4) Through dubious means, you and your allies in Congress managed to push
through an incredibly unpopular health care bill that helped lead to the worst
election night for the Democratic Party in 50 years. Since the bill has passed,
many of your claims about the bill have proven to be untrue. For example, we
now know the bill won't lower
costs and despite your assurances to the contrary, big companies like McDonald's
say they may drop health care because of the health care reform. Since
the American people have rejected your health care reform and it doesn't do
what you said it would, shouldn't you work with the Republicans to repeal it?
5) When you took office, gas was $1.79 per gallon. Since then, you've demonized
the oil industry, dramatically slowed offshore drilling, blocked ANWR, and killed
the Keystone Pipeline. Now, gas is $3.34 per gallon. How much higher do you
anticipate driving gas prices?
6) Occupy Wall Street has been protesting against Wall Street and the richest 1
percent in America. You are in the top 1 percent of income earners in America
and you have collected more
cash from Wall Street than any other President in history. So, aren't you
exactly the sort of politician that Occupy Wall Street wants to get rid of?
7) How do you decide which foreign leaders to submissively bow towards and
why do you think that's appropriate for an American President?
8) If they could, don't you think the Nobel Committee would take back the Nobel
Peace Prize that you were awarded?
9) You made bipartisanship one of the central themes of your campaign in 2008.
Yet, you've worked to push bills through Congress with almost no Republican
support, spent much less time negotiating with Congress than George Bush, and
you've said
things like, "But, I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do
a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I
don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking." Why did you
decide to break your campaign promise to pursue bipartisanship?
10) America lost its AAA credit rating for the first time under your watch. What
do you think you should have done differently to have prevented that historic
failure?
11) You cut more than 500 billion dollars out of Medicare to fund your wildly
unpopular health care reform bill. Given that Medicare is running in the red
already, don't you think it's irresponsible to cut money out of one entitlement
program, that millions of seniors depend on -- to put it into a risky new
entitlement program?
12) Back in July, you said, "Nobody’s
looking to raise taxes right now. We’re talking about potentially 2013 and the out
years." Since you plan to raise taxes if you're elected and you've had kind words for a value
added tax, shouldn't every American expect a tax increase if you're
reelected?
13) Why should the American people reelect you when your 10 year budget saddles America with more
debt than all previous Presidents combined?
14) Your stimulus bill cost more in real dollars than the moon landing and the
interstate highway system combined. What do we have to show for all of that
money spent?
15) Members of your administration promised that the trillion dollar stimulus
would keep unemployment under 8 percent. Instead, we've had 35+ months of
8% and above unemployment. Doesn't that mean we wasted a trillion dollars on
nothing?