Barack Obama At 10 Questions
December 18, 2007, 8:52pm
Barack Obama, one of the frontrunners in the Democratic presidential primary, has added his voice to the the voter-generated video debate at 10Questions.com — but he answered only seven of the 10 questions before the deadline expired today.
That is the fewest questions answered by any of the participants, although eight Republicans and four Democrats didn’t respond at all. Obama didn’t answer questions about “corporate personhood,” the size of government and the two-party political system in America.
He also did not respond directly to the voters who submitted videos; instead, his campaign sent video clips from the campaign trail that attempted to address the subjects those voters asked.
The No. 1 question as chosen by 10Questions users focuses on “network neutrality,” a term used to describe the push for a government mandate on communications network owners to treat high-speed Internet content equally. Obama’s campaign submitted an answer that Obama gave on the campaign trail.
“Facebook, MySpace … [and] Google might not have been started if you had not had a level playing field for whoever’s got the best idea,” Obama said in a video excerpt from a forum with voters this year. “And I want to maintain that basic principle in how the Internet functions.”
Here’s a link-heavy guide to the other nine questions and Gravel’s responses:
- Is America a theocracy? (Answer)
- Should the federal government allow medical marijuana? (Answer)
- What will you, as president, do to protect Americans from wiretaps without warrants? (Answer)
- Would you agree to campaign reforms designed to take well-funded special interests out of politics? (Answer)
- Will you pledge to abolish “corporate personhood“? (No answer)
- How would you make the government more transparent and increase media and public access to the White House? (Answer)
- What will you do to fix our election system, and should Election Day be changed? (Answer)
- How much do you pledge to reduce the size of government in your first term? (No answer)
- How do you defend the existence of the “unconstitutional” two-party system? (No answer)
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