Here's How We Can Force the Candidates to Discuss Impeacment
TechPresident.com, the New York Times, MSNBC.com, and forty prominent blogs from across the political spectrum have just launched a new site called 10Questions. The public is invited to submit questions for the presidential candidates by uploading them to YouTube, MySpace, Yahoo Video, or Blip.tv and tagging them "10Questions".
During round one, which is running from now until November 14, all the videos bearing the tag "10questions" will be collected on the 10Questions home page where anyone can vote for or against them. At the close of round one, there will be an audit of the top vote-getters, after which the top ten videos will be presented to the candidates.
During round two, which will begin November 17 and end December 31, the candidates will be asked to post their replies to the top ten questions, and the public will get to vote on their replies. The candidates will have until December 15 to post their answers; the public will have until December 31 to vote on them. At the end of this round, 10Questions.com will audit the ratings and announce the final results.
Out of the 21 videos currently on the site, none of them ask about impeachment. Let's flood the site with impeachment questions, and see how many we can get into the top 10.
You can submit as many videos as you want, at whatever length you prefer, though it is recommended that you keep your questions brief. Also, you can vote on as many videos as you like, but you can vote only once for each video. Video entries should be questions for all the 2008 American Presidential candidates (Democrats and Republicans) as a group, and suitable for a general audience.
Note: some of you will recall that back in July YouTube and CNN did something similar, when they hosted a debate among the Democratic candidates for president in which all the questions were drawn from videos submitted by the public. With your help we managed to get an impeachment video in the number one position. Unfortunately CNN and YouTube arrogated to themselves the decision as to which of the video questions to ask and--this won't surprise any of you--did not decide to ask about impeachment, even though that video got nearly three times as many votes as the number two video. To their credit, Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, and Chris Dodd posted their own video responses to the impeachment question after the debate.
Let's hope that 10Questions.com is more democratic than CNN and YouTube and that we can ensure that impeachment is given the attention it deserves.

