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Question 1: In a piece of CBS interview footage left on the cutting room floor, John McCain erroneously said that it's "just a matter of history" that the surge created the Anbar Awakening in Iraq. In making the gaffe McCain emulated which U.S. president more than the others?

a) William Howard Taft
b) George W. Bush
c) Richard Nixon
d) Franklin Pierce

Question 2: Barack Obama flies several thousand miles to visit U.S. troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan, where he is greeted with wild cheers. At the same time, John McCain is driven by former President George H.W. Bush several hundred feet in a golf cart to hobnob with rich Republicans in Kennebunkport, where he is greeted with polite applause. A senior strategist from which party greeted the contrasting photo ops with, "We're ******"?

a) The Republican party
b) The Democratic party
c) The Libertarian party

Question 3: John McCain has gone on the record as being both for and against stem cell research. What is his actual position?

a) For stem cell research
b) Against stem cell research
c) All of the above

Question 4: In the sentence, "The McCain campaign called America a 'nation of whiners' and John McCain violated security rules by revealing when Barack Obama would be flying to Iraq and the Iraqi prime minister approved of Barack Obama's withdrawal plan for Iraq," what part of speech is the word "and"?

a) Noun
b) Verb
c) 9/11
d) Conjunction

Question 5: In terms of internet usage, when does John McCain say he'll master the process of "getting on myself"?

a) A week
b) A month
c) Fairly soon
d) Never

Question 6: For how long did John McCain pause in a confused panic before trying to answer a question about insurance coverage for Viagra versus insurance coverage for birth control?

a) Nine seconds
b) Three seconds
c) Five seconds
d) One second

Question 7: How many times has Senator Jack Reed or Senator Chuck Hagel had to whisper a correction in Barack Obama's ear because he embarrassed America by saying something ignorant and false?

a) One
b) Zero
c) Six

Question 8: Who horrified medical professionals when he made a pledge in a major televised speech to "deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies"?

a) Jack Kevorkian
b) Barack Obama
c) John McCain
d) Emeril Lagasse

Question 9: How many reporters greeted John McCain when he flew into Manchester, New Hampshire Monday night?

a) 1
b) 4
c) 10
d) 13

Question 10: Who exercised sound judgment in October, 2002 with this remark: "I don't oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics."

a) Trent Lott
b) Barack Obama
c) Joe Lieberman
d) John McCain

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Answers: 1. b 2. a 3. c 4. d 5. c 6. a 7. b 8. c 9. a 10. b
I really hope you copied and pasted that, because if you took the time to type that up, you really are the biggest loser I know.
Exactly what does this have to do with anything?
It has to do with John McCain. He's the republican candidate for president in the upcoming election here in the USA. He's the really old one.
03-yawn

Obama=03-puke
Pop quiz:

1. What has Obama ever accomplished in his 5 minutes in the Senate?
2. While editor of the Harvard Law Review did Obama publish anything groundbreaking or that gained notoriety?
3. Who thinks more highly of Obama: his wife or himself?
4. How many times has Obama voted "present" during his time in Senate?
5. How long before people realize that Obama is a smooth talker and just tells people what they want to hear?

STLouis Blazer Wrote:
5. How long before people realize that Obama is a smooth talker and just tells people what they want to hear?


Some are already starting to catch on...

Another excellent article by Thomas Sowell

If you question Obama about a decision he made that was, objectively, wrong (e.g., the surge, Jeremiah Wright, referring to Senate committees he doesn't even sit on as "his" committees) then you:

a) heard him incorrectly and he would be humbly willing to explain to you what you actually heard him say when you thought you heard him say the other thing

b) are a racist

c) are succumbing to the attack politics of the past while he is only interested in blazing a trail of hope for the future

d) should feel embarrassed amongst your peers in the media for bringing up such trivialities in the presence of such an inspiring story of historical proportions

e) all of the above

f) any of the above

STLouis Blazer Wrote:
Pop quiz:

1. What has Obama ever accomplished in his 5 minutes in the Senate?
He's done as much as I have done in the Senate.
2. While editor of the Harvard Law Review did Obama publish anything groundbreaking or that gained notoriety?
See above, except replace Senate with Harvard.
3. Who thinks more highly of Obama: his wife or himself?
Ah, the unstoppable force vs the immovable object.
4. How many times has Obama voted "present" during his time in Senate?
About as many times as he mentions hope & change in one of his speeches.
5. How long before people realize that Obama is a smooth talker and just tells people what they want to hear?
After the conventions when actual policies are supposed to be told.

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