Mr. McCain similarly side-stepped a question about which of his five provisions would be a deal-breaker and cause him to vote against the legislation.
Mr. Bush, campaigning in Hilton Head, S.C., side-stepped a question today about whether the Bauer endorsement would hurt him with religious conservatives.
He also side-stepped a question about how VR will change our relationships and "physical intimacy" by focusing on communication rather than sex.
Ireland had not arrived in Christchurch at that stage, and Kidney side-stepped a question about whether his players were nervous about being in a city still experiencing aftershocks.
Mr. Romney, who will attend the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, side-stepped a question about the horse that is co-owned by his wife, Ann, and competing in the elite sport of dressage.
"I'm a pretty conservative person," he said by way of explanation, although he side-stepped a question posed in a later e-mail message about whether there were issues he dealt with in the Bush campaign that made him uncomfortable.
He finished his metaphor by asking: "Do we want our bear to just become a stuffed animal?" Later in the conference, Mr Putin also appeared to side-step a question from BBC correspondent John Simpson, who asked the President if he would to tell people in the West he had no desire to carry on with "this new Cold War".
Speaking before the vote at the White House, Mr Bush demanded an "up and down vote" on whether he would appoint Mr Bolton when Congress is suspended for a recess on July 4. The president side-stepped a question about whether he would bypass the Senate.
Gamee's CEO and co-founder Bozena Rezab side-steps a question about how long it took the company to reincarnate 23 of its existing HTML5 titles as Telegram bots, noting only that it already had a lot of experience with social gaming.
Chalmers stepped around a question about what specific discussions the opposition had had with the Coalition on the super package, saying he thought the government knew where Labor stood on the issue.
But just a few hours later, the seemingly simple step became a question mark after the Supreme Court agreed to enter a dispute that has dominated Texas politics for months: a controversy over the district lines drawn by state lawmakers and those created by a federal court.
