This is a short diary, and I have only questions, no answers. I would like people to provide their own answers in the comments, and please, if you think of them, ask more questions.
Are you better off now than you were eight years ago?
Is America better off now than it was eight years ago?
Is the stock market better off now than it was eight years ago?
Are there more jobs in the economy than there were eight years ago.
Is the unemployment rate lower or higher than it was eight years ago?
Do you have better health care than you had eight years ago?
Do we have more or less servicemen and servicewomen in harm’s way than we had eight years ago?
Is Osama bin Laden dead?
Is al Qaeda still the threat it was eight years ago?
Is the world, under Obama’s leadership making progress in defeating ISIL/ISIS?
Do you think engaging Islamic nations in the fight against ISIL/ISIS the right approach?
Do you think carpet bombing ISIL/ISIS is the right approach?
Do you think ordering our troops to torture (and worse) captured opponents is a good way to defeat ISIL/ISIS?
Do you think killing the families of ISIL/ISIS members is the way to defeat ISIL/ISIS?
Do you think alienating the entire Islamic world is the way to defeat ISIL/ISIS?
Do you think if we stole all of Iraq’s oil would have helped prevent ISIL/ISIS?
Do you feel safer than you did eight years ago?
Do you think women are “dogs”, “pigs”, housekeepers”, “ugly”, “disgusting”?
Do you think our president should tweet at 3:00 AM?
Can you respect a presidential candidate who carves out a position that if he/she loses, “the election is rigged” and who calls for “revolution”?
Do you respect a presidential candidate who urges his followers to deal with the opposing candidate with “second amendment solutions”?
Do you respect a candidate that encourages violence at his/her rallies?
Will you vote for a president who is openly racist?
Will you vote for a president who is openly misogynist?
Will you vote for a president who champions an economic plan that will cost our economy 3.5 million jobs?
Will you vote for a presidential candidate whose economic plan will add $5 trillion to the deficit?
Do you think a presidential candidate who has lost a billion dollars twice is a “genius”
Do you think a presidential candidate who pays no taxes is “smart”?
Do you think a presidential candidate with a thin skin and how is known to hold grudges for petty things is temperamentally fit to have the nuclear codes?
Do you think a presidential candidate who disparages a Gold Star family is fit to be our president?
Do you think a presidential candidate who launches a week-long attack on a beauty show participant is temperamentally fit to lead the free world?
Do you think a presidential candidate who can change a position three times in the same sentence has the mental stability to be our president?
Do you think a presidential candidate who is a bully and coward deserves your vote?
Do you think a candidate who has been helping people for their entire life can make a good president?
Do you think a presidential candidate who has met the leaders in 112 countries may know something about solving international disputes without going to war can earn you vote?
Do you think a presidential candidate whose first instinct is to military means to resolve international disputes has earned your vote.
Do you think your kids and grandkids will be safe from war with a shoot first, ask questions later president in the White House?
Do you think a presidential candidate who supports universal health care has earned your vote?
Do you think a presidential candidate who wants to ease the financial burden of attending college deserves your vote?
Do you think that a presidential candidate who seeks societal, tax and financial equity in our country deserves your vote?
This list of questions can go forever. Please provide some answers in the comments, and please propose new questions. I will H/T and put them up if I can. I have half an hour before I need to leave for an appointment. Will return two hours after that. Please comment and give me new questions.U
Update: H/T to a2nite, two more questions:
What do we do about making taxes more fair?
What do we do about bad/criminal yet unpunished policing?