The whole thing is a joke. Here, let me sum up the big question that will be posed to both candidates:
"Fuck everyone else. Which one of you candidates will pledge to funnel more money to scientists?"
This would be the equivilant to attending a forum by any focus group. The intent is to get a bigger committment to that focus groups interests (and that always means more money). Doesn't matter if it's business, education, science, the military, whatever.
So they should just ask the candidate "Who promises to
Point taken - a big part of the discussion would certainly be about getting more money (and freedom) for science. Another big part of it, I think, would have to center around demonstrating (as humorously as possible) excactly how uninformed, uneducated, and underintelligent Bush is.
The word Science can represent the "focus group" that you're talking about - mostly in the form of government-funded research, in this case - but it can also represent a process by which we grow our understanding of the universe. And it is in this second regard that Bush is hugely inadequate, and has set back mankind by years (decades?) by making uninformed decisions that have affected the scientific community negatively.
Plea for money (Score:2)
"Fuck everyone else. Which one of you candidates will pledge to funnel more money to scientists?"
This would be the equivilant to attending a forum by any focus group. The intent is to get a bigger committment to that focus groups interests (and that always means more money). Doesn't matter if it's business, education, science, the military, whatever.
So they should just ask the candidate "Who promises to
Re:Plea for money (Score:1)
The word Science can represent the "focus group" that you're talking about - mostly in the form of government-funded research, in this case - but it can also represent a process by which we grow our understanding of the universe. And it is in this second regard that Bush is hugely inadequate, and has set back mankind by years (decades?) by making uninformed decisions that have affected the scientific community negatively.