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RoadRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:12 AM
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OMFG - Go Take the "Barack Obama" Test
Has anyone seen this Push Poll "Quiz"? It's the most vile thing i've seen since.. well the last piece of crap that the Republicans were sending around. My freak neighbor just emailed it to me.. evidently my Obama sign is getting on her nerves. FANTASTIC!

http://www.barackobamatest.com

Everyone - PLEASE - go take this quiz. It's totally set up to be biased and tries to force you to want to answer the way that would point you in the direction of McCain by using complete misleading statements. An example would be "Question 1: Barack Obama supports teaching 5 year olds all about sex. Would you favor or oppose this"?

So, answer every question the opposite of what they want you to answer.. on the results page it gives you the percentage of replies who answered the "McCain" way and the "Obama" way. We need to up the percent of the "Obama" way.

Come back here and report your score when you're done!

I'm 84% for Obama.. that sorta pisses me off. What the fuck did I answer that gave McCain ANY points? Bullshit stupid quiz.
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GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:14 AM
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1. No, thanks. I'd rather not give them the traffic.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:17 AM
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3. agreed. Its like trying to convince Karl Rove to be nice...aint gonna happen.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:16 AM
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2. Fuck that noise
No reason at all to click on your link.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:39 AM
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12. The Questions Were Dumb...No Fucking Nuance...
Waste of time...
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:18 AM
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4. Nope, not gonna give them the traffic. nt
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shaniqua6392 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:18 AM
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5. Ignore this test and do not give them the traffic.
That is my opinion. It sounds like a set up.
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Thor_MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:24 AM
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6. Who wrote this piece of trash?
"6. How much should someone who wins $1 million dollars in the lottery pay in federal income?"

I wasn't aware that any lottery winners pay federal income. They pasy some taxes, but they don't pay income. Did these people study at the Freeper School of Language?
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RoadRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:29 AM
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10. They could care less..
Every fucking question is written so that it reads "OBAMA IS EVIL".. and you're an evil person if you agree with him.

It's utterly absurd.
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:25 AM
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7. not doing it!
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Ioo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:26 AM
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8. This is Push Polling on the Net... what a POS!
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RoadRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:28 AM
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9. Thanks...
That was my point of my OP. I don't think i'm trying to "increase traffic" to their site.. i'm just trying to get dems to see what kind of crap the other side is trying to pull.. so these comments can be defused.

I wish factcheck.org or something would link to that site and de-bunk all of the stupid questions.

"Which do you prefer, kicking babies or punching them in the head"
A - Kicking Babies
B - Punching them in the head (Barack Obama's choice)

:eyes: It's just stupid.. but the average idiot who takes this damn test only needs to see that they only agree with Obama 32% of the time per the quiz, so they better not vote for him.

:(
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1corona4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:34 AM
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11. I got an 88%...
and here are the questions I answered;

