2. You say you don't believe global warming is man-made. Could you tell us what scientists you've spoken with or read who have led you to that conclusion? What do you think the 2,500 scientists of the Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change are getting wrong?
3. If you didn't try to fire Wasilla librarian Mary Ellen Baker over her refusal to consider censoring books, why did you try to fire her?
4. What is the European Union, and how does it function?
5. Forty-seven million Americans lack health care insurance. John Goodman, who has advised McCain on healthcare, has proposed redefining them as covered because, he says, anyone can get care at an ER. Do you agree with him?
6. What is the function of the Federal Reserve?
7. Cindy and John McCain say you have experience in foreign affairs because Alaska is next to Russia. When did you last speak with Prime Minister Putin, and what did you talk about?
8. Approximately how old is the Earth? Five thousand years? 10,000? 5 billion?
9. You are a big fan of President Bush, so why didn't you mention him even once in your convention speech?
10. McCain says cutting earmarks and waste will make up for revenues lost by making the tax cuts permanent. Experts say that won't wash. Balancing the Bush tax cuts plus new ones proposed by McCain would most likely mean cutting Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. Which would you cut?
11. You're suing the federal government to have polar bears removed from the endangered species list, even as Alaska's northern coastal ice is melting and falling into the sea. Can you explain the science behind your decision?
12. You've suggested that God approves of the Iraq War and the Alaska pipeline. How do you know?
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I think this post is by-and-large mean spirited. The first question is obviously way over the line. I know there is somewhat of a precedent because of the Dukakis debacle,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF9gSyku-fc
but Bernard Shaw should be ashamed of himself for asking that question and I would hope this kind of hypothetical garbage never emerges in politics again. Asking the question about a child is even more dishonorable than asking it about Kitty Dukakis.
I like the question about the Iraq War and a mission from god, but Gibson already asked this. She said she was quoting Lincoln.
I'd rather see her debate Al Gore on warming, I've seen politicians side-step scientific consensus before and it just makes me mad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npimo1QK-4k
I would like to see her asked how old she thinks the earth is.
As a progressive, my initial reaction was that someone should really ask these questions. That is, with the exception of the first question. I agree that it is mean-spirited. I also think Palin would give a religious rationale, or simply dismiss the question as over-the-line. Either way, the questioner would look worse than Palin.
I also think many of these questions are "gotchas." I think the important questions here are 5 and 10. Numbers 2 and 11 are important to progressives (like me), but I'm afraid the general public does not see them as urgent concerns.
I should add that I think Palin might benefit from this type of interview. What's better for a conservative than "battling the liberal media?"
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