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Blue State Politics: What Would YOU Ask Obama and Romney?

Have a question for the candidates? Submit it below and it could be asked during the televised Oct. 16 Town Hall Presidential Debate. We want to know what Maryland wants to know.

 

 

If last Wednesday’s presidential debate left you with questions, here’s a chance to ask a follow up. No moderator required.

After the vice presidential debate this Thursday between Vice President Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI, the next presidential debate will be Oct. 16 in a town hall format at Hofstra University in Long Island.

Voters will ask President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney about domestic and foreign policy.

Patch is asking you, our readers, to participate by submitting questions for the candidates.

All you have to do is post your question in the comments section below and we’ll send it to the Commission on Presidential Debates. The Commission is partnering with Patch's parent company Aol, along with Google and Yahoo, to take questions from web users across the country.

In these last weeks leading up to the election, we've asked if you're better off than you were four years ago, whether a presidential contest can turn on one leak of a videotape and who would win the first presidential debate?

You've had lively discussions on those topics in this forum. How would you do on the national stage? 

We want to know what Maryland would ask. Share your questions in the comments.

Related Topics: Blue State Politics, Mitt Romney, Patch Politics, Politics 2012, President Obama, Presidential Debate, and Second presidential debate

knowa

6:12 am on Monday, October 8, 2012

The court case of American For Safe Access vs. the DEA on its justification of Cannabis classification as scheduled # 1 the most dangerous with no medical benefits will have to prove this in spite of thousands of years of safe effective and scientific facts. This putting into redundancy over 70% of its mission. October 16th 9:00 AM Washington DC. Will the candidates admit the truth?

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Doug Love

7:28 am on Monday, October 8, 2012

When will you stop bombing Afghan weddin parties with drones? When will you close Guantanamo and give it back to Cuba? When will you debate Jill Stein?

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jnrentz1

7:44 am on Monday, October 8, 2012

In attempting to reduce the deficit:

Will Foreign Aid be cut? If not, why not? If so, how much? Will all countries be equally cut?

Will overseas US military bases be closed? If not why not? If so, which ones, and when?

Thank you.

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin

7:49 am on Monday, October 8, 2012

President Obama: Why do you have a fake Connecticut social security number?

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin

12:08 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

Obama was 15 years old and in Hawaii when he was mysteriously issued a Connhttp://www.westernjournalism.com/exclusive-investigative-reports/the-mystery-of-barack-obama-continues/ecticut social security number:

A nation-wide network of researchers has sprung up to attempt to fill in the blanks, but at every opportunity Obama’s high-priced lawyers have built walls around various records or simply made them disappear. It is estimated that Obama’s legal team has now spent well over $1.4 million dollars blocking access to documents every American should have access to. The question is why would he spend so much money to do this?
The president who campaigned for a more “open government” and “full disclosure” will not unseal his medical records, his school records, his birth records or his passport records. He will not release his Harvard records, his Columbia College records, or his Occidental College records—he will not even release his Columbia College thesis. All his legislative records from the Illinois State Senate are missing and he claims his scheduling records during those State Senate years are lost as well. In addition, no one can find his school records for the elite K-12 college prep school, Punahou School, he attended in Hawaii.
What is he hiding? Well, for starters, some of these records will shed light on his citizenship and birth.

Steven Schattman

8:25 am on Monday, October 8, 2012

I would like to ask Mr. Romney why he things a teacher, policeman, fireman, or plumber should pay a higher tax rate than him simply because their income comes from salary or hourly wages and his comes from Capital Gains. It seems to me that all income should be taxed at the same rate.

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Steven Schattman

8:26 am on Monday, October 8, 2012

Correction, the word things in the previous post should read thinks

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin

8:28 am on Monday, October 8, 2012

Ask the Congress. They passed the laws. Not Romney.

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Steven Schattman

8:58 am on Monday, October 8, 2012

Yes they did and Mr. Romney favors maintaining low Capital Gains taxes if not lowering them further. I consider this inequitable. The standard argument for maintaining low Capital gains taxes is if they would rise money would be taken out of the economy. Seriously, where would they put it, under their mattress!

