Let’s play “Guess That Politician!”
posted at 12:30 pm on February 12, 2008 by Bryan
It’s the game in which I give you the answers that a select politician gave during an interview, and you guess who the politician is. Are you ready? Well, let’s play!
First question: America has lost a lot of friends because President George W. Bush angered, indeed outraged, them. He allowed human rights to be violated at Guantanamo Bay, and he dismissed the joint effort to combat global warming. Under a President [Myster Politician}, could we expect a change of course?
Mystery Politician: Yes. I would announce that we are not ever going to torture anyone held in American custody. I would announce that we were closing Guantanamo Bay and moving those prisoners to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and I would announce a commitment to addressing climate change and my dedication to a global agreement — but it has to include India and China.
Answer: A) Hillary Clinton; B) John Edwards; C) John McCain; D) Ron Paul
Second Question: Will America attempt to go it alone less frequently in the future?
Mystery Politician: Well, we all hope that America will be multilateral again in the future. There were times when the United States acted unilaterally, but I think we would all prefer to work in concert with our friends and allies.
Answer: A) Barack Obama; B) Hillary Clinton; C) Mike Huckabee; D) John McCain
Third Question: So is America coming back to renegotiate the Kyoto Protocol?
Mystery Politician: I believe America is going to enter into negotiations to try to reach a global agreement. But, as I said, that agreement must include India and China, two of the emerging economies of the world. We would be foolish not to do so.
Answer: A) Al Gore; B) John McCain; C) Dennis Kucinich; D) Hillary Clinton
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I say:
#1 = C.
#2 = C.
#3 = D.
Onager on February 12, 2008 at 12:34 PM
I would have guess all of the above.
Kini on February 12, 2008 at 12:35 PM
1: McCain
2: McCain
3. Also McCain
You provided one link, and McCain is the only recurring answer. Your first mystery answer also included the word “I,” and did not include enough venom towards George W. Bush to be Hillary Clinton or Barry O, nor did it use Paul’s favorite buzzword “Constitution.”
BKennedy on February 12, 2008 at 12:35 PM
d
b
b
kcd on February 12, 2008 at 12:35 PM
C,D,B?
threeCents on February 12, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Well, under “other” leadership we would probably have the jihadists enforcing the Kyoto agreements from their tax-payer funded resort on Maui, while working with our friends from Hezbollah to assure wordl-wide sharia, except of course for said “leadership” who would get special dispensation.
bbz123 on February 12, 2008 at 12:37 PM
It was easy just based on how the answers were phrased.
threeCents on February 12, 2008 at 12:38 PM
YAY!!!! I got a hundred!
New Question:
What gives off more carbon emissions?
a) All the plants in Detroit.
b) McShamnesty’s Mouth
malan89 on February 12, 2008 at 12:38 PM
It’s given away with the way the first question is phrased.
amerpundit on February 12, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Bit of a giveaway that the first question mentions a President McCain…
JamesP on February 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM
They’re all McCain. The first question says “Under a President McCain”…
amkun on February 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM
I think this is your first clue. Then again, I’m not an illiterate teacher, so I may be way off base here.
James on February 12, 2008 at 12:41 PM
I’m not overly angered by second answer.
As someone else said, we’ll act with others if possible, alone if necessary.
amerpundit on February 12, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Yeah, I’m going to say 1)C, 2)D, 3)B
Only because Bryan seems a bit “McCain Deranged” these days ;-)
JetBoy on February 12, 2008 at 12:41 PM
This wasn’t a test, it was just giving of the facts. I feel like a cheated on a test even though I already knew the answers!
upinak on February 12, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Even before answering a single question, I knew I was not going to like how it ended. I mean, this guy is the worst compromise for conservatism.
regal on February 12, 2008 at 12:43 PM
C,D,B…..too depressing to contemplate.
Mallard T. Drake on February 12, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Well… they’re not what we didn’t expect.
I’m not really sure about waterboarding and Guatanamo. It seems that it would be better to use both, but I’m no military leader. Perhaps McCain *might* be right?
Besides, I’m happy that he won’t do a global warming argeement without getting India and China involved. That’s better than most Democrats.
Also, of course we want to work with our allies. There’s nothing wrong with saying that.
Perhaps we need to begin rallying around McCain and cut the b****ing short.
doodleduh on February 12, 2008 at 12:44 PM
1-C
2-B
3-B
LimeyGeek on February 12, 2008 at 12:45 PM
I scored Zero. I thought Nancy Pelosi said all those things.
