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Can You Pass The Great Obama Inaugural Quiz?
Cybercast News Service, by Dan Joseph
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Posted By:Maryland_Patriot, 1/22/2013 10:09:50 PM
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| Obama´s second inaugural seemed like the perfect opportunity to find out firsthand just how connected Obama´s most dedicated supporters are to political reality. So, MRCTV went to the National Mall in Washington, DC and quizzed some of those who turned out at the inaugural to see just how much they knew about Obama´s first-term track record. What we found was that many struggled to exhibit even the most basic knowledge of the president´s actions over the last four years.
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Comments: These are the people who cancel out informed votes.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
pearlyjo, 1/22/2013 10:19:35 PM (No. 9133328)
Wow. Loved it when the lady asked, "Where´s my money?!" and she only got one answer correct...by accident. I´ll give her points for still remembering Obama´s campaign slogan however.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
horacer, 1/22/2013 10:31:03 PM (No. 9133341)
These people for the most part were as informed as the average voter. I was surprised that more than one named Sotomayor and Kagan.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy, 1/23/2013 12:46:13 AM (No. 9133444)
Multiple choice: Who is the worst American president ever? a) Obama b) Soetoro c) Soebarkah d) Bounel At least with this question, the vidiots would have all got at least one answer right.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
dragonlearner, 1/23/2013 7:29:24 AM (No. 9133627)
The most important question was about spending and they all seemed to think Bush spent more than Obama.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
49 Ford, 1/23/2013 7:47:30 AM (No. 9133660)
Don´t be too sure of that, #3.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Husker Infidel, 1/23/2013 7:58:42 AM (No. 9133684)
They still think Bush spent more than Obama. The Low Information Voters get their information from the MSM. That´s why they don´t know what´s going on.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/23/2013 8:12:05 AM (No. 9133708)
Low information demonrat voters: Dumber than dirt.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Grambo, 1/23/2013 8:57:07 AM (No. 9133791)
Imagine if a simple civics quiz had to be passed in order to get a ballot. None of these people would have voted.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 1/23/2013 9:04:11 AM (No. 9133805)
Until the end of the civil war, the only people who could vote were white, male, land-owners, professionals, clergy, and business men. Can anyone guess why they ran the country that way then?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Pammie, 1/23/2013 9:27:50 AM (No. 9133864)
Low information and high reality voters at their finest!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
smcchk, 1/23/2013 10:24:17 AM (No. 9133989)
Wow. Where do they get their information, if at all? They don´t even know that our debt is skyrocketing?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Butch59, 1/23/2013 10:39:49 AM (No. 9134042)
They get their information from the internet because you can´t put anything on the internet that isn´t true!/s
Sadly, I have fmaily members who think this way.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
RancherJack, 1/23/2013 11:17:26 AM (No. 9134175)
Inaugural festivities included nearly nekkid dancers and GaGa prancing about flashing their bidness as if the White House and Executive Branch are inner city hoods with ...
.... wait.
It´s true. Whores, fools, street thugs, killers, scam artists, druggies, tax dodgers ... yep. The most respected address in the world is now a den of Pimps.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/23/2013 11:40:09 AM (No. 9134263)
Literacy tests weren´t such a bad idea.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
garyhope, 1/23/2013 12:52:12 PM (No. 9134491)
#10, the objective is not to "go down fighting", the objective is to win and restore the country and freedom to it´s rightful top place.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
3XALADY, 1/23/2013 1:46:39 PM (No. 9134616)
I´m willing to bet this is the first time there was dancing on the table tops at post inaugural parties. Unless it also happened four years ago and just wasn´t reported.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
steph_gray, 1/23/2013 2:06:37 PM (No. 9134643)
Agree completely #15. And today such tests would be far from racist. Thanks to decades of leftist educational "improvements" I would guess the percentage of adults who can´t read and comprehend is pretty much spread evenly across most groups, with one exception - wildly over-represented amongst Dims.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
vesicant, 1/23/2013 4:11:19 PM (No. 9134903)
Jimmy Kimmel already did this in LA the day *before* the inauguration, and people claimed that they saw it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/23/2013 4:15:29 PM (No. 9134910)
Thank you #16!!!
Nice to know that we have a Justice San Mateo (she must be right below San Francisco). Maybe that is the new justice that the lady believes is black. Right? ...this would be funny if it weren´t so scary!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/23/2013 4:19:42 PM (No. 9134921)
#9, I think your handle may be appropriate. I am not a white, male land-owner but I think that my vote is very well informed. Sorry, but I do not buy that ancient view that we should go back to the dark ages of only wealthy white males making all our decisions for us. BARF!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/23/2013 8:24:13 PM (No. 9135297)
Can Zippy pass the test without a teleprompter ?
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