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Questions That Won't be Asked at Tonight's Debate

<p>The first Democratic debate will occur tonight&comma; with 5 candidates making a pitch to become their party&rsquo&semi;s nominee&period; While we have now seen two Republican debates&comma; this will be the first chance to get to know the Dems&&num;8217&semi;&period;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We have seen the Republican candidates plagued by gotcha&&num;8217&semi; question after gotcha&&num;8217&semi; question&comma; so it would only be fair if the Democrats were to receive the same treatment&period; Each candidate has skeletons in their very public closet&comma; and we would like to see how the Dems&&num;8217&semi; can respond to specific charges&period; Here is a list of the top questions we would like to see each candidate respond to&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Hillary Clinton&colon;<&sol;strong>&nbsp&semi; Given your initial endorsement of the Arab spring&comma; now taking into account the rapid deterioration of the affected countries &ndash&semi; Libya&comma; Syria&comma; Yemen&comma; Tunisia&comma; Egypt &ndash&semi; would you be willing to say you made a mistake&quest; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Arab spring&comma; to anyone paying attention&comma; has only caused instability and bloodshed&period; We would like to see if Hillary Clinton is capable of joining us in the realm of reality&period; We know&comma; its a lot to ask for&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Bernie Sanders&colon;<&sol;strong>&nbsp&semi; As a self proclaimed socialist running for president of a capitalist country&comma; what kind of programs would you&nbsp&semi; establish that the non-socialists on stage would not&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bernie has been vague when it comes to clarifying his anti-capitalism stance&period; He has also been vague when talking about his opponents&period; We think America deserves to know what a socialist stands for as opposed to other Democrats&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Jim Webb&colon;<&sol;strong>&nbsp&semi; You have repeatedly called Ronald Reagan one of your heroes&period; In what ways would your admiration of President Reagan influence your presidency&quest; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While this adoration might hurt Webb with leftist voters&comma; we would like to see if Webb will stand by his contrarian views and give the American people straight talk&period; That is&comma; after all&comma; what Reagan would do&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Martin O&rsquo&semi; Malley&colon;<&sol;strong>&nbsp&semi; When outlining your ideas for gun reform throughout America&comma; you chose to name many of the policies you had established in Maryland&period; With gun violence at an all-time high in your state&comma; why do you think these policies would work on a country-wide level&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This question has to be asked&period; State government has always been called the test lab for federal government&comma; so a policy that has been horrendous for a state can&rsquo&semi;t be considered viable for nation-wide use&period; Let&rsquo&semi;s see if Martin O&rsquo&semi; Malley understands this logic&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Lincoln Chafee&colon;<&sol;strong> You voted for Barra<br &sol;>&NewLine;ck Obama two times&period;&nbsp&semi; Do you believe President Obama&rsquo&semi;s policies in the fight against ISIS were impactful&quest; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Before switching party&comma; Chafee was known as the only Republican to vote against the 03 Iraq war&period;&nbsp&semi; Given his support for Barrack Obama&comma; we would like to hear his opinion on the presidents handling of the Middle East &ndash&semi; something we all know has been dreadful&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While we know these questions are probably not going to be included in tonight&rsquo&semi;s debate&comma; they would certainly reveal much more about each candidate than the soft balls we are expecting&period; We will settle for at least one question about Hillary&rsquo&semi;s email scandal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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