RushBaby on February 12, 2008 at 12:45 PM
66% In my defence, (2) was a close call
LimeyGeek on February 12, 2008 at 12:46 PM
This despicable troll will destroy our country. Better a Dhimmicrat whom the craven pubbies might oppose than a Republican that they will support.
Charles Martel on February 12, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Isn’t the weather depressing enough? Thanks Bryan.
oakpack on February 12, 2008 at 12:49 PM
***Looks at dood***
Ever had a older sibling/friend pick on you and pour water in your face? Did you die? Nope, but you sure didn’t like it.
Not think of it this way…. Beer Bong. If it was beer and you had a hose or just someone pouring over your face as a “test of man hood/college” would you complain then?
I do not want these people in my back yard. Keep the at gitmo.
upinak on February 12, 2008 at 12:49 PM
This is the sort of thing that will make McCain more appealing in the general, and is makes less of distinction between himself and Obama on these issues. This and making Obama seems like the choice of the vapid, ignorant, and easily impressed immature voter could be to McCain’s advantage. He hasa so few. So lets keep up the conservarives against McCain stuff.
Theworldisnotenough on February 12, 2008 at 12:51 PM
1 c
2 d
3 b
All McCain.
Geronimo on February 12, 2008 at 12:51 PM
You’re a dirty McCain hater… but that was funny :)
Dash on February 12, 2008 at 12:51 PM
B
D
S
no?
C
D
B
Limerick on February 12, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Unfortunately, I got 100%. Very depressing but proves that all the talk about his conservative creds are nothing but a facade.
highhopes on February 12, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Upinak, I know that it seems that waterboarding should be used. I’ve always thought that. I’m just saying that, since we’re not military leaders, there is a chance that it might have strategic drawbacks later on that we are not thinking of.
I’m just saying I’m open-minded on the issue.
doodleduh on February 12, 2008 at 12:52 PM
I win….send my HotAir mug to….
Limerick on February 12, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Cool, I got them all right. Sweet, I mean, Ugh McCain.
Geronimo on February 12, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Republicans don’t beat Democrats by being more Democrat than the Democrats. He won’t stand a chance in the general election by selling this pile of crap and bad-mouthing America in foreign media outlets.
highhopes on February 12, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Well, surely they’re all McCain. At least I’m sure that’s the point.
However in fairness on the whole global warming nonsense front, as long as he keeps insisting on India and China it’s a dead issue. I know he’s bought in and it sucks, but China in particular has a tiger by the tail.
Fact that none of these boobs seems to get is that if there were some sort of real alternative to oil, we’d be using it. So would China. But what the ancient Coomunists of China have got is a population that they’ve made a deal with: They can stay in power as long as the economy grows.
Not happening cutting back “greenhouse gasses” boys and girls. Not. Even. Happening.
So talk. Create a big noise and sound and fury and acomplish nothing until the climate begins to cool, then indict Al Gore for crimes against humanity for scaring the world
shiwitless.The sad thing is that on my list of wishes for the fall was that the Republican candidate could turn to the Dem in debate and ask him why it was “playing to fear” to want to be prepared to battle an enemy that has attacked us and sworn to kill us, but not playing to fear the demagogue that we change our entire economy and way of life over a handful of computer models.
Typhoon on February 12, 2008 at 12:54 PM
The problem with all these answers? McCain accepts the premise behind all of them (America sucks).
Hard to muster a rallying feeling behind a man who, while running for President, seems to have no instinct for defending the honor and goodness of America.
RushBaby on February 12, 2008 at 12:55 PM
_
For real.
_
In the immortal words of Vincent LaGuardia Gambini:
” Think. I Get. The Point.”
SlimyBill on February 12, 2008 at 12:55 PM
You may not agree with him, but which of us would support the torture of prisoners having endured 4 years of torture ourselves at the hands of the Viet Cong? McCains position there is consistent with her ethics and personal experience and is not a pander to the left.
My question is where does effective interrogation techniques end and torture begin?
DrW on February 12, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Highhopes, I fear that what you’ve said isn’t quite true. McCain has a btter chance of winning by appealing to the center. I’m not saying he should, but playing only to the right is not how you win an election.
doodleduh on February 12, 2008 at 12:57 PM
_
WHAT craven pubbies? Al Franken leads some polls in Minnesota, for heaven’s sake.
SlimyBill on February 12, 2008 at 12:59 PM
I like the idea of this post Bryan but I don’t like this game, it scares the daylights out of me. :(
abinitioadinfinitum on February 12, 2008 at 12:59 PM
All McCain, and I don’t to google it. He SHOULD have responded “I disagree with the premise of that question in regards to ” and THEN answered the q’s.
