A Question for Howard Dean: When Do Rules Matter?

by Heywood U. Reedmore -- April 23, 2008 at 9:56 am | In Questions We'd Like Answered | No Comments

Mr. Dean, in 2000 the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the state of Florida to change the rules in the middle of an election.  You’ve often referred to that as a “stolen” election, promoting the belief that the Supreme Court should have allowed the rule change — even if it was going to lead to an unconstitutional application of the rules to some voters but not others via selective recounts.  Now, here you are facing a similar decision on whether or not to change the rules and allow the Florida and Michigan primaries to count.  Hillary has said recently that the race for the Democrat nomination will not be settled until that issue is resolved.  So the question is, what’s different this time?  Why aren’t you willing to change the rules and let those votes be counted?  Why do the rules matter to you now when they didn’t matter to you in 2000?

The Ayers Question for Obama

by Heywood U. Reedmore -- April 22, 2008 at 11:57 am | In Questions We'd Like Answered | No Comments

Senator, when you started your political career in Chicago you picked two unrepentant terrorists to host your coming out party, Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn.  Yes, you were just a kid when they declared war on the United States, bombed the Pentagon, the Capital and other buildings — as you pointed out in the last debate by way of trivializing their actions.  But you were an adult when Dohrn served time for refusing to testify in a criminal trial.  You were over forty when Ayers said he didn’t regret his terrorist acts and that his only regret was he didn’t bomb more.  You were over 40 when Ayers wrote a book so he could idealize and glory in his criminal past and profit off of those acts of terrorism.  So the question is, why doesn’t it bother you that Ayers has never renounced his terrorist past?  Doesn’t that say something about his character, his values?  Doesn’t your acceptance of him say something about yours?  After all, why did you go to two unrepentant terrorists to help you launch your political career?

A Question for Hillary Clinton: What Accomplishments?

by Heywood U. Reedmore -- April 21, 2008 at 11:57 am | In Questions We'd Like Answered | No Comments

Throughout your campaign, Senator, you’ve been citing your record as proof that you’re “ready to lead on day one.”  But the two biggest examples of your executive leadership — your healthcare reform initiative in the early 90’s and your current campaign — are hardly confidence inspiring.  Your push to nationalize healthcare was a disaster; you were so secretive and belligerent that even your own party turned against you and the effort collapsed. Your failure was so spectacular that it ended your “two-for-the-price-of-one” presidency and derailed healthcare reform for decades. The second example of your leadership is your campaign, a portrait of chaos and — backroom deals notwithstanding — another failure. So the question is, Senator, when have you ever demonstrated you can lead any large enterprise, much less our federal government? If you’re promising to run our country the way you ran your healthcare reform effort or the way you’re running your campaign, no thanks.

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