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FlyingSquirrel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 09:30 PM
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Edwards & Kucinich have answered all 10 questions. Obama has answered 7.
Edited on Sun Jan-06-08 09:38 PM by FlyingSquirrel
Even Gravel has weighed in on all 10 questions. Where are Clinton & Richardson?

http://www.10questions.com/

1. Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to reinstate Net Neutrality as the law of the land, and would you pledge to ONLY appoint FCC commissioners that support open internet principles like Net Neutrality?

2. As president, will you practice your religion WITHOUT imposing it on the American people as our current Republican president has, or is America unofficially a theocracy?

3. Do you think the Federal Government's position should change to reflect the opinion of American voters (regarding medical marijuana) and do you think it's appropriate for the Federal Government to interfere with state laws in this way?

4. As president, what will you do to keep me and my future children free from warrantless searches (and wiretapping)?

5. Would you support a fair and clean election system that takes big money out of politics, that provides public money for candidates who agree to spending limits and give up all special interest money? Because we want elections to be about us, the voters.

6. Why won't you pledge to abolish corporate personhood, so we can relegate corporations to serving the public good as they were originally intended instead of letting them control us? (Not answered by Obama)

7. I would like to know what you would do as the President of the United States to share information more effectively and to increase access in the White House to both the media and the people of the United States; and I would also like to know what you're doing in your campaign right now to increase transparency and trust?

8. Do you think that our voting system is broken? If elected President, what are you going to do about that on the first day in office, and thirdly, do you think we should revisit the decision made in 1845 to make the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, official election day here in the United States?

(Ed. note: For more info, check out http://whytuesday.org/ "Fixing our voting system, one question at a time." It's an interesting question - why not do it on a day that most Americans have off and can more easily participate?)

9. How much would you pledge to reduce the size of Government in your first term as President? (Not answered by Obama)

10. How do you defend the existence of this undocumented, unconstitutional two-party system, and please don't answer that it works because it doesn't work and the people are disgusted with your antics. (Not answered by Obama)

NOTE: Only Huckabee on the Republican side has answered any of these questions. He also skipped the "size of Government" question.

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Shameless plug for my candidate:

"We should note that John Edwards captured six of the top ten favorite responses, making his responses the most popular in Round Two; according to these ratings, he answered the questions more reliably than the other candidates."

http://techpresident.com/blog/entry/18181/10questions_com_complete_and_a_success
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 09:45 PM
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1. It's an interesting site..
fwiw, He didn't really answer the question about Corporate Personhood. . But I think sooner or later it will have to be dealt with, and Edwards is certainly more likely to than anyone else up there to address the issue sometime down the road.
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waiting for hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 09:48 PM
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2. Off to the GP with thee -
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Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 09:55 PM
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3. Great idea for a site
I like that the responses were in the form of direct answers to the questions. I wish the Obama campaign would replace his responses with direct responses as well. Sad that NONE of the repukes other than Huckabee were willing to take part. They simply DON'T get it.
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Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 10:00 PM
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4. A correction on my own post (Obama)
His response to #8 IS a direct response.
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FlyingSquirrel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 10:30 PM
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5. Just want to make one thing clear by the way...
Edited on Sun Jan-06-08 10:31 PM by FlyingSquirrel
I hope this does not get misconstrued as an attack on any of the Dems still running - I was impressed with Obama's answers as well and feel that the fact that he used videos from actual campaign stops to do so does not detract from the strength of his answers. I would really hope that if the Clinton & Richardson campaigns are for some reason not able to fit it into their schedules to have their candidates directly answer these questions, that they could do the same as Obama did and find clips from the campaign trail that would address them.
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