President Bush: As a father of a soldier (exactly your twins' age) who served in Iraq and saw terrible violence, I am curious if the images of your daughters' enjoying the nightlife in New York recently don't disturb you as being inappropriate due to the times we are in? Do you feel they could perhaps exhibit more decorum?

-- Peter Hansen

President Bush: Why have you held a historically low number of press conferences, and why do you only allow party loyalists into your campaign stops? Shouldn't all Americans, regardless of political affiliation, be allowed to see the president of the United States speak and to ask tough questions?

-- Tim Ashlock

President Bush: In 2000 you promised that your tax cuts would create 6 million jobs, yet you are on track to becoming the first president since Herbert Hoover to lose jobs during his administration. In light of this, wouldn't it be fair to say your tax cuts have failed to fulfill their purpose?

-- Luis Hestres

Our current rationale for our unilateral invasion of Iraq has changed from the gathering threat of Saddam Hussein's WMD when it was found that there were no weapons, to liberating the Iraqi people, to safeguarding "universal human rights," as President Bush recently told the U.N. If that is the case, why isn't the U.S. taking unilateral action in the Sudan and sending in troops to stop what Secretary Powell has rightly called a "genocide" in the Darfur region in which Muslims are killing thousands of Africans? If a multilateral approach fails, as the beacon of liberty around the world, what does the U.S. propose to do about the crisis?

-- Josh Grossberg

President Bush: Why has your administration been so secretive? Why, for instance, did you deny access to presidential records when you first took office? Why did Cheney have a secret meeting to discuss our country's future energy policy and why fight tooth and nail against exposing what went on? Why did you refuse to be under oath when testifying to the 9/11 commission (which you opposed) and why did you need Cheney with you? Why have you had so few news conferences where you answer questions from the press? What do you have to hide? Then there are a few thousand other questions, starting with: "Mr. President, how dare you?"

-- R.F.

President Bush: A recent international poll conducted jointly by the University of Maryland found that, in 30 out of 35 countries, the people overwhelmingly oppose your reelection, and in only one nation (the Philippines) is there majority support for you over Sen. Kerry. Your reelection is opposed by all of our traditional democratic allies by anywhere from 2-1 in Japan, 3-to-1 in Great Britain, 4-to-1 in Canada, all the way up to 10-to-1 or more in the Netherlands, Norway and France. And in this hemisphere, there is not one nation surveyed where Sen. Kerry is not heavily favored. Other recent polls show that in many Islamic nations, especially those in the Mideast, you have lower approval ratings than Osama bin Laden. Given that both you and Sen. Kerry believe that we need more help from out democratic allies as well as from Iraq's neighbors, please tell us why you think you will be more successful in getting the help you both acknowledged is needed.

-- Paul Lukasiak

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