85% McCain. No Surrender.

40% Obama. No We Can't.

Since a lot of both quizzes had to do with personal histories, and I've had years to study McCain's personal history, I'm not surprised that I tanked the personal Obama questions and did well on the Obama policy questions.

Heh, I got 75% on McCain and 60% on Obama. Know your enemy!

Who the hell is this Obama guy anyway?

The personal questions weren't even similar.

I was expecting questions about Obama's grandfather's service, or his achievements at Harvard... instead it asked about his farking shoes?

85% McCain, 60% Obama.

I guessed on some, but I feel like there is no way that I should have known that Obama was discussing abandonment issues with some friend of his waaaaay back in the day. There was a lot of fan-boy stuff in there.

75% McCain
90% Obama

/lying.

Wow, I totally suck. I should try to remember more stuff...McCain 45%, Obama 25%. Though I did get most of the platform stuff correct, and I didn't really care about a lot of the answers (types of shoe worn, mode of transportation) so I'm not too upset. But still...I really failed!

75% McCain. Read the first few Obama questions, realized I've be Ric Trolled by submitter. Not bad subby, ya got me.

Ok, given the responses for "On what other issues has McCain at times broken with the Republican establishment?".

Aren't those all things that he has since changed his stance on?

McCain 65%
Obama 50%

Why do your answers all add up to more than 100%????

two different quizzes

60% Obama, 40% McCain. Seems about right, but Obama will probably pick up a few percentage points when I retake the test in a month.

bulldg4life:
McCain 65%
Obama 50%

Same here.

McCain 80% correct. No surrender
Obama 40% correct. Score: No, we can't.

I stink.

How do you answer McCain's questions like what religion is he and his position on Roe v Wade when he changes his positions?

Is he Baptist or Episcopalian today? Is he for Roe v Wade or is he against it right now?

75% McCain 45% Obama.

/damned gotcha questions

Dan the Schman: I was expecting questions about Obama's grandfather's service, or his achievements at Harvard... instead it asked about his farking shoes?

THIS. Seriously... Shoes? Childhood name calling? The car he drove?

/80% McCain, 40% Obama

Sdecker: How do you answer McCain's questions like what religion is he and his position on Roe v Wade when he changes his positions?

Is he Baptist or Episcopalian today? Is he for Roe v Wade or is he against it right now?

Yeah, Roe v. Wade? Did he change his mind on that one too? Dementia has made him a dick.

80% McCain.
50% Obama.

Huh.

Master of the Flying Guillotine: Dan the Schman: I was expecting questions about Obama's grandfather's service, or his achievements at Harvard... instead it asked about his farking shoes?

THIS. Seriously... Shoes? Childhood name calling? The car he drove?

/80% McCain, 40% Obama


Datsun!! Fricking elitist.

Sdecker: ow do you answer McCain's questions like what religion is he and his position on Roe v Wade when he changes his positions?

Is he Baptist or Episcopalian today?

The religion one is a tough question. He was Episcopalian until recently.

90% McCain, 40% Obama.

Oof, maybe I should read Dreams From My Father after all.

helix400: Sdecker: ow do you answer McCain's questions like what religion is he and his position on Roe v Wade when he changes his positions?

Is he Baptist or Episcopalian today?

The religion one is a tough question. He was Episcopalian until recently.

That was my guess. They are fairly unobtrusive. Why would he switch to Baptist? Political reasons?

/not being snarky

bobbette: 90% McCain, 40% Obama.

Oof, maybe I should read Dreams From My Father after all.

What kind of shoes did Obama wear? Pretty sure it didn't cover those kinds of questions.

45% McCain
30% Obama

Maybe I shouldn't get to vote?

Or maybe it's rigged with trick questions!

Which is not one of Obama's fiscal plans...push for line-item veto? He already has that! It must be something else....

idiocrat: 45% McCain
30% Obama

Maybe I shouldn't get to vote?

Or maybe it's rigged with trick questions!

Which is not one of Obama's fiscal plans...push for line-item veto? He already has that! It must be something else....

Huh? President doesn't have line-item veto power.

Bottom 5 in his class at the academy? Well, I guess McCain DOES represent middle-America... he's the lowest common denominator.

Sabyen91: bobbette: 90% McCain, 40% Obama.

Oof, maybe I should read Dreams From My Father after all.

What kind of shoes did Obama wear? Pretty sure it didn't cover those kinds of questions.

Yeah, I got that question wrong... I'm not sold on why I should even remotely care about what kind of shoes Obama wore 20 years ago. I love shoes. But they're so far from being relevant in a political campaign. Especially decades-old fashion choices. Don't care.

LincolnLogolas: Bottom 5 in his class at the academy? Well, I guess McCain DOES represent middle-America... he's the lowest common denominator.

I got that one right. You just have to remember it is the same number of planes he crashed.

bobbette: Sabyen91: bobbette: 90% McCain, 40% Obama.

Oof, maybe I should read Dreams From My Father after all.

What kind of shoes did Obama wear? Pretty sure it didn't cover those kinds of questions.

Yeah, I got that question wrong... I'm not sold on why I should even remotely care about what kind of shoes Obama wore 20 years ago. I love shoes. But they're so far from being relevant in a political campaign. Especially decades-old fashion choices. Don't care.

I don't even remember if I got that one right. Just assumed it was the Doc Martens (don't think that was the choice but the similar ones). This quiz seemed to want to prove that Obama had less experience by asking inane questions about him.

LincolnLogolas: Bottom 5 in his class at the academy? Well, I guess McCain DOES represent middle-America... he's the lowest common denominator.

