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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 209791" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>Answering a simple question is just an expression.</p><p></p><p>Politicians are asked questions like this all the time. What would you do about Social Security? What would you do to defeat ISIL? How you would fix the immigration system? What would you do to end the partisan divide in Washington? How would you improve medical care for Veterans? On and on and on. None of these are simple questions but are in fact quite complicated with lots of room for misunderstanding or oversimplifying. In fact most of these questions are posed in such a way to be misleading. Yet politicians are expected to answer them. My point was that it is just a question. You can answer it however you like and even use this as a teachable moment if you think the question was asked inappropriately. But to simply refuse shows either a lack of conviction or a lack of courage. Unlike some questions that are asked, this one, in my opinion, was asked out of genuine curiosity. Politicians not believing in evolution is a rare phenomenon in Great Britain. This was a chance to ask something that TV viewers in that country would have found interesting and exotic. It was a blown opportunity for Mr. Walker because, whatever that fine line is that politicians walk, he miss stepped.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 209791, member: 1640"] Answering a simple question is just an expression. Politicians are asked questions like this all the time. What would you do about Social Security? What would you do to defeat ISIL? How you would fix the immigration system? What would you do to end the partisan divide in Washington? How would you improve medical care for Veterans? On and on and on. None of these are simple questions but are in fact quite complicated with lots of room for misunderstanding or oversimplifying. In fact most of these questions are posed in such a way to be misleading. Yet politicians are expected to answer them. My point was that it is just a question. You can answer it however you like and even use this as a teachable moment if you think the question was asked inappropriately. But to simply refuse shows either a lack of conviction or a lack of courage. Unlike some questions that are asked, this one, in my opinion, was asked out of genuine curiosity. Politicians not believing in evolution is a rare phenomenon in Great Britain. This was a chance to ask something that TV viewers in that country would have found interesting and exotic. It was a blown opportunity for Mr. Walker because, whatever that fine line is that politicians walk, he miss stepped. [/QUOTE]
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