Thursday, July 19, 2012
Saddleback II: What Questions Would You Ask?
Over at Creative Minority Report, Matt Archibold posts (here) that a Saddleback Church Forum for the presidential candidates is in the works for later this year (See the Church Report here). Archibold recalls the first Saddleback Forum in 2008 when Pastor Rick Warren asked then Senator Barack Obama “When does a baby get human rights?” and Obama’s painful answer – an answer, I should add, in which Obama construed a legal question as one that is either scientific or theological . . . and unanswerable. Or as Obama memorably put it “Above my pay grade.”
Warren says that the plans are still in the works for this year’s forum with no firm commitments, and Archibold expresses some doubt as to whether the President will actually attend. Mitt Romney would, I think, want to participate in the event, but would face challenges all his own.
Assuming that the forum does take place, what questions would MOJ readers like to see posed to candidates Romney and Obama? Comments open.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2012/07/saddleback-ii-what-questions-would-you-ask.html
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One I would like to ask:
One of you supported a health care plan at a state level that, years later, has not produced more coverage of the poor and needy, despite that justification being used for its passage. The other supported a very similar program at a national level with a similar justification, despite the fact that the program targets all people, and not just those without healthcare. Mr. Romney, you have sought support for repeal of healthcare at a national level. How would you re-create the program to support the uninsured, if at all, and if you would not have such a program nationally, why? Pres. Obama, if it turns out that the national program, like the Massachusetts program, does no better job at ensuring that the most needy have insurance, would you support its repeal and replacement with a different solution?