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin

9:18 am on Monday, October 8, 2012

The Capital Gains tax is on investments from income that has already been taxed at least once. Then you sell the Capital gain and are taxed again. By the way, when you spend those Capital Gains you are taxed again in the form of sales tax.

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jag

11:32 am on Monday, October 8, 2012

LOL, Bill, please think a little bit before you type. No, of course Romney's income shouldn't be taxed at a minuscule rate compared to everyone who actually works for their $$$. Maybe this is another situation where Romney thinks the answer is just "borrow money from your parents" - that way none of us have to actually have a job and can just live off the capital gains of other people's work!

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin

12:00 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

jag is a typical moron liberal poster. He implies that Romney's money is all the money in the world. Also, this isn't the first time that there was a proposal to end the Capital Gains tax. Many everyday ordinary people would benefit. That's what liberals really hate. They don't want individuals to be successful because then they would no longer need government aide.

Piotr Gajewski

9:55 am on Monday, October 8, 2012

I would like to ask Governor Romney why he paid more taxes than required in 2011 and would he encourage others to not take full advantage of the tax code (or just those running for president)?

Also, after the last debate, in which Governor Romney seemed to assert that the rich will not be getting a tax cut after all under his proposals (as presumably all the deductions reform will take care of any tax rate cut), I would like him to walk me through an example of a high earner and show me how his 2013 real tax rate would compare with the 2011 real tax rate, under Mr. Romney’s proposal. Oh, and if you need a real life example, let’s use Mr. Romney’s 2011 tax returns (that he has already disclosed).

In other words, will Governor Romney indeed not get a tax cut under his proposal.

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Steve

12:10 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

LOL Call Ryan's office and they will send you a copy of the President's birth certificate.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/paul_ryan_obama_birthers.php

Even he realizes the Birthers are full of crap.

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin

12:14 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

The birth certificate has nothing to do with his social security number.

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin

12:16 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

http://www.spreadingobama.org/barack-obamas-falsified-social-security-number/
Recently Dr. Jack Cashill, an Emmy-award winning writer and producer wrote a book: Deconstructing Obama. He finds many trouble aspects to the identity of Barack Obama.
Cashill said, “If Barack Obama has an immediate eligibility problem, it is more likely to derive from the Social Security Number he has been using for the last 25 years than from his birth certificate. Ohio private investigator Susan Daniels has seen to that. On Monday, July 2, she filed suit in Geauga County (Ohio) Common Pleas Court demanding that Jon Husted, Ohio secretary of state, remove Obama’s name from the ballot until Obama can prove the validity of his Social Security Number. Daniels has done her homework. In her filing, she thoroughly documents her contention “that Barack Obama has repeatedly, consistently, and with intent, misrepresented himself by using a fraudulently obtained Social Security Number.”

Bill Hussein O'Stalin

12:34 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

Let's ask the President why he ignored pleas for help and let four people go to their death because of his incompetency. Here are Obama's bumps in the road pleading for assistance:
The former head of a Special Forces “Site Security Team” in Libya tells CBS News that in spite of multiple pleas from himself and other U.S. security officials on the ground for “more, not less” security personnel, the State Department removed as many as 34 people from the country in the six months before a terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others.

Lt. Col. Andy Wood will appear this week at a House Oversight Committee hearing that will examine security decisions leading up to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi.

Speaking to CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, Wood said when he found out that his own 16-member team and a six-member State Department elite force were being pulled from Tripoli in August – about a month before the assault in Benghazi – he felt, “like we were being asked to play the piano with two fingers. There was concern amongst the entire embassy staff.”

Read more: http://patriotupdate.com/30634/ambassador-made-multiple-pleas-for-more-security#ixzz28j4s40h3

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin

12:45 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

The source is CBS news you illiterate moron. LOL that.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin

12:50 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

Here it is straight from CBS news:

Despite two explosions and dozens of other security threats, U.S. officials in Washington turned down repeated pleas from American diplomats in Libya to increase security at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi where the U.S. ambassador was killed, Republican leaders of a House committee said Tuesday.

