A simple civics quiz...see how you rank

[TheMcGuffin]

This is a simple civics quiz. It is especially important
as you will see. Just answer the question to the best of
your knowledge and grade yourself upon completion:


1) "We're Going To Take Things Away From You On Behalf Of The Common Good."
___A. Karl Marx
___B. Adolph Hitler
___C. Joseph Stalin
___D. None Of The Above



2) "It's Time For A New Beginning, For An End To Government Of The Few, By The
Few, And For The Few … And To Replace It With Shared Responsibility For Shared
Prosperity."
___A. Lenin
___B. Mussolini
___C. Idi Amin
___D. None Of The Above



3) "(We) ...Can't Just Let Business As Usual Go On, And That Means Something
Has To Be Taken Away From Some People."
___A. Nikita Khrushev
___B. Josef Goebbels
___C. Boris Yeltsin
___D. None Of The Above



4) "We Have To Build A Political Consensus And That Requires People To Give Up
A Little Bit Of Their Own ... In Order To Create This Common Ground."
___A. Mao Tse Tung
___B. Hugo Chavez
___C. Kim Jong Il
___D. None Of The Above



5) "I Certainly Think The Free-Market Has Failed."
___A. Karl Marx
___B. Lenin
___C. Molotov
___D. None Of The Above



6) "I Think It's Time To Send A Clear Message To What Has Become The Most
Profitable Sector In (The) Entire Economy That They Are Being Watched."
___A. Pinochet
___B. Milosevic
___C. Saddam Hussein
___D. None Of The Above

Answers below....


















(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/29/2004

(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
5/29/2007

(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007

(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007

(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007

(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
9/2/2005

 

[Steve Rogers]

Interesting.

 

[Matt]

I can't believe I'm defending Hilary.

All of those quotes are taken out of context and some of them are fabricated.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/marxist.asp

 

[TheMcGuffin]

Some of these quotes were put together from longer speeches (you can check it out on Snopes), but the intent and meaning behind them doesn't change all that much.

EDIT: Ah, you beat me to it.

 

[Steve Rogers]

I saw something similar one time that compared President Wilson to Kaiser Wilhem and FDR to Hitler. You're thinking Hitler and Kaiser Bill were the bad guys they were pointing out, but it turns out to be Wilson and FDR.

 

[Matt]

Some of these quotes were put together from longer speeches (you can check it out on Snopes), but the intent and meaning behind them doesn't change all that much.

EDIT: Ah, you beat me to it.

Sure it does. When you take a single talking point out of context, you pretty much drastically alter the meaning.

Again though, I can do this with George Bush, Fred Thompson, Barrack Obama, John Edwards, Rudy Giulliani, or Mitt Romney.

 

[TheMcGuffin]

Sure it does. When you take a single talking point out of context, you pretty much drastically alter the meaning.

Again though, I can do this with George Bush, Fred Thompson, Barrack Obama, John Edwards, Rudy Giulliani, or Mitt Romney.

But it's way more fun with Clinton. t:

 

[Mysterio]

I can't believe I'm defending Hilary.

All of those quotes are taken out of context and some of them are fabricated.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/marxist.asp

These quotes stand on their own. Hillary has never been on the side of the individual. Her own professor identified her as a socialist.

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." [Hillary Clinton, 1993

 

[Matt]

No, it is partisan politics as usual when you single out Clinton and do it

 

[Matt]

These quotes stand on their own. Hillary has never been on the side of the individual. Her own professor identified her as a socialist.

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." [Hillary Clinton, 1993

Read the Snopes articles to see how out of context these quotes are.

 

[AhabTheArab]

im going to go out on a limb here, and say that mcguffin loves rush limbaugh.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

Sure it does. When you take a single talking point out of context, you pretty much drastically alter the meaning.



Again though, I can do this with George Bush, Fred Thompson, Barrack Obama, John Edwards, Rudy Giulliani, or Mitt Romney.

yes when you do that you become michael moore...

 

[PhotoJones]

"A Simple Civis Quiz", or "Let's Take Some **** Out of Context."

 

[Steve Rogers]

"A Simple Civis Quiz", or "Let's Take Some **** Out of Context."

Wow. I've never seen you over here in the community forum before.

 

[PhotoJones]

I pop in over here every now and then. I can usually only take so much before I go crawling back to the comics forums.

 

[Figs]

No, it is partisan politics as usual when you single out Clinton and do it

Not just Clinton, but the ClintonS and the Gores as well. All new age communists with the majority of their views.

 

[PhotoJones]

Not just Clinton, but the ClintonS and the Gores as well. All new age communists with the majority of their views.

Yikes.

 

[Figs]

Yikes.

Sorry if that offends you or makes you think of me as ignorant(which is the common thing to think of someone when their opinion differs ). I just never liked a lot of their ideas and plans, too many of them were too socialistic and government control happy.

 

[PhotoJones]

Sorry if that offends you or makes you think of me as ignorant(which is the common thing to think of someone when their opinion differs ). I just never liked a lot of their ideas and plans, too many of them were too socialistic and government control happy.

What kind of politician do you prefer?

 

[Figs]

What kind of politician do you prefer?

The kind of politician I prefer doesn't exist in reality lol.

 

[Steve Rogers]

The kind of politician I prefer doesn't exist in reality lol.

I was gonna say...a fictitious one?

 

[PhotoJones]

I just find it funny that the people who claim liberals are control happy seem to overlook illegal wiretapping and censorship and civil rights violations that the conservatives specialize in. That's more about government control then anything a Democrat says.

 

[Figs]

I just find it funny that the people who claim liberals are control happy seem to overlook illegal wiretapping and censorship and civil rights violations that the conservatives specialize in. That's more about government control then anything a Democrat says.

I don't agree with wiretapping or censorship either. I guess im bi partisan, don't care for conservatives or liberals all that much. There are good things and bad things to both sides, wether it's Repub, Democrat or Liberal. With my opinions I could never really side fully with one group.

 

[Carcharodon]

I don't agree with wiretapping or censorship either. I guess im bi partisan, don't care for conservatives or liberals all that much. There are good things and bad things to both sides, wether it's Repub, Democrat or Liberal. With my opinions I could never really side fully with one group.

Nobody could. That's the problem with the entire bipartisan system.

 

[PhotoJones]

I don't agree with wiretapping or censorship either. I guess im bi partisan, don't care for conservatives or liberals all that much. There are good things and bad things to both sides, wether it's Repub, Democrat or Liberal. With my opinions I could never really side fully with one group.

I also find it funny that many conservatives explain themselves by saying that they don't side with either party, yet they always vote Republican on everything.