from iowahawk‘s “Questions, So Many Questions“
President Obama graciously offered to take questions submitted via Twitter today, courtesy the #AskObama hashtag. Being an inquisitive sort, I decided to submit a few that have been nagging me.
Below are my favorites: (click on full article above for more)
- An $8 billion high speed train leaves Chicago for Iowa City at 8:15am at 40mph. Why?
- How come you haven’t made unemployment illegal? #duh
- Instead of making cars get 62 mpg, why not 62 million mpg? Also, do something about the gravitational constant.
- Have you ever had a menial job, changed your own oil, or fixed a toilet?
- Subtract Malia’s age from the number of states. Multiply the result by the number of jobs saved or created.
- Math wasn’t your strong suit, was it?
- I let my Mexican drug lord license expire. Am I still eligible for the free machine gun program?
- When you’re visiting his volcano lair, does George Soros let you feed the laser sharks?
- The staffer who suggested this Twitter Town Hall is fired, isn’t he?
- Are you smart enough to create a problem so big that even you could not solve it?
- Why isn’t your cabinet unionized?
- If Joe Biden has a massive stroke, (a) do you have a replacement in mind, and (b) how would you tell?
- Is there any job you’d be better at than president?
- I understand you finally quit smoking. Do they make a patch for spending addicts too?
- Is this question racist?
- Why do you need permission to be clear, and not need permission to bomb Libya?
- On behalf of the entire US population: dude, WTF?
- Let’s say instead of winning the future, we end up in a tie. Do we then go to sudden death overtime?
- I just voted to increase my sobriety ceiling. Why won’t the bartender give me another drink?
- I really need to start living within my means. Do you recommend I start holding up banks or convenience stores?
- If ATMs are so bad, why do you keep treating me like one?
- Whose spending created your job?
- When you create jobs, why do always create them for Texas?
- Are strawmen cheaper when you buy them by the gross?
- How much CO2 is created by a burning straw man?
- Who are these “those who say”?
- This whole Twitter Town Hall thing is turning out to be another amateur disaster, isn’t it?
- If Eric Holder gets indicted in Operation Fast & Furious, should he get a civilian trial?
- If we eat the rich, what do we get for dessert?
- if punishing employers results in more employment, can you also punish beer makers?
- Psst… got any spare tix for the 2016 Chicago Olympics?
- Since you’ve doubled the number of wars, shouldn’t you be getting another Nobel Peace Prize?
