Ask McCain about Czechoslovakia, eh?

Ask MCain about the difference between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims, eh?

Ask McCain which sect is in al Qaeda, eh?

Ask McCain why he and the Bushies were completely surprised when the Russkies invaded Georgia, which they claim to support, eh? Where was our vaunted post-9/11 intelligence community, and has anyone been fired because they didn’t see it or make the call? Like Condi Rice, our Cold Warrior expert Secretary of State?

McCain’s speeches consist of a noun, averb, and “POW” and he claims foreign policy expertise, based upon what?

McCain is STILL too ignorant to be President!

http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/08/04/15-reasons-john-mccain-is-too-ignorant-to-be-president/

You could have asked more intelligent questions of all the candidates and not in the negative way you did, I only personall y know one candidate and if you had written a letter to her, would have have gotten a reply.

I really don’t understand the purpose of your editorial.

These are good questions for all the candidates although the list is certainly not exhaustive. I hope to hear the answers them during the rest of the campaign now that the convention posturing is out of the way (I hope). In some cases, I don’t think that the candidate will be willing to answer honestly for what are probably politically valid reasons.

For instance I would assume that Joe Biden supported the Bankruptcy Act you note above because much of the credit card industry is headquartered in his state and provides a disproportionate share of jobs to his constituents. However, I don’t expect he will defend himself by bluntly stating that it would have been political suicide for him to do otherwise.

I thought everything you question is fair. However, I’ll start w/ McCain - none of it matters because it’s a democrat-controlled Congress - he won’t get anything done that he wants except possibly drilling under duress if the Dems don’t cave before Nov. Does anyone recall what happened to Bush’s promise to fix social security? Shot down by the Dems.

Does anyone remember Clinton promising tax cuts for the middle class and when he got in office said, too bad, we can’t afford them. Hillary has promised all sorts of jobs to up state NY’rs and they have sustained enormous job losses there due to high taxes. Someone should hold her feet to the fire.

As for Biden, why have you still not mentioned the earmarks he and Obama have secured for his son Hunter as well as he was a lobbyist for the credit card company. Biden is in this for self-enrichment and I would rather have a guy like McCain who doesn’t need to enrich his bank account and can’t be bought like the Biden family. Does anyone recall the Clintons?

Why don’t you ask Biden about his 5 draft deferments during the height of the Vietnam War. This was a very important question during the 2000 and 2004 election for VP. And yes, Biden, unlike Cheney, voted for the Iraq War.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/one_unlikely_vp_debate_questio.html

Why don’t we ask Obama about Percy Sutton and Dr. Khalid al-Monsour?
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=305508174916939

Or how about how about Nadhmi Auchi?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2035927/posts

Or I’d like to know Obama’s position on China’s cheap goods poring into our country since his brother George is a cheap goods exporter in China.

How much influence did Frank Marshall Davis have over him and what was their real relationship?
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/

McCain’s proposal to tax health insurance would be DOA and I will give you four letters why: AARP. Insurance costs more the older you get, so the tax burden would be on older workers. The guy who figures out why healthcare costs go up so much faster than everything else can then get to work on why colleges can’t figure out how to control their costs.

jjk–it is irrelevant whether or not a particular proposal would be “DOA” since what is interesting is how and why McCain thinks that this is the way to address an ailing healthcare system. I would like to hear him defend this seriously, without slogans, but with reference to the facts and figures as well as to what we know by looking at successful healthcare systems in Europe and Asia. I want to know how a man who might be president thinks about the issues and how fully he grasps the issues.

As an older American, I find it very interesting that politicians think they can balance the healthcare deficit on the backs of workers over 50 and the sick, who would be the ones who would be taxed the most as their coverage costs their employers the most, if they can even get it. I still maintain that someday, there will be Socialized system enacted with the option for a private system to co-exist at the taxpayer’s expense. This is how it works in all those European systems you seem to love. I’ve done business over there and I can tell you, they don’t work very well. 40% of the UK is enrolled in a private system without which, the NHS could not survive. You can call it what you want, private pay, whatever, either way it is a new tax. That’s how I think it will end up someday. I don’t favor it, but eventually, the libs will get their way. When it happens, you will see a true two class system emerge and you won’t like that, either.