25 Questions For Obama

25 Critical Questions 

for ABC-NBC-CBS-NYT-

NPR-CNN-WASHPO-LAT ...

to ask Obama

President Obama's idea of speaking to the American people is to go on network talk shows, put on a big smile and basically say nothing. These are the questions America needs answered. 

The president has had four years to come up with answers ... 

What are your plans ... President Obama?

Hello Mainstream media. Thanks for coming. I invited you here to ask when is the last time any of you fearless pros asked the president as direct and challenging a question as these two hardballs he faced last week at Univision, the Spanish language network:

"I think up to 100 Mexicans might have died (in Operation Fast and Furious) and also American agent Brian Terry. There's a report that 14 agents were responsible for the operation, but shouldn't the attorney general, Eric Holder…have known about that and if he didn't, should you fire him?"

"You promised [immigration reform] and a promise is a promise. And with all due respect, you didn't keep that promise."

Those are some respectful zingers doing just what the press is supposed to: holding political leaders accountable for their words and actions. So, can you think of any tough question you’ve put to him lately? As in, sometime this term?

You don’t really want to look like lap dog sycophants, do you?  Good. Then here are a few suggestions:

Ask him if his policies toward the Middle East may have contributed to current violence there.

Specifically, did his decision to pressure Mubarak out of Egypt and to forcibly remove Qaddafi from Libya enable radical elements hostile to the US to rise to power?

Ask him if his overall approach to engaging the Muslim world has produced positive results.

Ask him why, after the attacks on Egyptian, Libyan, and other embassies, his administration immediately asserted the fiction they were spontaneous demonstrations of religious grievance at an obscure internet clip critical of Mohammed.

Ask why for over a week it denied there was a deliberate targeting of America by terrorist groups on the anniversary of September 11th.  Ask him if it’s true the State Department had warnings of likely attacks in the Middle East at least 48 hours before they occurred.

Ask him, with or without warnings, why are American embassies in some of the most dangerous places on earth essentially unguarded? Will secretary of State Clinton be held accountable for this failure to protect American personnel?

Speaking of Obama team players, will any of you professional skeptics ask Harry Reid if he plans to apologize to Mitt Romney for falsely accusing him of paying no taxes for 10 years? And if he doesn’t, then why not?

Will any of you ask the president how he can serve all Americans, as he pointedly told David Letterman is his job, if he doesn’t even know what the national debt is or what he has added to it?

When the president declares he “saved the auto industry,” will you ask him if he thinks Ford Motor Company and the American plants of Toyota, Honda, and Nissan aren’t also part of the American auto industry?

Ask him—if Chrysler and GM couldn’t pay their bills--what he thinks would have happened if bankruptcy law had been allowed to operate in a normal way?  Would Americans’ demand for cars have been less? Wouldn’t Chrysler’s and GM’s assets have been sold in an orderly way to leaner competitors or start up companies, who would have created new jobs and joined other suppliers to serve the American market?

Will you ask if it isn’t it more accurate to say he saved the ruinous pay, benefits, and pensions of the United Auto Workers that GM and Chrysler employed, and did it by lawlessly ripping equity out of the hands of secured creditors and bondholders and gifting it to the labor unions?

And, isn’t it true that the happy talk a while back about GM paying back its loans was highly misleading, as in essentially false? That wasn’t income from auto sales, was it, just federal stimulus grants that GM turned around and handed back to the government? And don’t taxpayers still hold a major chunk of GM ownership in billions of devalued stock? And isn’t the company’s survival still very much in doubt?

Will you ask him if this is really a success story, or likely a terribly costly, vote-buying boondoggle that just hasn’t played out yet?

Those are just a few starters. If you all think about it, there are a lot of fastballs you could throw over the left edge of the plate—if your peripheral vision reaches there.

Shawn Mitchell  Townhall .com    9/24/2012

And here are a few more questions Bob West would like to ask.

The Islamic Jihadist enemies are now rioting in over 25 locations throughout the Middle East. Isn’t this clear evidence that your policies in dealing with these radicals is a dismal failure?

Ask him why did you vote against the Keystone Pipeline when it is clear that thousands of good jobs would have been created and it clearly would help our neighbor and help get off of mid-east oil?

Ask why do you refuse to assist our border states in the closing of our borders?

And why have you sealed your college transcripts and your passport records?

Here is a zinger ... What did you mean when you told the Russian president, Medevev; “This is my last election, after my election I will have more flexibility” Does this mean you plan to force a hidden agenda on America? If not tell us now … what are your plans for us after the election that we do not know about?

We need to know this one. With 53% of college graduates  either unemployed or working at a job that doesn’t require a degree. How will America turn this economy around to provide real  private sector jobs for our graduates?

Now lets go where the rubber meets the road. Is it true that you believe America would be better off with $10 a gallon gas and at double our current energy costs? 
If not, what did you mean when you said with your plan, energy prices must necessarily skyrocket?

Cap and trade is your stated plan for energy. Since the majority of Americans don’t want cap and trade, why has your administration chosen to regulate it into existence?

And Why MR. President … when you said you would unite America, did you decide to force your healthcare plan down the throats of the more than 50% of Americans who do not want it?

Isn’t the printing of money a hidden tax on all Americans in the form higher prices for all goods and services? Doesn't this money printing harm and deceive the poor most of all?

You said no new taxes for the middle class and then you passed a number of taxes … why did you lie?

No more roads and bridges or shovel ready rhetoric. What is your plan to stimulate private sector jobs?

Since your plan to increase taxes on the rich will have basically no impact on the deficit. And the printing of 40 billion in phony money each month is suicidal … What is your real solution for the American economy?

Every hour in America two viable babies are aborted late term. Since these babies would live if delivered Cesarean or otherwise doesn’t it bother you that these babies are being murdered? What is your plan to defend the rights of these unborn citizens?

You said; “we are gonna punish our friends and reward our enemies” … How can you serve all Americans when you plan on punishing 50% of the nation because they do not agree with you?

There are so many more questions to ask Obama. Hopefully Romney will be ready. We certainly cannot rely on the mainstream media to be objective or do their job.