Help select the questions asked at the town hall debate

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Wednesday September 28, 2016 · 9:09 AM PDT

2016/09/28 · 09:09

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere already, but I wanted to make sure everyone knew they can vote to help determine which questions will be asked at the next Presidential debate (the town hall). Here’s the link:

presidentialopenquestions.com

As stated on the website, “ABC and CNN moderators agreed to consider the Top 30 questions voted up on this site.” There seems to be a heavy tilt towards Trumper-inspired questions (currently the highest-voted question relates to ‘protecting’ the 2nd amendment)...

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Thursday July 19, 2012 · 3:40 PM PDT

2012/07/19 · 15:40

Are you a REAL conservative? Do you have what it takes to join Mitt’s Minions? Take this quiz and find out!

Section I. - Economics
1.) Draw lines to connect the answers on the right with the policy on the left:
Mandatory auto insurance sensible way to protect against random misfortune
Mandatory mortgage insurance protects individuals, society from burdensome costs
Mandatory healthcare insurance Socialism!

Section II. - Communication Skills
2.) Select the correct word or phrase in the sentence below. Answers may not be used more than once
Word bank: hypocritical ♦ tax ♦ poop on ♦ totally cool ♦ speak for the commoners
It is _ of Barack Obama to throw expensive fundraisers where he talks about wanting to _ the rich; it is __ for Mitt Romney to host expensive fundraisers where he claims to _.

Section III. - Ancient History
3.) Which answer or answers best describe the condition of the United States when Barack Obama took office after 8 years of old What’s-His-Name.
_ Hobbled by the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression
_ Saddled with two expensive, bloody and ill-managed wars
_ Reeling from the collapse of a casino-like financial industry and an unregulated banking system run amuck
_ Threatened with the prospect of losing millions of additional auto industry jobs
_ Like I can remember 41 months ago!

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Monday July 02, 2012 · 11:45 AM PDT

2012/07/02 · 11:45

Friends,

As you are undoubtedly aware, recently the Supreme Court--led by Bush appointee Chief Justice Roberts--ruled Obamacare as Constitutional. FREEDOM IS UNDER ATTACK!

Most of us are legally compelled to carry auto, mortgage, and professional insurance policies; now a stratospheric 6% of the adult population will be forced to purchase healthcare insurance with crushing penalties of up to $95 in 2014. LIBERTY IS UNDER SIEGE!

Fellow citizens, this is the greatest injustice wrought on the American people since the War of Northern Aggression. Our only recourse is to elect Mitt Romney in November so we can repeal this hideous, un-American bill first conceived by the conservative Heritage Foundation. DEMOCRACY IS UNDER FIRE!

Dizzy

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Wednesday July 15, 2009 · 3:32 PM PDT

2009/07/15 · 15:32

In one of the most exciting moments of last night's MLB All-Star Game, President Obama threw out the 1st pitch, the first President to do so at an ASG since Gerald Ford. It was a great moment for Obama supporters (and especially White Sox fans like myself). While his form wasn't great, he got it to the plate and didn't embarass himself as other's have done before.

It should be no surprise however that certain wingers flipped out. The jealousy just drips out of their voices and columns. Take Andy McCarthy, wanker du jour of the NRO. Never mind that his guy was a freaking cheerleader--you know, the masculine type that sits on the sidelines with pom-poms and yells things like 'Push 'em back, Push 'em back, Push 'em back team!' before kicking his arms and legs in the air...no, McCarthy fixates on whether Obama bounced his pitch at the plate. I feel slimy for doing so, but here is the link.

Dizzy

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Tuesday April 14, 2009 · 9:13 PM PDT

2009/04/14 · 21:13

I can't even begin to fathom how many times I've had a variant of this conversation: I'm speaking to someone I've just met from out of state or another country, and they ask me where I'm from. I sheepishly admit that I'm from Texas, but just a microsecond before adding "But I've lived in Austin for the last twenty years, which doesn't really count." Most people laugh, but it is true. We are a tiny sane dot of blue amidst a frothing red sea of dead-end wingers.

And it is getting worse. As one might expect from an ex-Aggie yell leader (to the uninformed, yell leaders are male cheerleaders laden with a veritable closet full of repressed homosexual overtones who perform for the militaristic, traditionally all-male Texas A&M), Governor Goodhair Perry has decided to lead the Republican broken-record obstructionist chorus.

Dizzy

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Sunday March 01, 2009 · 8:40 PM PST

2009/03/01 · 20:40

(The following is excerpted from the Q&A session after a private speech given by Rush Limbaugh at CPAC this past week)

Limbaugh: ...So yes, I do prefer underage Haitian prostitutes to underage Dominican prostitutes. Anyone else?

(Man who is hiding his identity by wearing a diaper over his head)
Anonymous Questioner: Do you have tips how I may be able to, uh, perform, if my Viagra stash is impounded by customs?

Limbaugh: I find picturing Ronald Reagan nude does the trick, Senator Vitter. I mean anonymous questioner. Next question.

