Roundup: Funniest YouTube Questions for Candidates
The hundreds of video queries submitted for the presidential
candidates' debate include some hilarious--but possibly heartfelt--
questions.
Heather Havenstein, Computerworld
Monday, July 09, 2007 5:00 PM PDT
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134280/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws
More than 600 video questions for Democratic presidential candidates
have been submitted to YouTube -- mostly on serious topics like health
care, immigration, education, global warming, and other timely and
important topics.
However, as CNN culls through the videos to choose questions for its
July 23 debate, it's also finding that some questioners are using
humor -- in many cases, quite well -- to get their points across.
One question, for example, is set to music and asks about how
candidates will tackle tax rates. And Jackie and Dunlap from
Murfreesboro, Tenn., fret over the attention former vice president --
and noncandidate -- Al Gore is getting from the media, and quiz John
Edwards on his attractiveness in their "Red State Update."
Others use humor to pose questions on who the candidates may pardon
and whether they would force the government to disclose information on
UFOs.
Here's our list of the 10 funniest videos to date.
1. #534
Remy takes a musical bent to his question on what he calls his heavy
tax burden these days.
2. #234
Tennessee's own Jackie and Dunlap ask the candidates to speak about
the attention Al Gore is getting in the press despite his pledge not
to run in 2008.
3. #52
Tony from Toronto asks for comment on a recent poll that listed some
strange reasons Californians cited for voting for Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
4. #393
Tim from Vermont wants to know if the candidates would support the
release of government information about UFOs.
5. #372
A questioner wonders about the candidates' plans for using the
presidential power to pardon criminals.
6. #396
A frog asks Sen. Hillary Clinton about her plans to clean up the
environment.
7. #20
Adam from Louisiana asks Sen. Clinton about how she is using her
gender as an issue in the election.
8. #307
Tim Miller offers a humorous take on the annual budgets of several
different federal agencies.
9. #483
Jackie and Dunlap are back and cut to the chase with former senator
John Edwards about his expensive haircuts and appearance.
10. #584
Jacob Soboroff asks: "Why do we vote on Tuesdays?"
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