Asking the Candidates Values Related Questions?
What are Progressive Values? Documentary Project
http://progressivespirit.com
I'm following up on a Rockridge post about what questions to ask the Presidential candidates. Since CNN and Youtube are taking questions for the debates, I wanted to discuss what questions we can ask the candidates to get them to talk about Values.
http://www.rockridgenation.org/[…]/ask-rockridge-candidate-questions-1
I posted 7 video questions about values to Youtube for the CNN Democratic Debate
see all the questions on Youtube at:
http://youtube.com/group/ProgressiveValues
There's also a link to each clip after the question.
I would like to get any feedback about the questions. What can be done to improve or refine them. What other questions to ask?
Each Question starts with the same intro:
My name is Edwin Rutsch and I live in El Cerrito, California. Over the past several years there's been a lot of talk about Values by the Republicans. My question for the democratic candidates is:
CNN Youtube Debate Question 1: Conservative Values Failure
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NAN1voTQBlg
What are the underlying Conservative Values that have failed and how will your Values succeed?
CNN Youtube Debate Question 2: Conservative Values Government Failure
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kVwLdAZmdFQ
How has the Conservative approach to governing failed and values do you think are necessary for government to succeed?
CNN Youtube Debate Question 3: Values of Authority and Obedience Failure
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OsvfH06dCWk
Conservatives value authority and obedience, how have these values failed the United States and how will your values succeed?
CNN Youtube Debate Question 4: Values Shared and Different
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1sa1B-A-Hjg
What values do you share with the other democratic candidates and what values do you feel are different?
CNN Youtube Debate Question 5: Values Shared and Story
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UMHxDAnDgus
What values do you feel you share with the other democratic candidates and would you tell a personal story of how those values became important to you?
CNN Youtube Debate Question 6: Values Children Raised
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zr0Y1ec3YeI
How should children be raised in this country? What values have you learned as a parent (or through your parents) that will help you govern the United States?
(thanks to Joe Brewer for that question)
CNN Youtube Debate Question 7: Progressive Family Values
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jDnqnunPLcY
What are Progressive Values and how do they relate to the family?
Some other questions from the Rockridge Post, I'll try to record these as well:
What personal values do you exhibit most strongly? How do those values show up in your policy positions?
Can you point to a time in which your values led you to a decision or a course of action that was politically unpopular?
Aside from members of your own family, whom do you regard as your moral teachers and role models? In what ways have they influenced you?
What do you consider to be family values? What role, if any, do you believe government should play in the promotion of those values?
