Obama Won't Take Real Questions from Real People

Last week, Obama held a town hall forum. There was an internet question portion of the forum where anyone could submit questions, and then he also called on "regular" people in the White House to ask him questions. (I made up my own list of questions (below) but didn't send any of them in. Now that I know the deck was stacked I'm glad I didn't bother.)

Five of the questioners he called on in the White House have been fully identified. Now here's a real shocker: all five who were called on who have been identified are Obama supporters! They include: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama's campaign in 2008. WOW! I am shocked! Obama won't risk taking any real questions? I am blown away. Click here to read more.

In case you are interested, here are the questions I would have asked him about the economy, which I made up last week.

1. Why did you campaign against earmarks and sign a bill with 8,000 of them in it?
2. Why did you campaign on transparency in government and then strong arm our representatives into signing a 900 page, $1 trillion bill without giving them or the American people time to read what was in it?
3. Why do you want to harm charities by limiting the charitable deductions wealthy people receive when they donate to charities? Is it so the government will be forced to pick up the slack after charities financially collapse, thereby making politicians like you stronger and the government bigger?
4. Why did you say in your press conference that we are moving from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest? What planet are you living on?
5. Why were you giggling like a schoolgirl when discussing the economy on 60 minutes? Is this stuff funny to you?
6. Why did you trash Bush for increasing the national debt while according to this chart using your own numbers, Bush's spending was a drop in the bucket compared to yours?
7. Why did you spend $1 billion we don't have every hour for the first 50 days of your administration? Have you even heard of Dave Ramsey?
8. Is the White House aware of the taxpayer revolts (tea parties) occurring on a weekly basis across the country? What does Obama plan to do to appease taxpayers?
9. Why do you say you want to fix the economy when every single action you take says the opposite, like the card check bill, the limiting greenhouse gases bill, and punishing the country's producers with ridiculous amounts of income taxes? Do you think any of these actions will actually help the economy? Really Obama?
10. Why do you like to blame Bush for the state of the economy, when it's all linked to the housing crisis, which can be directly linked to Democrats forcing banks to make bad loans to minorities? Why do you blame Bush when the record shows he sounded the alarm bell in 2002?
11. Why are you punishing people who play by the rules and make their mortgage payments on time by forcing them to foot the bill for those who don't?
12. Why did you hire a tax cheat to head the IRS?
13. Why did you put a burden on the economy by giving free health insurance to kids living in families that make up to $88,000 per year? Don't you think families who make $88k a year can afford their own insurance? Is it so more people become dependent on government?