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YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DEBATE ANSWERED HERE
I have some questions to ask about this last debate, if anyone can answer them.
First, on the question of whether or not the candidates would consider appointing someone to the Supreme Court who disagreed with them on issues, such as Roe v. Wade, did McCain say that in making appointments he would not use a litmus [test] of whether or not they agreed with him, but would instead make appointments based on qualifications, and then after clarification state that no one he feels is qualified would have a different opinion than him on the issue of Roe v. Wade? So, is this not a litmus test for him to measure qualification?
Next, did McCain actually refer to the assassination of JFK as “the intervention?” This really concerns me considering the recent instigations of violence by the republican candidates and the prejudice and hate language that the republican candidates have used toward persons from the Middle East and those of the Muslim (all of which are not fundamentalist) religion. Even though Obama is neither of this origin nor of this religion, their intention is to try and associate him with both, thus inciting violent hatred toward him. Aside from the fact that it is no more acceptable to incite prejudice and hatred toward Muslims and other Middle Eastern individuals than it would be toward African Americans, they are doing this and attempting to get radicals to believe that Obama is one or the other, or both, but they are really putting many people who are of this origin and religion in extreme danger. Are they perhaps suggesting to the radicals who attend their rallies that an assassination would be an "intervention"?
Next, did McCain say that his solution for the problem of education is to give Washington D.C. residents an advantage over the rest of the nation by increasing the number of them who receive vouchers, while leaving some Washington residents who can’t afford the difference in tuition cost even with a voucher to suffer through public schools along with all the other states in the country, schools that he then intends to fill with uncertified, and thus possibly unqualified pseudo teachers?
Finally, is Joe the plumber the same Joe Wurzelbacher from Ohio who already owns a plumbing business, and a construction business, and JCC Investments (the company listed at the same address as the plumbing and construction businesses that has an income of 2.5 million dollars a year?)
These are the questions that are keeping me up tonight, I think that I surely must have misheard some of this, because these crazy dystopian ideals could not possibly be coming from a candidate for president of the country that leads the free world.
Comment Posted By Spring On 16.10.2008 @ 02:33