(Calls on man who looks suspiciously like Rick Santorum in Groucho-Marx style nose glasses)
Incognito Ricky: Hey Rush, megadittoes. Like yourself and all other true Republicans, I hope that Obama and the Democrat (sic) congress fails and by this time next year the Dow sinks to 267 5/8ths, unemployment stands at 67%, and killer robots run amuck through the nation. Truly that will be a great day for this country. Can you share with us some of your personal greatest moments in American history?

Dizzy

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Wednesday November 12, 2008 · 11:03 AM PST

2008/11/12 · 11:03

Picture this: It is a hot August 11th, 2006, and after successful stints as a Congressman, Governor, and Senator, your whole political life lies ahead of you. You exit your gleaming campaign bus dressed assiduously casual in jeans and a blue shirt with the sleeves rolled up, the rest of your retinue wearing the dark power suit/bright power tie combination popular with Important D.C. Advisors and Secret Service agents (you have plenty of the former; the latter will come, you are sure, in just a little over 24 months). You walk and shake hands and pose for pictures and spit streams of Red Man into a Dixie cup (a Dixie cup!) with that rare ease of a Republican palatable to the Look-at-the-Cultural-Abominations-in-my-Father’s-Country crowd while simultaneously held trustworthy by the Pharisee moneylenders in temple Wall Street. You offer platitudes and homilies and—most importantly—the vague but unflaggingly sunny optimism of the man you have perfected the practice of political necrophilia upon, Ronald Reagan, dry-humping the talismanic crucifix of St. Ronnie the Liberal Slayer like a repressed Catholic schoolgirl in order to bring your adoring crowds to climax. (Look Wherlene, his cheeks are even blushed red just like Reagan’s!)

Dizzy

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 8:26 AM PDT

2008/09/05 · 08:26

For those who spent the last four evenings engaged in more productive endeavors than watching the GOP convention, self-flagellation perhaps, or reorganizing your betamax movie collection, below is a handy-dandy Cliff Notes guide to what you missed.

John McCain was a POW.

Even in the halls of Gooperville George W. Bush is the fart in the elevator...no one will claim him, everyone moves away from his stink.

Due to the abbreviated schedule, Wednesday became 'Mock Community Organizer Day,' and Thursday was spent ridiculing teachers and union members. Unfortunately the anti-Kitten, ice cream, and adorable toddler jihad was postponed until 2012.

The urban legend claiming that any person who endured the entirety of Fred Thompson's speech will die within 24 hours of viewing it can not be disproven as no one did.

John McCain was a POW.

Who is this 'Vice President Cheney' you speak of?

Mitt Romney's hair had a bad person day.

Marge Gunderson + Tracy Flick = Sarah Palin

Dizzy

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Tuesday July 15, 2008 · 10:48 AM PDT

2008/07/15 · 10:48

Ed. Note: I wrote this last night only to see someone had already published a 'Welcome to Austin' diary when I got around to publishing mine today, which just proves:
a. It's not good to be a slacker
b. I am a slacker
c. Austin is home to slackers
d. I am therefore more Austintacious than the aforementioned diarist (who has some great and actually useful info, btw)

On that note...

Sure, you've seen Slacker twelve times, you've played the bongos naked with Matthew McConaughey and you've burned a joint with the Dell Dude, but as a native Austinite (legally defined as a resident of the city for six or more years) I wanted to give a great big 'Howdy, Y'all' to everyone headed our way and offer a few insider tips on how to fully enjoy your stay in the Live Music (and Dead Turn Signal) Capital of the World.

Dizzy

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Wednesday June 04, 2008 · 1:59 PM PDT

2008/06/04 · 13:59

President Asshat,

After seven and a half years of searching in vain for any kind of silver lining to the unrelenting cloud of crapulence you have wrought upon this country, I think I have found one. George, you nitwit, you sociopathic miscreant, when in a few short months the United States of America elects a progressive African-American Democrat--or through your eyes, a liberal black with a Muslim-sounding name--it will be in large part thanks to you.

Dizzy

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Tuesday September 11, 2007 · 12:38 PM PDT

2007/09/11 · 12:38

I have to admit that when I am on the site, no matter what great diaries are on the front page or rec lists, no matter if C&J is up or there are any of the continuing articles from bonddad, Jerome a Paris, etc. that I read religiously, no matter what unfathomable Travesty-of-the-Day the Bushies have pulled off, if I see anything with 'pootie' in the title that is where I am going first. It is similar I imagine to getting a paper and reading the sports page or comics first, back in the old days when reading a newspaper wasn't a complete waste of time. I love all of PhillyGal's posts, and Irishwitch had a particularly poignant diary a few months ago that is unfortunately now hitting close to home.

Dizzy

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Monday April 16, 2007 · 11:14 AM PDT

2007/04/16 · 11:14

Sick. Just sick.

A White House spokesman said President Bush was horrified by the rampage and offered his prayers to the victims and the people of Virginia.

"The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed," spokeswoman Dana Perino said

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