If you could ask the candidates 10Questions, what would they be?
What if you could ask any question to the presidential candidates? What if the candidates could answer at any time before the primaries with the caveat that you could mark their answer a WIN or FAIL?
This is what 10Questions.com is all about.

This is a project brought by the fine people behind Personal Democracy Forum and TechPresident. Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry have gathered an amazing a non-partisan brain trust of technopundits and geeky wonks for their politics and technology shing ding. Amazing people like Morra Aarons, Zephyr Teachout, Patrick Ruffini, David All, Spencer Overton, Ruby Sinreich, Michael Bassik are part of the gang. Am an occassional bomb thrower there as well.
Out of the group's conversations came out the idea of 10Questions.com, an experiment we believe is the first one in people-powered online democracy :
Unlike television debates, the 10Questions Presidential Forum makes full use of the web's potential to expand participation in politics. Everyone has an opportunity to ask a question, and to rally support for their question being in the top ten. The candidates have plenty of time to formulate their answers, and can post in-depth replies. Finally, the community will be able to grade the candidates' answers. With large numbers of people participating, the candidates will have an incentive to pay attention. Who knows, maybe we'll even change the course of the election!
The 10Questions Presidential Forum is being produced by techPresident in cooperation with The New York Times editorial board, with support from MSNBC.com and sponsorship from a large, cross-partisan group of bloggers, online media and organizations. (For a full list, go to our Sponsors page.) Participation as a co-sponsor of 10Questions in no way implies that either techPresident, The New York Times or MSNBC.com endorses any of their activities or writings; nor does it imply their endorsement of our activities or writings, or those of other co-sponsors either. We all agree about one thing: It's time for a people-powered approach to presidential forums, that puts you in the driver's seat.
I am incredibly excited about this project for a whole variety of reasons. First, look at the amazing list of blogs I helped put together to sponsor this event :
Afro-Netizen
Air America
AirCongress
BlackProf
Blip.tv
BlogHer
Buzzmachine
Care2
ColorofChange
Crooks&Liars
CultureKitchen
DailyKos
E-Democracy.org
FireDogLake
Free Press Action Fund
HotAir
Huffington Post
Hugh Hewitt
Instapundit
Latino Pundit
Media Bloggers Assoc.
Michelle Malkin
MSNBC
MyDD
New York Observer
Open Left
Page One Q
Pajamas Media
Pam's House Blend
Patrick Ruffini
Politico
Politics Online
PoliticsTV.com
PrezVid
Racialicious
RawStory
RedState
RightMarch
RightWingNews
Rocketboom
SmartMobs
Smirking Chimp
TalkingPointsMemo
techRepublican
The New Homemaker
The Truth Laid Bear
Townhall
Treehugger
VivirLatino
Yep. We've got BlogHer, Vivir Latino, Black Profs, Page One Q, Pam's House Blend. Even Sepia Mutiny's desis are in the houze. I'm proud to have helped to bring together this amazingly diverse group of blogs for this project.
Now here's the fun part. We've got until the beginning of December to submit, promote and vote for your questions and mine. I'm going to do a few events in New York City to get non-bloggers to participate.
So, what kind of event would you like us to host?
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My 10 questions
1. What were your extra-curricular activities in high school?
2. Where were you when JFK was assassinated?
3. Where were you the weekend the House judiciary committee held hearings on impeaching Nixon?
4. What was your earliest paid political position?
5. Which books about or by muckrakers made the greatest impression?
6. In reading early American history, which founding father do you relate to best?
7. If, as by a magic wand, the Iraq war could be over, what would be your top priorities?
8. If other peoples of the world were to have better opportunities, what do you think the US government's role should be?
9. How will you provide enough money to run your campaign, and what will you spend the money on?
10. If you are not the one elected, how will you redefine your public
endeavors?
1.Are you aware that solid
1.Are you aware that solid things offer enormously greater resistance to a falling mass than air?
2.If so, are you aware that even the N.I.S.T. admits that the Twin Towers "fell" at freefall rate?
3.If so, are you aware that that means that SOMETHING (i.e. explosives) had to have reduced the remaining solid majority of each Tower to such a state of offering no more resistance than air? Otherwise any "collapse" would have been slower than freefall rate by many orders of magnitude.
4.If so, do you realize what this means? Than the Twin Towers had to have been controlled demolitions, and thus 9/11 had to have been an inside job.
5.Are you aware that "Al Qaeda" is not in control of the U.S. Air Force?
6.If so, do you realize that this means that some in the Cheney regime had to have prevented the Air Force from responding to the alleged "hijacked airliners"? Meaning 9/11 had to have been an inside job.
7.Are you aware that the Secret Service has the final say in matters relating to the security of the President? If so, how on the morning of 9/11, when Andy Card told Bush that there had been a second crash at the Twin Towers, how on earth did they know Bush was not a possible target? Because they certainly did not whisk him away to a safer location immediately, but instead allowed Bush to remain at Booker Elementary school for over 35 minutes after Card told him the news, even allowing him to give a pre-scheduled, pre-announced press conference. The only way the Secret Service could have been so sure that Bush was not even a POSSIBLE target that morning is if they knew the 9/11 target list, meaning 9/11 had to have been an inside job.
8.Are you aware that the accused "hijacker pilots" couldn't even fly small single-engine propellor planes worth a damn? And that none had flown any kind of a jet before? Yet we are supposed to believe they were able to hop in the cockpit of Boeing 757s and -767s and fly them like pro pilots? One even performing a beautiful corkscrew turn descending to crash into the first floor of the Pentagon, yet didn't even scrape the lawn??
9.Are you aware that not only were the "hijacker pilots" totally unskilled, but were also very un-Muslim, drinking vodka like fish, eating pork, watching porn, getting lapdances from strippers, visiting prostitutes, snorting cocaine, smoking pot, and gambling on a gambling ship as well as in Las Vegas, "Sin City"? If so, do you realize that such people would not in any way be willing to sacrifice their lives for a religion that they don't even observe?
10.If you read all of the above (and have more than 5 brain cells), are you going to have Bush and Cheney impeached? I realize it's not a blow job from a fat girl in a beret but still, I think it merits impeachment.





























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