Comment: was interesting

i don't like gergen at all - but i think he was justified in his response. it seems like you are just steering him into your line of thinking with questions that are so abstract that its hard to see what you are getting at. there's probably a way you could do it more eloquently. i'm not exactly sure how - maybe people here have a better approach

you might try one of the two sets of questions:

the question i never have had anyone answer is (and it should be fact checked - but i think its right)

1. "in 2008 the Federal Reserve effectively printed 16 Trillion Dollars in one year alone. About half of that was sent from the Federal Reserve to European Central Banks and half went to Wall Street Banks (such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Bank of America). The US Debt at that time was 14 Trillion Dollars. Do you believe that this was fair to the US taxpayer?"

if they answer fair or unfair you got them on tape

then you can say. "Is it fair to the US taxpayer than these same Wall Street Banks (Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America) that received 8 Trillion Dollars from the Federal Reserve are the largest campaign contributors to both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney?"

They can answer "fair or unfair" and you got em on tape

then you can say "Do you think the US taxpayer is better represented by a candidate like Ron Paul whose largest campaign contributors are the US military, US airforce and US navy or Romney or Obama whose largest campaign contributors are Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America?"

that would be so neat to see!!!!!!!!!!

OR you could a similar one on foreign policy:

"do you think its fair that the US foreign policy is strongly influenced by the CFR of which the following CEOs of defence contracting companies A, B, and C are members of the board and have made x Billion of Dollars as a result of wars that have not resolved for over 10 years in Iraq and Afganistan"

* i wasn't sure of the companies on the board of the CFR so i just left them as A, B and C

"do you think it is fair that John Kerry serves on the CFR and has invested in these same defence companies and has personally made over $20M in a single year based on his investments in these companies"

* i am guessing at the amount he made, but its something like that

"if you were a US soldier would you rather a war declared constitutionally and debated in congress with a strict goal and timeline. or set as an executive order by a president acting on reports from the CFR"

"would you support the abolishment of the CFR and that a war could only be declared in accordance with the constitution and passed by congress"

Something like this could really go viral if it was answered and the guy squirmed! i think the fed one is much better than the CFR one