Obama elected because Americans would fail a civics literacy test (suspect, wisdom)
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well it wasn't a good quiz because a lot of it was more rhetorical and opinion based than actual facts.
For example the following: In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
A. argued for the abolition of slavery
B. advocated black separatism
C. morally defended affirmative action
D. expressed his hopes for racial justice and brotherhood
E. proposed that several of America’s founding ideas were discriminatory
one could choose any of the answers and still be right except for answer A since slavery was already abolished.
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Originally Posted by Niftybergin
I've read on the news that Tom Tancredo asserted at a recent TEA Party convention that Obama was elected because Americans "don't have a civics, literacy test to vote."
Did Tea-Bag Tancredo also explain how that doesn't apply to every elected official or would that be too difficult to fit in to his bisased blather? Or too close to explaining his own time in office?
96.97% and I missed the one I missed because I got sloppy. I"m very much a left winger and I voted for Obama.
That was a pretty tough test -- good but tough. I agree with Katiana that one could probably vote intelligently without a good score on that particular test.
I'd like to see a quiz showing for people asking lobbying interests of their representatives, and see how many people score well on that.
How well do you know the guy who represents you? I'll admit, I'm pretty ignorant on that, and I'm willing to bet most people on here don't as well and you don't when you go to the polls.
well it wasn't a good quiz because a lot of it was more rhetorical and opinion based than actual facts.
For example the following: In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
A. argued for the abolition of slavery
B. advocated black separatism
C. morally defended affirmative action
D. expressed his hopes for racial justice and brotherhood
E. proposed that several of America’s founding ideas were discriminatory
one could choose any of the answers and still be right except for answer A since slavery was already abolished.
You can't be serious. King advocated for black separatism???? Never. He did C but not in that speech. And he couldn't have "proposed" E because it's a well known fact that E is true. Just for starts, people who were not free were counted as 3/5th of a person, women were not given the right to vote. Just two ideas that have long been known to be discriminatory.
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