By John Ruberry
Last week CNN hosted a town hall for Joe Biden where he was given softball questions. No, on second thought they were T-ball questions.
The demands on whoever is president are brutal. If CNN believes that Biden can’t handle challenging queries then that in my opinion disqualifies him to be leader of the most powerful nation on the planet. And if CNN is just shilling for the Democrats, then no one should take them seriously as a news outlet. Based on their poor ratings, most people already do not.
Here are some questions that responsible reporters should be asking Biden. The wonderful thing about the questions I’ve devised is that most of them can be posed to President Trump. Yes, a few of these queries have been given to Biden, but generally only once and with dismissive answers from the Democratic nominee.
Here we go:
- Will you be releasing the names of your potential Supreme Court nominees, as President Trump did as a candidate in 2016 and did earlier this month?
- Do you support “packing the Supreme Court,” that is, nominating additional justices to the court to go beyond nine members?
- Where’s Hunter?
- Do you unconditionally oppose Antifa?
- Will a Biden administration investigate plots by Antifa and other groups to incite riots in cities such as Portland?
- You favor a nationwide mask mandate to fight COVID-19. What is your legal basis for instituting one?
- Do you support statehood for the District of Columbia? And for Puerto Rico?
- Many states, such as Illinois, Kentucky, and New Jersey, have public-sector worker pension plans that are essentially bankrupt. Do you support a federal bailout of these and other state worker pension plans?
- Numerous cities also have similarly under-funded pension plans. Will you back a bailout of those plans?
- What is your position on bailing out states whose tax revenues have plummeted because of COVID-19 lockdowns?
- Do you favor allowing states to declare bankruptcy?
- Speaking of Illinois, in 2008 the US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald, was in the midst of a corruption investigation of Rod Blagojevich, the governor of the state, and Tony Rezko, a member of Blago’s inner circle who donated large sums to the campaigns of Barack Obama. Your ticket mate kept Fitzgerald in his post after becoming president. This year John Lausch, the current US Attorney in Chicago, is in the thick of investigating more public corruption. The center of this scandal appears to be longtime Illinois state House speaker Michael Madigan who is also the chairman of the state Democratic Party. If elected will you keep Lausch in his post?
- Where’s Hunter?
- If elected you will be older than Ronald Reagan, the oldest person to serve as president, was when he left office after two terms. Are you physically and mentally up to the office? If you are now what will happen if you one day are not?
- Do you support the Green New Deal?
- Do you support fracking?
- Do you support nuclear power?
- Do you support coal power?
- Do you back amnesty for illegal immigrants?
- Do you utilize teleprompters during interviews and question-and-answer sessions?
- Where’s Hunter?
I’m sure there are many more questions readers can come up with.
John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit.
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