No, he was legacied in to the naval academy, and then he used his father's and grandfather's name and influence to get transferred to combat and keep flying even after he crashed several planes.

Sort of similar to George W. Bush's pattern of nepotism and screwups, except apparently, G.W. was a better pilot.

idiocrat: Which is not one of Obama's fiscal plans...push for line-item veto? He already has that! It must be something else....

The President doesn't have line-item veto powers. Rudy Giuliani sued Clinton and the Supreme Court ruled that line-item veto power to the President was unconstitutional.

Bush was better at flying after snorting a yard of coke than McCain? Hehehehehe.

Sabyen91:
Huh? President doesn't have line-item veto power.

He did the last time I took polysci. Apparently it was revoked in 1998.

I don't know what that y does in there....

idiocrat: Sabyen91:
Huh? President doesn't have line-item veto power.

He did the last time I took polysci. Apparently it was revoked in 1998.

Yeah, the Pres had it for two years. That was an anomaly. A lot of governors have it. I think it is stupid.

75% McCain. I didn't know that he smoked, or what his policy on guns or health care was. Also, I thought he missed the torture vote, not voted against it.

50% Obama. I was supposed to pay attention to where his mother lived as a child? Or what the 2010-2012-2016 plan was?

SphericalTime: 75% McCain. I didn't know that he smoked, or what his policy on guns or health care was. Also, I thought he missed the torture vote, not voted against it.

50% Obama. I was supposed to pay attention to where his mother lived as a child? Or what the 2010-2012-2016 plan was?

He, no, that is why I despise him. He talked about how torture was bad...and then voted for it. He reminded me of Spector. Talk a big game and then cave. Yeah, Pennsylvania, stop electing him!!

Sabyen91: That was my guess. They are fairly unobtrusive. Why would he switch to Baptist? Political reasons?

Probably not political reasons. He's been attending a Baptist church for years. He says the reason is simply because the message fits his beliefs better. My guess is because his wife attended there, so he joined along and liked it.

Pretty brutal questions from the Chicago Tribune, along with some sort of random off the wall ones (Obama's sandals? Really?).

still a good read

SphericalTime: 75% McCain. I didn't know that he smoked, or what his policy on guns or health care was. Also, I thought he missed the torture vote, not voted against it.

50% Obama. I was supposed to pay attention to where his mother lived as a child? Or what the 2010-2012-2016 plan was?

The Obama questions were even more stupid than the McCain questions.

helix400: Sabyen91: That was my guess. They are fairly unobtrusive. Why would he switch to Baptist? Political reasons?

Probably not political reasons. He's been attending a Baptist church for years. He says the reason is simply because the message fits his beliefs better. My guess is because his wife attended there, so he joined along and liked it.

Ick, Arizona baptist. Is that southern baptist?

Sabyen91: Why would he switch to Baptist? Political reasons?

Probably. There's a lot of doubt that he's even really a believer. He doesn't talk about his faith much because he doesn't really seem heavily invested in it. Unless he starts talking all of the sudden, I don't see much other reason than that it's just a political move of some kind to reach out to evangelicals.

Sabyen91: The Obama questions were even more stupid than the McCain questions.

Agreed.

55% McCain
25% Obama

Those questions were bad... for Obama.

/got tired of thinking about it after about 30 questions

Sabyen91: helix400: Sabyen91: That was my guess. They are fairly unobtrusive. Why would he switch to Baptist? Political reasons?

Probably not political reasons. He's been attending a Baptist church for years. He says the reason is simply because the message fits his beliefs better. My guess is because his wife attended there, so he joined along and liked it.

Ick, Arizona baptist. Is that southern baptist?

I think that's Chipotle Baptist.

bobbette: Sabyen91: helix400: Sabyen91: That was my guess. They are fairly unobtrusive. Why would he switch to Baptist? Political reasons?

Probably not political reasons. He's been attending a Baptist church for years. He says the reason is simply because the message fits his beliefs better. My guess is because his wife attended there, so he joined along and liked it.

Ick, Arizona baptist. Is that southern baptist?

I think that's Chipotle Baptist.

MMmmm, tasty baptist.

bobbette

I think that's Chipotle Baptist.

lol!

Sabyen91:

Huh? President doesn't have line-item veto power.

I think his implication was that the guy can already go through with a red pen and send the budget back saying "you'll have to change this before I stop vetoing" ... and then have his effective power reduced significantly for the rest of his term when they roll right over him and pass it by 2/3 anyhow. But still, he can already attempt something like a line-item veto.

Jim_Callahan: Sabyen91:

Huh? President doesn't have line-item veto power.

I think his implication was that the guy can already go through with a red pen and send the budget back saying "you'll have to change this before I stop vetoing" ... and then have his effective power reduced significantly for the rest of his term when they roll right over him and pass it by 2/3 anyhow. But still, he can already attempt something like a line-item veto.

Hmm, perhaps for budget bills.

bobbette: LincolnLogolas: Bottom 5 in his class at the academy? Well, I guess McCain DOES represent middle-America... he's the lowest common denominator.

No, he was legacied in to the naval academy, and then he used his father's and grandfather's name and influence to get transferred to combat and keep flying even after he crashed several planes.

Sort of similar to George W. Bush's pattern of nepotism and screwups, except apparently, G.W. was a better pilot.

Give W some credit: Whenever he drove a company into the ground, he pulled a profit. It wasn't that he was an idiot, it was that he wanted money and was willing to drive other people into the ground to get it.