I decided to first take the quiz and then read the section 'Barack Obama: The making of a candidate'. Within the first 2 questions I realized I did not have a clue to the answers and decided to reverse my choice by reading the Chicago Tribune's "Making of a candidate series" about Barack Obama which is actually eight articles with additional videos if desired .
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I am battling a horrible flu and do not think I can read anymore. I have not even finished the first of the articles about his young years. My eyes are blurring and my head is throbbing. So I leave this journey for you and will get back to this much later.
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Anita Dehghani
March 27, 2008
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Test your Barack Obama IQ
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Voters will be taking a fresh look at Barack Obama. The best place to start: the definitive profile on his public and private record, the Chicago Tribune's "Making of a candidate series." 'Barack Obama: The making of a candidate'
AT - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-obama-life-storygallery,0,6974953.storygallery
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The following quiz, derived from that series, will test your Obama IQ and rank your score from "Yes, we can" to "No, we shouldnt."
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AT - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-obama-quiz,0,234858.triviaquiz
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Comments: 14
I looked at the quiz and was disappointed. Most of those things are not important in deciding if he will make a good president. What kind of shoes he wore, what he talked about with a high school friend, which town his mother lived in, etc. I think they would have offered more of a community service by asking pertinent questions.
Why does he not wear an American flag pin?
Why will he take PAC money when he says he's an "Washington outsider"?
Why did Obama veto a bill to increase funding at Walter Reed Medical Center for disabled veterans?
Why does Obama support having multiple official languages of the U.S.?
Why does Obama want to restrict groups such as the NRA?
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Everybody knows who his pastor is. Why are you continuing to ask stupid rhetorical questions aimed at undermining him?
I don't wear an American flag pin. Do you? Is the fact that I do not wear one an indication that I am an Islamic terrorist or an unpatriotic citizen? You are trying to spin a non-issue into an issue.
McCain took in 55 MILLION DOLLARS last month from big corporations. You would like it if Obama had no money to counter the coming blitz of "swift boat" ads that are going to attack Obama, just as they attacked Kerry four years ago. It is a sad thing, but politicians need a pile of money to compete successfully in a presidential campaign. Obama has no choice. You would like to keep it that way. Tough.
Senators do NOT have the power to veto bills...DUH. Here is what Obama is trying to do about the mess at Walter Reed. Get your facts straight, Alexia.
I disagree with him on the multiple language issue. So be it. I disagree with McCain on much more important fundamental issues, like spending a huncred years bogged eown in Iraq. Compared to that, the language issue is a pimple on a gnat's ass.
As for why he wants to restrict the NRA, maybe this has something to do with it.
NRA threatens to kill Obama
Why does Obama NOT SUPPORT our wounded veterans??
But come on Bert, Obama cries like a banshee that he is "change we can believe in", but then his excuse for acting like Washington insiders is that - by change, I mean I will still completely operate like any other politician, I will just "say" I am changing the system -?
For example, the issue with PAC money, he screams "hey look, I don't take PAC money", but now he is going to say...??? "hey, I cant compete without PAC money, so I'm going to take it, but I am not like the others who take PAC money, no really I'm not, just ask my good friend who is a racist minister, who I have know for 20 years, who also gives weekly racist sermons, but who I have never heard say anything about anything in 20 years?????????????
HUH???????????
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Please name the next President of the United States.
[answer key: Barack Obama]