The questions nobody will ask Sen. Clinton *or* Sen. Obama

[planetc]

We are now in the throes of the campaign as horse race. Millions of dollars are being spent to forward the candidacies of two Democrats and one Republican. From the mass media, we get irrelevant commentary, and pointless analysis, and endless polls, and we have wasted another year on this nonsense. The amounts of money being spent are obscene, and what the average taxpayer will get for his or her money grows fuzzier by the day.

The questions we ought to ask both Democratic candidates before we authorize one more credit card transaction, sign one more check, pick up one more phone to call our neighbors, are as follows:

Why didn't you challenge the Ohio electors after the 2004 election? Why did you make stirring speeches about the voting reforms we need, and decline to challenge the Ohio electors in 2004? Have you read Rep. John Conyers' "What Went Wrong in Ohio", which was available on his website before you declined to challenge the Ohio electors?

Are you comfortable with your tax dollars being used to pay torturers? Do you feel the pain of Americans who are morally nauseated by their tax dollars being used to pay torturers?

Greenland is melting, the Antarctic ice sheet is melting, and weather is getting more violent every day. If you accept that carbon emissions have something to do with this, and that oil is peaking, or will soon, and that the American thirst for oil has produced an insane foreign policy, what are your plans for reducing our thirst for oil, and saving our foreign policy, if not the planet?

What exactly is your position on whether Pres. Bush, Vice Pres. Cheney, and numerous other members of the Bush administration are impeachable? If you find them to be impeachable, why have you not done so?

The American Air Force failed utterly to protect this country from the attacks of 9/11/01. Do you have the slightest curiosity as to why they failed so completely? Do you have the slightest curiosity as to why the 9/11 Commission conducted such a surgically limited inquiry into that and many other crucial questions? Do you believe that anyone who is curious to know the answers to those questions is a tinfoil hat wearing nut?

Do you know who Don Siegelman is? If Mr. Siegelman is a political prisoner in this country, do you feel any personal responsibility at all for that fact, since if the Bush administration had been removed from power at an early date, Mr. Siegelman might be a free man today?

Do you feel any personal responsibility for the prisoners now being held at Guantanamo Bay? If not, why not? You are surely funding that prison along with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the contracts being executed by Halliburton and other probable war profiteers. You are using taxpayer money to fund all these follies. Do you have a sense of how hard the average tax payer in this country works to be able to pay taxes, and how horrified they would be to know how those dollars are being spent?

If you have been derelict in you duties as Senators, why should I vote for you for president?

These are some, but not all of the questions I would like to ask both candidates. Perhaps you have some of your own?

[stop the bleeding]

1. "If you find them to be impeachable, why have you not done so?"

I think that if they wanted to start impeachment proceedings they would have to leave the Senate and get elected to the House.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. They could at least have shown support for people in the House who are interested in impeachment of

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[stop the bleeding]

3. agreed even though it would only be verbal it would have still been a lot

thanks GPV for the clarity

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Just my take on what the OP might have meant. :^)

[redstate_democrat]

5. You know

these are very good questions and a year ago, most Democrats would be demanding answers. I think we're at a point to where the Bush/Cheney years have been so bad, we'll basically take anything right now. Bush/Cheney's reign has made even the most centrist to conservative Democrat look like Kucinich.

I would like to know how it is possible that the most impeachable president/vice president in history has been allowed to remain in office this long. Democrats in Congress have been complicit in this thuggery and in my opinion, the defeatist attitude "we don't have the numbers, etc" isn't good enough. If the shoe had been on the other foot, the Repugs would have tied up Congress for years investigating every single red flag.