DeanBlog Interview: Howard Dean

By Aziz P. -
Fellow citizens of Deanistan, I'm here to report that we have completed our task. I will submit the text of the questions below to the campaign today. The ball is in Howard Dean's court. I'd like to make a public request to any and all Dean-friendly websites to please link to this post and publicise these questions. We make history today - the relationship of Dean's campaign to the netroot base is as significant to American electoral politics - and as ultimately transformative - as television was to John F. Kennedy. The questions below are just a harbringer of the potential. Everyone who participated in this affair should be proud - of ourselves, of our country, and our candidate.

  1. Israeli settlements

    2. You have openly stated that your views on Israel are "in line with AIPAC's". How do you reconcile your support for multilateralism (as pertained to Iraq) with AIPAC's support of the Israeli settlements in Gaza and the West Bank, which are illegal under UN Resolutions 242, 338, and violate the Oslo Accords and the Mitchell Plan?

  2. Media regulation

    3. On June 2, the Federal Communications Commission plans to further relax or eliminate the remaining significant media ownership laws. Do you support regulations that limit how much of the media that corporations can own (and therefore influence?

  3. Human rights foreign policy

    4. How would you tie human rights advocacy into your foreign policy (particularly as relates to national security)?

  4. 9-11 investigation

    5. Will you pledge to call for a full and truly independant investigation into events leading to the 9/11 attacks?

  5. NRA relationship

    6. What is your stated position about the NRA organization and its tactics at the national level? How might you proactively support state deliberation around gun control issues?

  6. War on Drugs

    7. Do you believe the War on Drugs is worth the current costs, both financially and socially?

  7. Campaign finance

    8. What sort of ideas do you have with regard to big business money in politics? Do you believe that you would be able to attract this money without giving business interests more of a say than the interests of your grassroots volunteers?

  8. Cutting Gov't spending

    9. On Meet the Press Governor Dean was asked "But if you had a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, where would you cut? Where would you find $400 billion?" Repealing President Bush's tax cut has been your most mentioned way of balancing the budget, but how would you also cut federal spending to help reduce the deficit?

  9. Farm policy

    10. What are your views towards farm policies, especially those that reward overproduction? Specifically, do you support either the Dairy Compact, or the Iowa ethanol subsidy?

  10. Digital Millenium Copyright Act

    11. What are your feelings on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), especially as it pertains to fair use?

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