Salon.com > Compiled by Salon News Staff http://www.salon.com Sun, 26 May 2013 01:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Your questions for Bush and Gore http://www.salon.com/2000/10/17/reader_questions/ http://www.salon.com/2000/10/17/reader_questions/#comments Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:31:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/politics//feature/2000/10/17/reader_questions Over the past 18 hours, Salon readers have flooded our mailboxes with questions for Al Gore and George W. Bush. Looking through the hundreds of questions, there were certain definite trends. There were partisan swipes at both Bush and Gore, ranging from lighthearted to libelous. Some readers want Bush to come clean about the so-called missing year in his National Guard risumi and rumors about his past, while others call Gore everything from a corporate sellout to a pathological liar. And overwhelmingly, Salon readers want Bush and Gore to answer why Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan were shut out of this year's presidential debates. What follows is a partial list of questions from our readers that have not been asked in the two debates so far. Who knows, maybe someone in St. Louis will ask one of them Tuesday night.

What justification do you have for maintaining U.S. military forces in Japan and Germany, years after the end of World War II and the Cold War?
-- Mike Hope

Given that you both list education as your "No. 1 priority," give us a list of five books you think every high school student ought to read.
-- Matt Amati

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2000/10/17/reader_questions/feed/ 0 Who won the debate? http://www.salon.com/2000/10/04/reacts_9/ http://www.salon.com/2000/10/04/reacts_9/#comments Wed, 04 Oct 2000 07:19:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/politics//feature/2000/10/04/reacts Round 1 is in the books. The much anticipated face-off between Al Gore and George W. Bush finally went down at the University of Massachusetts last night, keeping the cable news networks chattering into the night. Amid the clamor, no clear winner emerged.

Whether it was Bush's carping about "fuzzy math" or Gore's incessant deep sighing, undecided voters who went into the debate looking for answers seemed to walk away just as undecided. Even some of Salon's carnivorous partisans walked away disappointed, giving the performance a thumbs-down.

Camille Paglia is an author and a Salon columnist.

My first reaction to last night's presidential debate was relief that, should he be elected, George W. Bush will not be as totally inarticulate and brain-cell-deficient as we have had abundant reason to fear over the past year. Bush's performance was occasionally shaky but competent, and he stressed his key issues in plain, common-sense language that probably connected with many voters outside the Northeastern media loop.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2000/10/04/reacts_9/feed/ 0 More questions for Gore and Bush http://www.salon.com/2000/10/03/readers/ http://www.salon.com/2000/10/03/readers/#comments Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:09:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/politics//feature/2000/10/03/readers After Salon published 10 questions it would like to see asked in Tuesday night's debates, Salon readers chimed in with many more of their own. In all, we received more than 200 queries that our readers would like to see Al Gore and George W. Bush answer.

In addition to those below, we received numerous questions touching on the exclusion of Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader. The Cuba embargo, the environment, campaign finance reform, the candidates' drug policies and their personal pasts and energy policy also registered often on our readers' radar screens. Here are more questions for Bush and Gore, courtesy of Salon readers:

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