and the
Viet Cong in Paris in 1970. Afterward you urged Congress to accept the
North Vietnamese proposals. Please explain how this wasn't a violation of
the Logan Act and, if you were still in the Naval Reserves at that time,
how it wasn't a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice
prohibiting unauthorized communications with the enemy.
8. In several speeches before black audiences you've stated that a million
African Americans were disenfranchised and had their votes stolen in the
2000 presidential election. There are no official or media investigations
that support that statement. What evidence do you have to support the
statement and if you believe a million blacks had their votes stolen, why
haven't you called for criminal prosecutions and congressional
investigations?
9. Do you dispute the National Journal's assessment that you're the
nation's most liberal senator? If you do, which senators do you consider to
be more liberal and why?
10. Why did you propose cutting the intelligence budget by $6 billion in
1994?
11. As president, would you nominate anyone to be either an attorney
general, FBI director, or CIA director who had been a leader and chief
spokesman for a group that had discussed and voted upon a plan to
assassinate U.S. senators (even if the proposed nominee had opposed such
plan)?
12. You have consistently stated that you "never, never" attended the
November 1971 Kansas City meeting of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War
at which a plan to assassinate six pro-military U.S. senators was
discussed. Several newspapers reported that when confronted with FBI
surveillance reports, your campaign "all but conceded" that you were in
attendance , but claimed that this was a mere "footnote in history."
a. Were you there?
b. Did you discuss the assassination of U.S. senators? What did you say?
c. Did you vote upon such a plan? How did you vote? Were any similar plans
discussed by your group at any time? What were they?
d. If the plan was voted down, what steps did you take to insure that
supporters of the plan didn't carry it out anyway?
e. Especially considering that this took place in an era of political
assassinations and assassination attempts (Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther
King Jr., George Wallace, etc.), did you report the discussion to any
law-enforcement authorities? If not, why not?
f. When did you resign from the organization?
g. Do you dispute reports that you continued as a spokesman for the
organization for more than a year after the Kansas City meeting?
h. If this was a mere footnote in history why have you repeatedly and
vehemently denied you were there?
i. Did your campaign, as alleged in several newspaper accounts, attempt to
get a witness to change his story about your attendance?
13. You have criticized the Patriot Act. What portions would you repeal or
amend and why? What evidence do you have of any abuses of the Patriot Act?
14. As president, what would you do about Iran's emerging nuclear
capability?
15. During your eight-year tenure on the Senate Intelligence Committee you
missed more than three fourths of all public meetings. It's also been
reported that you have skipped or delayed receiving intelligence briefings
during the campaign. Why should the public believe that you're serious
about this issue?
16. What do you think is appropriate punishment for guards (and their
superiors) found guilty of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib? Do you believe
they should be stripped of command and receive dishonorable discharges and
prison time?
17. On May 6, 2001, on Meet the Press, you stated that you had committed
"the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers" in violation
of the Geneva Convention. Specifically, you said you burned villages and
"used 50-calibre machine guns, which [you] were granted and ordered to use,
which were our only weapon against people."
a. Who ordered you to use 50-caliber machine guns on people?
b. How many people did you shoot with the 50s and how many of them were
killed or wounded?
c. When and where did these shootings occur?
d. What other atrocities did you commit and when?
e. Which village(s) did you burn down and when?
f. Were any of your crewmembers present during the commission of any of
these atrocities?
g. Did you order them to participate in the atrocities? Did they follow
your orders?
h. Why were there no reports of these atrocities? Did you order your crew
not to report them?
i. Are any of these incidents described in your Vietnam journal? If not,
why not?
j. Did you observe thousands of (or any) other troops committing
atrocities? When, where and what kind? Did you report them? If not, why
not?
k. In light of your admitted atrocities, if Abu Ghraib guards found guilty
of abuse should receive prison time and be stripped of command, why do you
believe you should be considered for commander-in-chief?
18. Who among the justices currently sitting on the Supreme Court would be
a model for your nominees to the federal bench? Why?
19. In a speech before Drake University Law School you characterized U.S.
allies in the war in Iraq as "some trumped-up so-called Coalition of the
bribed, the coerced, the bought and the extorted,..." Do you maintain that
Great Britain has been bribed, coerced, bought, or extorted? What about
Italy? Japan? Poland? Please specifically identify those members of the
Coalition that have been either bribed, coerced, bought, and extorted and
the officials who were bribed or bought.
20. You told George Stephanopoulos that you had a plan to get out of Iraq
but refused to provide details. Would you consent to having your secret
plan privately evaluated by an independent, bi-partisan panel of military
experts who could report the plan's merits to the electorate without
divulging the details?
a. Would you also consent to privately revealing to an independent panel
the names of the foreign leaders who secretly support you so that the panel
can confirm your story to the electorate?
b. Ditto regarding the leaders whom you say have secretly told Senators
Biden and Levin that you must win?
