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This is a strange post in that it has 50 comments attached to it already. These are 50 questions for Bush and Kerry selected by non-Slashdot moderators, as explained in our original call for help with the New Voters Project Presidential Youth Debate. At this point, where you come in is not only with extra-insightful moderation of these 50 questions, but with your "many eyes" trying to spot questions these two candidates have answered elsewhere so that the final questions presented to them are not repeats. The first 40 questions are from potential voters aged 18 - 35. The last 10 are from future voters 13 - 17. And that's enough explanation. From here we might as well jump right into the questions...
With all that's going on in the world with terrorism, US-lead wars on multiple fronts, potential nuclear weapons in North Korea, and major civil rights violations in the US, I can't imagine why anyone would want to waste time in a presidential debate talking about home schooling.
I thought sex caused pregnancy.
I guess it's caused by the lack of "sex education in the classroom" and "resources (information, condoms, etc.)". Who knew?
Who cares? Honestly, the implications of a policy decision on this are small and should be left to education policy experts. Let's not force Kerry and Bush to be education PhD's. Seems like a waste of a question when we can worry about larger issues.
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
Being that you are both corporate whores, could you just post your rates?
That way, moveon would know how much money just to leave in a little brown bag, instead of trying to buy ad time, and maybe we can implement a bidding system, as I think that the Dems are getting underpaid for their efforts.
After all, Fritz Hollings only needed $250,000 to convince him to promote legislation by Disney to lock up hardcore terrorists who would (gasp!) copy movies.
With Cheney pulling down $2 million from Halliburton to win all those no-bid contracts, it shows that the parties maybe need more "bilateral commissions" to help design a minimum rate sheet.
Oh yeah, reinstuting the draft would be your last mistake - whoever might win. You don't want to piss off the slashdot crowd with a "special skills draft" for the technical elite. Not if you like little things like the Internet working.
I cannot believe someone actually modded this post up.
1) Good feminists have abortions?! WTF is that supposed to mean? I mean, by this line of reasoning "Good men" should cut their balls off to avoid the inconvenience of impregnating anyone, and I certainly don't see you advocating that. Especially since congress has passed legislation to outlaw one of the safest forms of abortion, and for many women the procedure isn't even performed in their state, it's not an option available to even the most "good" of women.
2) Desire not to work? Are you kidding me? I personally have to work harder at my job and at my schoolwork for anyone to take me seriously because of my gender, and I STILL get paid less. It's not a merit system that is enforcing that statistic, it's sexism. I don't want a family, I want a career, and I have to face every day the fact that my hard work will be marginalized because I don't have a penis like you do, and I'll get paid less for it. And it's certainly isn't because I don't want to work.
3) Yes, I do agree that we shouldn't be encouraging more over population of the world, but if you were really concerned about this issue, you'd be much more worried about the Bush administration's funding cuts to Family Planning abroad to any organization that even mentions abortion as an option, regardless of the other services that they provide, instead of attacking women who have responsibly planned families they can support. (It takes two to tango, why aren't you going out and berating their men for forcing you to hire a temp?)
4) You know, equal opportunity laws were enacted to protect women and minorities against those exact values. I guess it's good to know that I'm right when I feel like I'm getting hosed because of my gender.
5) We spend TONS of money on this. Are you kidding me? You, as a small business owner have already bitched in this post about spending money on this topic.
6) Women DO want equality. Heck yeah, I want to been seen as an equal in the workplace, and it's people like you that are holding us back. I don't think anyone would be opposed to men being offered the same right to a leave of absence for the birth of a child as women are afforded. But, as a small business owner, would you really be willing to shell out for paid paternity leave for all of those good young men you hired in place of women?
You are totally wrong. I understand your anxiety on this issue as the dude with the pocketbook, but if those are truly your beliefs, you are fretting about the wrong issues. Paternity leave? HA! Support abortion, support family planning abroad.
...and will your administration continue with an American policy that is strongly slanted to be pro-Israeli/anti-Palistinian? And if so, how will this improve our reputation with regards the perception held by a large percentage of people in the middle east and the third world?