1. Presently, 85% of American energy comes from fossil fuels while 7% comes from alternative energy sources. Do you support or oppose increasing taxes on fossil fuels in an effort to force our nation to increase its reliance on alternative or renewable energy sources and reducing environmental pollution- even if doing so would mean the taxes are eventually passed on to the consumer?
Support tax increase on fossil fuels
Oppose tax increase on fossil fuels
2. Proponents of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska point out that drilling could cover an area that covers 2,000 of the total 19 million acres that make up ANWR. Should the U.S. begin drilling in ANWR even if we won't realize the potential benefit for several more years?
Yes
No
3. "How do you feel about increased drilling for oil and natural gas offshore in U.S. waters? Do you favor or oppose increased offshore drilling?"
Favor
Oppose
4. Some say Barack Obama’s plans to implement sweeping environmental regulations will raise the cost of gas, groceries, heating and air conditioning. Do you favor or oppose Obama’s environmental plans?
Favor
Oppose
5. The US currently adds a tariff of 54 cents on each gallon of imported ethanol from countries like Brazil in an effort to protect American companies producing ethanol from corn. The tariff is passed on to the consumer in the form of higher fuel prices. Should this tariff on imported ethanol…
Continue
Be eliminated
6. There are 104 nuclear reactors in the US today that produce 20% of America’s energy needs and no accident has occurred at these reactors in 30 years. Other nations, such as France, are far more reliant on nuclear power, as 77% of that nation’s electricity comes from nuclear sources. How much of America’s energy needs would you like to see nuclear reactors meet?
Generate 2%
Generate 10%
Generate 20%
Generate as much energy as possible from nuclear power
No power from nuclear reactors
7. "Right now, which ONE of the following do you think should be a more important priority for this country: protecting the environment, or developing new sources of energy?"
Protect environment
Develop new sources of energy
Taxes
1. Do you favor or oppose an increase in the tax that stock holders pay on returns from 15% to nearly 40%?
Favor
Oppose
2. Do you favor or oppose increasing the death tax rate to 55% for any income past the first $1million.
Favor
Oppose
3. Do you favor or oppose raising the top tax rate on the self-employed from 37.9% to 54.9%?
Favor
Oppose
4. America’s 3.7 million Sub Chapter S corporations, which are small companies with less than 75 stock holders, are currently taxed at a rate of 35%. Do you favor or oppose increasing the tax rate on these businesses to 50.3%?
Favor
Oppose
5. How much should Americans who earn $1 million per year pay in federal income taxes?
35% or less
More than 35%
6. How much should someone who wins $1 million dollars in the lottery pay in federal income?
35% or less
More than 35%
7. Tell me which of the following top individual tax rates, which combine income and social security, do you think is most fair?
28% under President Regan
38% under President Clinton
55% under would-be President Obama
60% under President Hoover
70% under Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter
8. According to the Tax Policy Center, Barack Obama’s tax plans would cost the U.S federal government nearly $900 billion in his first term, and increase the national debt by $3.3 trillion over ten years. Do you believe the analysis that Obama’s plans will be too costly for the U.S., or do you think the changes are needed?
Obama’s plans are too costly
Obama’s plans are needed
9. Some say Obama’s proposed increase in deductions for taxpayers would increase the number of those who don’t pay taxes closer to 40%. Do you agree or disagree with Obama’s proposed increase in deductions?
Agree
Disagree
10. If Barack Obama is elected president and follows through on his plan to raise taxes on businesses and the wealthy, what do you think businesses will most likely do?
Pay the increase in taxes out of their profits
Increase prices of goods
Lay off employees
Reduce employee pay
Absorb the extra cost
11. Do you think that Barack Obama’s plan to increase taxes on businesses and the wealthy will make you better off or worse off?
Better off
Worse off
Felon Voting
1. Do you agree or disagree that laws prohibiting convicted felons and non-US citizens from voting should be more vigorously enforced?
Agree
Disagree
Second Amendment
1. Do you agree or disagree that American firearm manufacturers who sell a legal product that is not defective should be sued if a criminal uses their products in a crime?
Agree
Disagree
2. Currently, 36 states have laws that allow residents to qualify for a permit to carry a firearm if they pass a background check, if they take a firearms safety-training course, and if they pay a fee to cover administrative costs. Do you support or oppose such laws?
Support
Oppose
3. Please consider the two statements below and choose which one agree with:

A. There needs to be new and tougher gun control laws to help in the fight against gun crime.
B. There are enough laws on the books, what is needed is better enforcement of current gun control laws.
Statement A
Statement B
4. Would you favor or oppose a law that banned the sale of handguns?
Favor
Oppose
5. Do you support or oppose legislation to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting?
Support
Oppose
6. Do you agree or disagree that you have the right to use deadly force as a means of self-defense in your home, without having to retreat?
Agree
Disagree
7. While in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama supported increasing taxes on firearms and ammunition by 500 percent. Do you agree or disagree with such a tax increase?
Agree
Disagree
Spending
1. Some people think the government is trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses. Others think that government should do more to solve our country's problems. Which comes closer to your own view?
Government doing too much.
Government should do more.
Defense
1. Do you agree or disagree that Homeland Security should have to seek out a warrant in federal court in order to perform search and seizure on a non-citizen on American soil suspected of being involved in terrorism?
Agree
Disagree
2. Do you agree or disagree that Homeland Security should have to seek out a warrant in federal court in order to perform search and seizure on an American citizen suspected of being involved in terrorism?
Agree
Disagree
3. Should someone who is not a U.S. citizen, being held under suspicion of terrorism, be afforded Constitutional rights?
Yes
No
4. Should the U.S. negotiate with Iran without preconditions?
Yes
No
5. If American deaths in Iraq are greatly reduced and stability has returned to the Iraqi government, should American troops withdraw in 18 months, or should they withdraw gradually over a longer timeframe?
Withdraw in 18 months
Withdraw gradually over a longer timeframe
Trade
1. Some say Barack Obama’s plan to raise taxes and increase trade barriers are similar to those created by President Herbert Hoover in the 1930s, which contributed to worsening America’s economy. Do you think Obama’s plans will worsen the economy as well, or do you think they will help the economy?
Worsen the economy
Help the economy
Health Care
1. Do you agree or disagree with Barack Obama’s $65 billion plan to institute taxpayer-funded universal health coverage, which would provide health insurance for those currently uninsured, including illegal immigrants.
Agree
Disagree
Social Values
1. Should a doctor give medical care to a fetus that survives an abortion, or should medical care not be given?
Doctor should give medical care
Doctor should not give medical care
2. Do you favor or oppose a woman’s right to an abortion based on the sex of the fetus?
Favor
Oppose
3. Do you agree or disagree that a physician should be legally required to notify the parents of an underage girl who requests an abortion?
Agree
Disagree
4. Do you agree or disagree that abortion destroys a human life and is manslaughter?
Agree
Disagree
5. Do you believe that human life begins at conception, when the baby may be able to survive outside the mother's womb with medical assistance, or when the baby is actually born?
Conception
Baby survive
Baby is born
Don’t know
6. In general, what should be more important to Americans in their daily life: Moral values or material concerns?
Moral values
Material concerns
7. Should America's laws be written following Judeo-Christian values or should America be an entirely secular society, devoid of any decisions based upon Judeo-Christian moral values?
Judeo-Christian Values
Secular Society
8. "Which comes closest to your view on abortion: abortion should always be legal, or should be legal most of the time, or should be made illegal except in cases of rape, incest and to save the mother's life, or abortion should be made illegal without any exceptions?"
Always Legal
Legal Most of the Time
Illegal with a Few Exceptions
Illegal without Exceptions
9. "Now I would like to ask your opinion about a specific abortion procedure known as a 'late-term' abortion or 'partial-birth' abortion, which is sometimes performed on women during the last few months of pregnancy. Do you think that the government should make this procedure illegal, or do you think that the procedure should be legal?"
Illegal
Legal
10. Would you support or oppose a ballot measure in your state that stipulates only marriage between a man and a woman will be legally recognized?
Support
Oppose
11. Recently, Barack Obama was asked when he thought life begins, in reference to the issue of abortion. Obama responded by saying that decision was above his paygrade. Knowing that the next president may be able to appoint two or three U.S. Supreme Court Justices, who may be called to make rulings on the issue of Abortion; do you support or oppose a president who does not know when life begins?
Support
Oppose
12. Would you support or oppose a ballot measure in your state that prohibits preferential treatment for any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in public employment, public education or public contracting?
Support
Oppose
13. If you knew you had a step brother who was living in a slum and barely surviving on $300 a year, would you help them financially?
Yes
No
14. Barack Obama recently said, 'The first thing I'd do as president would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act,' This legislation would wipe out all state and federal abortion restrictions including the partial-birth abortion ban. Do you agree or disagree with Barack Obama's statement?
Agree
Disagree
Justice
1. In general, do you think the current Supreme Court is too liberal, too conservative, or just about right?
Too Liberal
Too Conservative
About Right
Crime
1. Do you agree or disagree that it should it be illegal for convicts on probation or on bail to have contact with a street gang?
Agree
Disagree
Labor
1. Some organized labor groups want to eliminate a workers' right to cast a secret ballot in elections in which workers decide whether or not to organize as a union. Do you support or oppose the workers' right to a secret ballot when deciding on unionizing?
Support
Oppose


Apparently, I disagreed on a few, but the questions are trumped up bullshit too...