Obviously, there are a lot more questions Social Security, health care,
etc. Certainly there are tougher questions and those more artfully crafted.
This is just a start. Feel free to add your own. TV-newsmagazine producers
are welcome to use any of the above.
Peter Kirsanow is...not holding his breath. |
So, shouldn't he answer them?
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Theres tons of questions Bush dodges too. Dont be one sided repub.
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| Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:29 pm |
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| Defiant wrote: | | Theres tons of questions Bush dodges too. Dont be one sided repub. |
What questions are they?
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some of the questions that you are asking kerry are very similar to the questions that bush is dodging as well. His military record for one thing.
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Hes not dodging them. Hes answered them only like 80000000000000 times.
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He wont answer if he condones swift vets for truth.
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I condone anyone for truth, 
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| gilbert3729 wrote: | | some of the questions that you are asking kerry are very similar to the questions that bush is dodging as well. His military record for one thing. |
That's not true. He hasn't dodged it.
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he should
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | gilbert3729 wrote: | | some of the questions that you are asking kerry are very similar to the questions that bush is dodging as well. His military record for one thing. |
That's not true. He hasn't dodged it. |
Then why hasnt he released his war records? And I dont mean that lie that he tried to release.
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| Defiant wrote: | | Republican_Man wrote: | | gilbert3729 wrote: | | some of the questions that you are asking kerry are very similar to the questions that bush is dodging as well. His military record for one thing. |
That's not true. He hasn't dodged it. |
Then why hasnt he released his war records? And I dont mean that lie that he tried to release. |
Bush actually has an agenda to talk about. All Kerry says that is for sure and that he has not flipped on is, "I did an awesome job in Nam, and I will make botox injections affordable for all Americans!(followed by cheering from tired looking people)" AND NOBODY SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT CLINTON DODGING THE DRAFT!!!  The democrats just want to get into office anyway they can and I think they're getting desperate.
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| Lt.CmdrWorf wrote: | | Defiant wrote: | | Republican_Man wrote: | | gilbert3729 wrote: | | some of the questions that you are asking kerry are very similar to the questions that bush is dodging as well. His military record for one thing. |
That's not true. He hasn't dodged it. |
Then why hasnt he released his war records? And I dont mean that lie that he tried to release. |
Bush actually has an agenda to talk about. All Kerry says that is for sure and that he has not flipped on is, "I did an awesome job in Nam, and I will make botox injections affordable for all Americans!(followed by cheering from tired looking people)" AND NOBODY SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT CLINTON DODGING THE DRAFT!!! The democrats just want to get into office anyway they can and I think they're getting desperate. |
Yah, those points arent valid. You dont know what youre talking about...
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LOL! Not valid? CNN, Fox News, C-SPAN, etc... Check them out.
Mark, I'm seriously thinking of asking you not to post in WN until you choose to take things more seriously.
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| Lt.CmdrWorf wrote: | | The democrats just want to get into office anyway they can and I think they're getting desperate. |
Come on now.
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Your statement discredited his entire post. Not that one line. And besides, it's accurate. That's what totally partisan people do. I can't stand them. I'm registered Republican, but I wouldn't hesitate to vote for a Democrat if he were the better candidate.
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| Defiant wrote: | | Lt.CmdrWorf wrote: | | Defiant wrote: | | Republican_Man wrote: | | gilbert3729 wrote: | | some of the questions that you are asking kerry are very similar to the questions that bush is dodging as well. His military record for one thing. |
That's not true. He hasn't dodged it. |
Then why hasnt he released his war records? And I dont mean that lie that he tried to release. |
Bush actually has an agenda to talk about. All Kerry says that is for sure and that he has not flipped on is, "I did an awesome job in Nam, and I will make botox injections affordable for all Americans!(followed by cheering from tired looking people)" AND NOBODY SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT CLINTON DODGING THE DRAFT!!! The democrats just want to get into office anyway they can and I think they're getting desperate. |
Yah, those points arent valid. You dont know what youre talking about... |
That made no sense 
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| Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:01 am |
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| Defiant wrote: | | Republican_Man wrote: | | gilbert3729 wrote: | | some of the questions that you are asking kerry are very similar to the questions that bush is dodging as well. His military record for one thing. |
That's not true. He hasn't dodged it. |
Then why hasnt he released his war records? And I dont mean that lie that he tried to release. |
He released many of them, and then should Kerry release EVERYTHING that he SAID he would release, then?
