Had I been the moderator for the presidential debates, I would have asked the questions common-sense Americans want answered.
On education, I would have asked:
- Mr. Kerry, please tell America why it is President Bush’s fault that black children are failing in school at a disproportionate rate?
- Please explain clearly and succinctly why the president should be blamed, when many of these children are purposely failing and/or getting poor grades, so as not to be viewed by their peers as being like “whitey”?
- Please explain as thoroughly as you can why the president is to be blamed for underachieving students when the priority of both they and their parents is how far they can throw and how fast they can run?
- Mr. Kerry now that the door has been opened for children to go straight from high school to professional basketball, why is the president to be blamed if both the student and parents make jump shots a priority over biology?
On health care, I would have asked:
- Mr. Kerry you and your fellow Democrats make a big deal out of health care and the supposedly millions that are without it. In no way seeking to minimize said situation as a reality, can you tell America exactly how many people are without coverage by choice?
- How many (your moderator included) self-insure? How many have Medical Savings Accounts? How many are college-aged not working full-time, not going to college full-time and too old to be on their parent’s policies?
- Mr. Kerry you speak of the rising cost of health care. Will you please speak to the fact that Americans are living longer across the board than at any time in the past?
- Would you address the fact that inherent in rising costs is not only liability protection, but the fact that community underwritten products are adversely affected?
On the issue of foreign policy, specifically the war in Iraq, I would have asked the question that has eluded Kerry thus far:
- If the war on Iraq is “the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong place;” if President Bush has been a “dismal failure” as you say; if the president has failed to get U.N. approval; failed to form a coalition and turned our friends against us – why, Mr. Kerry, did you vote against the first Gulf War when, in fact, exactly what you are arguing is not the case today, was the case then?
- Mr. Kerry you say it was wrong to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein had not attacked us, had no weapons of mass destruction and posed no threat to America – yet you say it was right to attack the Taliban in Afghanistan. Please explain your reasoning, if you can, because according to page 30 of the 9-11 commission’s report, the Taliban did not attack us with WMDs; nor did Afghanistan have any.
- Then reconcile your recent statements with the fact that not only had Germany not attacked us when we declared war on them – we attacked them before we attacked the Japanese. We also declared war on Italy. Many would argue even though both countries had declared war against us, the chances of Hitler and Benito Mussolini making it to America to wage war was extremely remote. Were those wars also the “wrong wars at the wrong time and place”?
- And finally, I would inquire into Mr. Kerry’s record of service in the U.S. Senate. Gratuitously put, his record is barely marginal – factually it is abysmal. Based on said record of non-accomplishment, why would America entrust you with our safety and well-being?
I would also inquire of the president:
Your domestic record, in this conservative’s opinion, is disappointingly closer to that of a moderate, but it can stand up to Kerry’s – which leads me to ask: Why do you find it necessary to capitulate to the left, when America accepted you because we believed you would not?
And finally, Mr. President, at what point will you fight for the judicial nominees the way you fought for the Medicare reform bill? Or do you think judicial terrorism is something that will go away if it is ignored long enough?
