Questions I'd like to see the Republican candidates answer

Yes or No. Do you believe in evolution?

Should the President have power to imprison U.S. citizens without charging them with a crime and without providing them a judicial forum in which they can contest the accusations against them, as the Bush administration did to American Jose Padilla?

Do you think the process of waterboarding -- where the U.S. takes prisoners, straps them to a chair, and pours water on their face so they are in terror of drowning to death -- is a practice consistent with America's moral credibility in the world?

Luckily, if you and people like you vote for those questions at The Politico, we might just get answers.

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Joshua posed as a potential question:

Do you believe in evolution?

But Joshua that question is wrong, and you should know better! The question should be:

Do you accept the theory of evolution?

One does not "believe" a theory. One either "accepts" it, based on the evidence, or "rejects" it.

By Matthew Heaney (not verified) on 02 May 2007 #permalink

Matthew, you are exactly right, but the question I posted has already been voted up pretty high. A question with better wording probably wouldn't get to the top in time.

GREAT questions, Josh.

Questions I'd like to see Obama and Clinton answer:

Why don't you have any sort of remotely comprehensive or sensible strategy to agressively attack climate change.

AND

How is it that your party can so willfully take advantage of its constituents as to trumpet the two of you as frontrunners when you're both pro-nuke-Iran, in bed with the coal industry, and vow to do very little to roll back Bush's Constitutional transgressions?