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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:41 AM
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13. Way too long
Not worth my time.
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Seedersandleechers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:41 AM
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14. Not going there
No way , no how.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:41 AM
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15. It would not allow me to submit my
choices. A window popped up saying I should be sure to answer question 1, which, of course, I did. They must have done this in response to our efforts, lol.
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RoadRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:47 AM
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16. Ehh.. thanks for trying. It would be funny if over 1/2 of the respondants were still for Obama.
considering how hard they're trying to push McCain.. it's pathetic.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:47 AM
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17. A product of a company called PM-Direct Marketing
Edited on Wed Sep-24-08 08:48 AM by blogslut
One of their clients - the National Rifle Association

http://www.pm-direct.com/clients.html
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RoadRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 09:13 AM
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18. Reported it to Snops & Fact Check...
Neither had it on thier sites (I think it's pretty new).. both emailed back and said thanks and that they'd look into it. Hopefully they'll have something up soon that I can use to email back to the person who sent it to me. Idiot.
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tomg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 09:16 AM
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19. I got an 84% also, and then I went back
and realized that where we were off was in questions that were so idiotically phrased and badly written that I thought I was voting for the other position.

It's just bullshit.

Oh,wait. I must be wrong. I just found out that the test was created by Brad O'Leary, and according to former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, “Brad O’Leary is one of the most creative and experienced observers on the contemporary political scene.” Wow. Glad I checked up. I mean if you can't trust Phil "Watch me pull an economic meltdown out of my ass" Gramm, who can you trust?
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Jersey Devil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 09:22 AM
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20. No thanks
Why contribute to the credibility of nonsense like that with a response?
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Erin Elizabeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 09:22 AM
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21. It would hurt them more to totally ignore them.
Whoever it is who set that up, that is.
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southpaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 09:24 AM
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22. I tried... I really did...
but I couldn't finish it.

It feels like a trap, and though I knew which answers I would need to select in order to come out with a high percentage for Obama, I just couldn't keep going.

Damn, they are obsessed with abortion, aren't they.


If there was a hell, I'd wish it on whoever created this steaming pile.
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RoadRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 10:08 AM
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25. Thanks for trying.. hopefully it will be debunked today. Assholes.
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medicswife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 09:31 AM
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23. Author is the former president of the American Association of Political Consultants.
What does that say to you? To me it says lobbyists scared shitless of the real change that Obama will bring.
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renate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 10:13 AM
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26. nice catch!
Wow, that really does say something, doesn't it?!
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hogwyld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 09:42 AM
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24. I got 96% for Barack
Blew the one on tax rates. Selected 70% under Johnson and Carter.
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 10:18 AM
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27. Wow....that shit wasn't even close to accurate.
4. America’s 3.7 million Sub Chapter S corporations, which are small companies with less than 75 stock holders, are currently taxed at a rate of 35%. Do you favor or oppose increasing the tax rate on these businesses to 50.3%?


:rofl::rofl::rofl:

S Corporation income flows through to the shareholders and is taxed at different marginal rates depending on the taxpayer.




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RoadRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 10:39 AM
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28. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..
If you own your own business, Obama is going to tax you 90%... don't vote for him whatever you do... Aghghghghghgh!

Assholes.
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 10:51 AM
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29. “Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.” nt
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RollWithIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 11:03 AM
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30. 73%, I'd guess some of the gun and abortion stuff....
Funny push poll though.
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