President Bush: It's 2020. You are happy in retirement with Laura, but she develops Parkinson's disease. Would you consent to the use of an embryonic stem cell treatment, developed in Europe outside of your guidelines, to save her life?

-- Thomas O. Crawford

President Bush: Your critics say that you're the type of president who spends yesterday's money, today's money and tomorrow's money, and then you leave the problem for some other president to fix. Are they right? If not, what hard choices are you prepared to make to balance the budget? Will you balance the budget on the backs of the poor, the elderly, at the expense of education? Would you consider rescinding your tax cut for the richest Americans, for example, the ones earning over a million a year? Is balancing the budget even a remote possibility with you?

-- Mike Morang

President Bush: Sen. Kerry has been accused of "flip-flopping." But is it not true that you have "flip-flopped" on issues such as the 9/11 commission; on calling for a U.N. vote on Iraq; on creation of the Department of Homeland Security; on a constitutional amendment on gay marriage; on use of the military for "nation building"; on the issue of tax credits for hybrid automobiles; on extending the assault weapons ban; on steel tariffs; on spending the Social Security surplus; on the patient's right to sue; on the federal government's position on tobacco buyout; on disarmament incentives to North Korea; on lobbying OPEC; on the Condoleezza Rice testimony before the 9/11 commission; on your pledge to issue regulations based on science; on the presence of WMD in Iraq; on restricting free trade; on the importance of capturing Osama bin Laden; on mandatory caps on carbon dioxide emissions; on an investigation into intelligence failures in Iraq; on summits in the Palestinian crisis; on campaign finance; on providing financial support for the first responders; on military benefits; on who was responsible for the "Mission Accomplished" sign; on the fingerprinting and photographing of Mexicans entering the U.S.; on your positions on stem cells and human embryos; about your support of the Low Income Energy Support Program; your position on abortion; on racial profiling?

-- Carlene Kruell

Sen. Kerry: You investigated major scandals like BCCI and Iran-Contra. In both cases, drug money and the associated violence and corruption were involved. Given that prohibition nurtures a violent and corrupt black market, and given that the most effective remedy for drug abuse is treatment rather than incarceration, why do you still support the failed war on drugs? Wouldn't it be better to flush the money out of the drug trade by bringing it out of the black market and letting competition erode the profit margins?

-- Alex Small

President Bush: How do you reconcile the reality of Iraq -- the spiraling costs due in part to the graft and corruption of the vice president's former employer Halliburton, the deprivations our soldiers and their families face, the kidnappings and beheadings of civilian contractors, the popular unrest and general insecurity -- with your "Mission Accomplished" statement of over a year ago? What exactly was the mission? Was the mission chaos? Was it broken lives and families? Was it death and destruction of innocents? If not, please clarify what exactly has been accomplished, other than installing another puppet regime, much like that of Saddam Hussein the last time we meddled in Iraq.

-- Ann Mulhearn

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