In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chairman Darrell Issa and Rep. Jason Chaffetz of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee said their information came from "individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya."

Issa, R-Calif., and Chaffetz, R-Utah, said the attack three weeks ago in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months before the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the U.S.

There was allegedly even a direct threat on Facebook, the Daily Beast reports. In June, militants associated with the late dictator Muammar Qaddafi allegedly posted a threat referencing Amassador Stevens' jogging route, even posting a picture of him.

Intense questioning over the White House's handling of the situation in Libya has gained a lot of traction in Republican circles recently,

On Sunday on "Face the Nation", former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested the ambassador was without security on 9/11, and that was a terrible mistake.

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin

1:08 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

As usual the liberals on this web site could care less about 4 Americans being brutally murdered. They are more concerned that people get their news from sources other than MSNBC and CNN.

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Steve

2:03 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

No, it's another Darryl Issa Republican conspiracy Witch Hunt.

knowa

1:27 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

My wife was born in Germany and I was born in England both our parent were in the Army and we both cant be president, we our both US citizens I we hypothetically should be allowed and I don't see any problem with Obama's citizen either.

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Danna Walker

2:42 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

Bill and Frank, While we appreciate your interactivity on the site, we hope you'll allow room for folks who want to offer questions for the "citizen's debate."

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Avocado

12:21 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

I would like Ryan to be asked directly about why he wants to outlaw IVF procedures. Biden should tell stories of a few of the millions of couples struggling to conceive whose option of last resort is in vitro fertilisation (IVF). It is expensive, painful, and doesn't even guarantee a pregnancy, but it is an important option to have for so many people who suffer in this way.

His stance on this issue is so extreme, uncaring, and misguided that I can't understand how people are taking him seriously as a potential vice president. He should be disqualified for wanting to make an important medical procedure illegal.

This should get more press, since 10-15% of couples in the US suffer from infertility. People need to hear that he wants to take away their medical options. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/infertility/DS00310

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin

2:18 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

No bill supporting this has been passed and this is an interpretation of a bill which does not appear to be anything but an attack on Ryan.

Anne Hummer

1:05 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

I would like to hear Mr. Romney's explanation for his sudden shift toward the center on so many issues in the first debate? You have never appeared to care for the middle class. Why should we believe you now?

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin

2:19 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Better question: After four years of lies, why should you believe Obama?

Bill Hussein O'Stalin

5:23 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

President Obama: What will you tell the Olive Garden workers who were cut to part time jobs because Olive Garden can't afford to pay your Obamacare tax. The number of cuts will be over 10,000 now and soon to grow to other restaurant chains. How about a straight answer?

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Jim Burnetti

5:52 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Do either of you believe that a 33% cut in the Social Security payroll tax, at a time the Trust Fund is bleeding dry, is wise public policy?

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Erica Davis

1:04 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Question for Gov (Mr.) Romney:
I would like to know since your viewpoint or stance on policy and topics (education, abortion, taxes, Social Security, Medicare, etc.) has changed according to which polls rate the highest, what and how will you consider keeping your word on the very topics you did not agree with in the beginning phase of your campaign? More importantly, what policy should we most believe you to stand firm on?

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Innocent Bystander

10:29 am on Friday, October 12, 2012

Question for both candidates. In general terms, Republicans want to fix the economy by easing tax burdens so the money gets into the hands of the people, especially the rich and the small business owners, so it can be spent and used to hire folks. Democrats want to fix the economy by increasing taxes so the government can spend the money and hire people. Same result -- more money being circulated and more people working means a stronger economy and more income for the government. Without using the phrases "We've tried that" or "It doesn't work", explain (using small words so its easy to understand) why there is so much national anger over this issue? Aren't both sides making an honest effort to fix the problem using the best advice of economic experts? Isn't this simply a disagreement over the best way to use that combined wealth where Dems say bring it all together into a giant pool of cash and Repubs say spread it out and let it work.

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