Posted on 12/30/2003 5:42:17 AM PST by OESY
Test your knowledge [and patience] of the Democratic presidential candidates.
1. Which Democratic presidential hopeful's world-class hair inspired the White House staff to nickname him "Breck Girl"?
a) John Kerry
b) John Edwards
c) Al Sharpton
2. Which two of these actions did the candidate take after being called "Breck Girl"?
a) Accused President Bush of "trying to hide his follies behind my follicles."
b) Handed out bottles of Breck shampoo when he announced his candidacy.
c) Issued a press release accusing Mr. Bush of "scalping the middle class."
d) Declared that "the era of big hair is over."
e) Went to a shorter hairstyle.
3. Which position has Howard Dean taken on the North American Free Trade Agreement?
a) Supports it.
b) Opposes any agreement like it.
c) Says, "Nafta is here to stay."
d) Says America must negotiate a "New Deal" with Mexico.
e) All of the above.
4. When asked by The Quad-City Times in Iowa to complete the sentence, "I'm the first person you'd come to if you need help with . . . " Joseph I. Lieberman, Dennis J. Kucinich and Messrs. Edwards and Kerry gave the following answers. Who said what?
a) "Your homework."
b) "A personal problem for which you needed some honest advice and encouragement."
c) "Coaching a youth soccer team."
d) "Motorcycles, cars — I can fiddle around with anything mechanical eventually until I get it fixed — I persevere."
5. Match Wesley K. Clark, Richard A. Gephardt and Messrs. Dean, Edwards, Kerry and Lieberman with the occupations of their fathers or stepfathers.
a) Bakery-truck driver
b) Diplomat
c) Milk-truck driver
d) Mill worker
e) Stockbroker
f) Worm rancher
6. Match each personal issue with the candidate who discussed it.
a) His father's death in his youth.
b) His daughter's lesbianism.
c) His son's prostate cancer.
d) His brother's disappearance.
e) His divorce and subsequent difficulties dating.
f) His current difficulties dating.
7. In a recent New York Times/CBS poll, what fraction of voters said candidates had spent "too much" time discussing personal issues?
a) 11 percent
b) 23 percent
c) 36 percent
d) 46 percent
8. Which candidate, by his own reckoning, is a dead ringer for the Old Man of the Mountain, the famous rock formation in New Hampshire?
9. What similarity was noted over the last year between the Old Man of the Mountain and his lookalike's poll figures in New Hampshire?
10. Match each of the nine candidates (Carol Moseley Braun and Messrs. Clark, Dean, Edwards, Gephardt, Kerry, Kucinich, Lieberman and Sharpton) with a campaign slogan.
a) For an America That Will Inspire the World Once More
b) The Courage to Do What's Right for America
c) Take the "Men Only" Sign Off the White House Door
d) Real Solutions for America
e) Take This Country Back
f) Integrity, Independence, Ideas
g) New American Patriotism
h) Fighting for Fundamental Human Rights
i) Stop George Bush and Fight for America's Middle Class
11. In a speech changing his campaign motto from "The Courage to Do What's Right for America" to "The Real Deal," given underneath giant banners bearing the new phrase, the candidate dramatically declared that Americans are looking for "solutions, not just slogans." Afterward, when he was asked by the press whether "The Real Deal" was not just another slogan, how did he respond?
a) It's a "theme," not a "slogan."
b) It's a "coherent program," not a "catch phrase."
c) It's a "get-real philosophy," not a "cheap sound bite."
d) "Voters this year are looking for nuance, not nitpicking."
12. In Dr. Dean's re-election campaign for governor in 2000, competing bumper stickers urged voters to "Take Back Vermont" and "Take Vermont Forward." Which one did Dr. Dean's supporters use?
13. Of the leading Democratic contenders, which two have promised to repeal all of Mr. Bush's tax cuts?
14. Other leading candidates have promised to retain some tax cuts for the "middle class." The median family income in America is $42,000. Under the candidates' plans, what is the rough upper limit for a family to earn and qualify for a "middle class" tax cut?
a) $15,000
b) $25,000
c) $42,000
d) $125,000
e) $200,000
15. Asked by The Quad-City Times to name a movie that "still makes me laugh," Messrs. Dean, Edwards, Gephardt, Kerry and Kucinich came up with one each; Ms. Braun and Mr. Lieberman picked the same one. Who picked which?
a) "Animal House"
b) "Fletch"
c) "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"
d) "The Producers"
e) "Raising Arizona"
f) "What About Bob?"
16. Which candidate said, "Golf is like life"?
17. Why did he say golf is like life?
a) "You slice some, you hook some, and some you whiff. But you swing at them all."
b) "When you learn a sport, you go through the cycle of humility."
c) "You aim for the fairway, but you play in the rough."
d) "How can the middle class shoot par when George Bush is giving all the Big Bertha drivers to his rich friends?"
18. Which candidate said which line about Dr. Dean?
a) "Howard Dean has put himself in his own spider hole of denial."
b) He doesn't have "the judgment to be president or the credibility to be elected president."
c) "Howard has been all over the lot on the war issue."
d) "He was out there skiing when I was recovering from my wounds in Vietnam."
e) "That Birkenstock governor from Vermont."
ANSWERS:
1. b. 2. b,e. 3. e.
4.a. Kucinich. 4.b. Lieberman. 4.c. Edwards. 4.d. Kerry.
5.a. Lieberman. 5.b. Kerry. 5.c. Gephardt. 5.d. Edwards. 5.e. Dean. 5.f. Clark.
6.a. Clark. 6.b.,c. Gephardt. 6.d. Dean. 6.e. Kerry. 6.f. Kucinich.
7.d. (By contrast, only 7 percent of those polled said candidates spent "too little" time discussing personal issues.)
8. Kerry.
9. The granite formation collapsed (in May).
10.a. Kucinich. 10.b. Kerry. 10.c. Braun. 10.d. Edwards. 10.e. Dean. 10.f. Lieberman. 10.g. Clark. 10.h. Sharpton. 10.i. Gephardt.
11. a. (said by Kerry).
12. Today he is promising to take the country back, but in 2000 Dr. Dean was on the side going forward.
13. Dean, Gephardt.
14. e.
15.a. Dean. 15.b. Kerry. 15.c. Edwards. 15.d. Braun, Lieberman. 15.e. Kucinich. 15.f. Gephardt.
16. Clark.
17. b.
18.a. Lieberman. 18.b. Kerry. 18.c. Gephardt. 18.d. Clark. 18.e. Dean (jokingly).
ANd we all know the OLD man fell off the mountain, last year I believe....... Sort of like the gop LANDSLIDE WE ARE GOING TO SEE THIS YEAR.
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