| Lt.CmdrWorf wrote: | | Defiant wrote: | | Republican_Man wrote: | | gilbert3729 wrote: | | some of the questions that you are asking kerry are very similar to the questions that bush is dodging as well. His military record for one thing. |
That's not true. He hasn't dodged it. |
Then why hasnt he released his war records? And I dont mean that lie that he tried to release. |
Bush actually has an agenda to talk about. All Kerry says that is for sure and that he has not flipped on is, "I did an awesome job in Nam, and I will make botox injections affordable for all Americans!(followed by cheering from tired looking people)" AND NOBODY SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT CLINTON DODGING THE DRAFT!!! The democrats just want to get into office anyway they can and I think they're getting desperate. |
1. Bush DOES have an agenda to talk about, yes.
2. Kerry can NOT talk about his TWENTY YEAR RECORD IN THE SENATE, so he has to bring up Vietnam
3. When Bush and Cheney say NOTHING about Vietnam in their speeches and Cheney says NOTHING about Kerry being "unfit for command" and Bush says that "Kerry's service was MORE HEROIC than his", and overall the Republicans try to move on but of course KERRY and the Democrats who said that we should drop it keep bringing it up--Kerry did it in his Midnight post-Convention speech. I mean, COME ON, MR. KERRY! Stop attacking Bush's military record and Cheney's military records when THEY ARE TRYING TO MOVE ON, and stop saying lies about then and STOP BRINGING UP VIETNAM WHEN YOU SAY YOU WANT THE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IT TO STOP! Or, we can have it your way and the Swift Boat Vets can run crazy without me and others condeming the first ad.
| Theresa wrote: | | LOL! Not valid? CNN, Fox News, C-SPAN, etc... Check them out. |
Yeah, but of course less CNN...
| Defiant wrote: | | Lt.CmdrWorf wrote: | | The democrats just want to get into office anyway they can and I think they're getting desperate. |
Come on now. |
"Come on now?" Can you not take the truth?
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Perhaps its the Republicans who are desperate to remain in office.
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| Captain Dappet wrote: | | Perhaps its the Republicans who are desperate to remain in office. |
In what way, then?
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| Captain Dappet wrote: | | Perhaps its the Republicans who are desperate to remain in office. |
Of course we are. Look who Bush's opponent is. We don't want him to ruin our country.
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| Founder wrote: | | Captain Dappet wrote: | | Perhaps its the Republicans who are desperate to remain in office. |
Of course we are. Look who Bush's opponent is. We don't want him to ruin our country. |
Well, no, we aren't desperate because we know that we will win.
And if we were as desperate as the Democrats, then we'd be down at their level right now.
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The entire post deserved discrediting! Where did talking about Clinton come from? Its entirely random, and doesnt have anything to do with the topic on hand.
The last statement was out of line. I hate when Repubs say things that are out of line, and no one cares.
And RM, Bush released the censored version, with tons of stuff blacked out. Why cant he be honest with us?
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| Defiant wrote: | The entire post deserved discrediting! Where did talking about Clinton come from? Its entirely random, and doesnt have anything to do with the topic on hand.
The last statement was out of line. I hate when Repubs say things that are out of line, and no one cares.
And RM, Bush released the censored version, with tons of stuff blacked out. Why cant he be honest with us? |
He's BEEN honest with us! And why doesn't Kerry release everything that he SAID he would release?
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| Defiant wrote: | The entire post deserved discrediting! Where did talking about Clinton come from? Its entirely random, and doesnt have anything to do with the topic on hand.
The last statement was out of line. I hate when Repubs say things that are out of line, and no one cares.
And RM, Bush released the censored version, with tons of stuff blacked out. Why cant he be honest with us? |
There is a definite corralation with Clinton. It's rather sad that you can't see it. It's only an issue when dems say so? Is that it? Clinton dodging the draft wasn't a big deal a few years ago. Now suddenly Bush allegedly skipping out on his National Guard service is a hot issue... If you can't see the duplicity...
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| Theresa wrote: | | Defiant wrote: | The entire post deserved discrediting! Where did talking about Clinton come from? Its entirely random, and doesnt have anything to do with the topic on hand.
The last statement was out of line. I hate when Repubs say things that are out of line, and no one cares.
And RM, Bush released the censored version, with tons of stuff blacked out. Why cant he be honest with us? |
There is a definite corralation with Clinton. It's rather sad that you can't see it. It's only an issue when dems say so? Is that it? Clinton dodging the draft wasn't a big deal a few years ago. Now suddenly Bush allegedly skipping out on his National Guard service is a hot issue... If you can't see the duplicity... |
EXACTLY. SUPERB Points. It should be a big deal when the Dems say so. That's it.
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