NoMoreBlather

You support the Senate immigration bill, and you claim that it isn't 'amnesty'. Isn't that simply a game of semantics? No matter what you want to call it, isn't it a fact that not only the great majority of Americans will perceive it to be amnesty, but millions of prospective illegal aliens around the world will perceive it as amnesty? You could call it a "banana" if you wanted, but isn't what's really important how it's perceived around the world? Do you seriously think that millions of people in other countries will not see it as amnesty?

An alternate question based on the transcript below would ask him about his semantic games regarding social security benefits for illegal aliens.

Mr. Patrick:

You support in-state tuition rates for illegal aliens. [1]

Since there are only a finite number of discounted college educations available, every single discount that goes to an illegal alien represents a discount that was taken away from a U.S. citizen.

What would you say to a U.S. citizen who can't go to college because legislation you support took their discount and gave it to a foreign citizen who's here illegally?

Alternate questions:
Won't this provide yet another incentive for illegal aliens to move to Massachusetts?
Won't this make matters even worse, in that more illegal aliens will come, creating an even greater call from politicians such as yourself to give discounts to illegal aliens?

You support the McCain-Kennedy immigration scheme, and you claim - assisted by Barack Obama - that you do not support amnesty and benefits for illegal aliens. But, isn't that simply a matter of semantics?

Kennedy-McCain would wave a magic wand and declare millions of current illegal aliens to be legal residents, and eligible for billions of dollars worth of benefits. One day they'd be illegal aliens, the next day they'd be legal residents and able to receive billions and billions of dollars.

So, if we parse your statement very carefully, then you don't support benefits for illegal aliens: we'd have to wave a magic wand first before giving them benefits.

Many questions that MSM reporters ask can be answered with a politician's standard talking points, something that can be more easily obtained from their website.

This site wants the follow-up questions that point out problems and contradictions with the standard talking points.

And, we want to encourage anyone to call those politician's offices and ask them those difficult questions, or visit campaign appearances and try to ask them during a Q&A session.

This site will collect both the questions and any answers (or non-answers as the case may be).

Anyone can post here using the 'create content' link on the left side of the page, but only detailed, fact-based, questions for specific candidates will be promoted to the home page. Questions that are not detailed or are not directed at a specific candidate or group of candidates may be deleted at the administrator's discretion.