Asking Obama the Tough Questions the Media Won’t

Obama: Does he even know the difference between the truth and a lie?

Keith Hennessey has 20 questions he’d like to ask Obama at tonight’s Health Care Reform campaign tour stop.

In case any members of the White House press corps are looking for more rigorous questions focused on economic policy, I offer the following for your consideration.

Go read the whole post, as Keith has a great list of questions I’d love to know the answers to. Unfortunately, the State Run Media won’t ask, and Obama won’t tell.

Questions like:

You proposed spending money from the TARP to prevent foreclosures, help small businesses, and to buy toxic assets from banks.  In June CBO said they had found no evidence that any money has been spent for any of these programs.  How many foreclosures have been prevented, how many small businesses have received loans from, and how many toxic assets have been purchased?

Meanwhile, The State Run Media™ has been all to happy to sit back (oftentimes with a shudder running up their legs) and watch Obama’s perpetual campaign roll through town without asking him a single difficult question, or pressing him when he refuses to give an honest answer to even the softballs they lob at him.

Remember this one Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times:

During these first 100 days, what has surprised you the most about this office, enchanted you the most about serving in this office, humbled you the most and troubled you the most?

As more than half of all Americans (to include many Democrats in Congress) do not support Obama care, the question I’d like to ask Obama is:

Would you have enrolled your own (now dead) grandmother in the Public Option healt care plan, and thus allow bureaucrats to decide whether or not to repair her broken hip or to just let her “lie there in misery in the waning days of her life” like you’re willing to let happen to every other American?

Meanwhile, in tonight’s Campaign speech on Health Care, Obama will claim lie that he has “rescued the economy.” Just don’t look at any facts (3 million jobs lost since taking office) or figures (unemployment over 10% despite his claims that the stimulus would prevent it from reaching 8%).

Which leads to my second question for Obama: You’re still smoking dope, aren’t you? Because there is no other way you could possibly stand up there and say “we’ve rescued the economy” unless you are high.