JustTruth101 on February 12, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Hmm…I see the point of this post. You know we’re in trouble when people can mistake the words of the so-called Conservative Candidate for the words of Hillary Clinton…
mattyj86 on February 12, 2008 at 12:59 PM
McCain, Clinton, McCain. Now let me go see how bad I did…
flipflop on February 12, 2008 at 1:00 PM
*ack*
flipflop on February 12, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Since when is highlighting serious and legitimate policy differences evidence of “derangement?”
Bryan on February 12, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Depends on what you mean by Military leaders?
Aren’t these the same “Leaders” who think it is great to let our Soldiers and Marines sit in Iraq and Afgahnistan as well as other posts, bases etc. and do another job other then the one they were trained to do? I know quite a few of my friends who are over there are annoyed, but can’t complain about it.
Yeah… interesting.
upinak on February 12, 2008 at 1:05 PM
SINCE YOU QUESTIONED MCCAIN’S PATRIOTISM BRYAN! HE WAS IN VIETNAM, DON’T YOU KNOW!
/McTroll
BKennedy on February 12, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Since McCain became the frontrunner.
Sincerely,
McCain Supporters
thirteen28 on February 12, 2008 at 1:05 PM
I’m going to go out on a limb and say McCain for all three and the presumably “correct” answers would be:
1) Nuke the world, torture the survivors mercilessly,
2) Nuke the world, torture the survivors mercilessly,
and
3) (Well, I have to agree that I’m not so hot on McCain’s position on that one, so I don’t have a smartassed answer.)
My Score: 100%!
Now, how did I know….?
Hiney Von Pewps on February 12, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Haha! It’s “semi-psychotic” according to Dorothy Rabinowitz (WSJ)!
RushBaby on February 12, 2008 at 1:10 PM
That first quote should have been used by Mitt.
Buy Danish on February 12, 2008 at 1:10 PM
second look at a brokered convention?
liquidflorian on February 12, 2008 at 1:11 PM
I have McCain derangement syndrome and am proud of it and kind of enjoy it. At least until he looses the election.
abinitioadinfinitum on February 12, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Heh. That’s about right.
Bryan on February 12, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Who do most of the people on this site support between McCain and Huckabee? It seems that McCain is the more rational choic between the two, but all these comments leave me wondering.
Who do you support?
doodleduh on February 12, 2008 at 1:14 PM
I support neither. I do not vote Democrat.
EnochCain on February 12, 2008 at 1:16 PM
I’m a Conservative before I’m a Republican. The two candidates you mentioned are Republicans, but not Conservatives. Therefore, I don’t have a candidate to support in this election.
RushBaby on February 12, 2008 at 1:19 PM
If you read through the interviewer questions, you get the impression that they get their american news from watching Keith Olberloon.
wildweasel on February 12, 2008 at 1:20 PM
C- McCain’t
B- Ms. Slick Clinton
A- Algore
Based upon their tasteless and arrogant answers, and the nature of each question to the ‘mystery’ politician, and with no googling.
localmalcontent on February 12, 2008 at 1:20 PM
1. D
2. C
3. B
And the verdict is… 1/3! Heh. To tell you the truth, I just guessed wildly, as pretty much any of those listed could have given any of those answers. Which I do believe was the point!
Seixon on February 12, 2008 at 1:23 PM
I support a decision by the DNC to validate the Florida and Michigan Democratic delegates.
a capella on February 12, 2008 at 1:24 PM
It’s worse than I’d expected–
localmalcontent on February 12, 2008 at 1:24 PM
c-McCain
c-Huckabee
b-McCain
mycowardice on February 12, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Yup. And McCain never even challenges the premises of any of those slanted questions. To me, that’s worse than his answers by themselves.
Bryan on February 12, 2008 at 1:25 PM
I can’t remember wanting to be wrong as much as I did just now, during this little test.
Just the Gitmo issue is devastating.
We’re in deep doodoo. Terrorists in Kansas…with Toto?
Say it ain’t so Dorothy.
Are we gonna give them all trials, DURING A WAR? How many billions of dollars and thousands of court hours?
What will this do to our efforts overseas now? Turn our soldiers into international police on the streets?
.
I’m beginning to believe McCain is suffering from PTSD from his prisoner of war years. He is deluded in thought and speaking out of total fear, not intellectually. He’s lost touch with reality in this area.
shooter on February 12, 2008 at 1:28 PM
First they called the Tancredo supporters deranged, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Tancredo supporter.
Then they called the Hunter supporters deranged, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Hunter supporter.
Then they called the Fredheads deranged, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Fredhead.
Then they called the Mittens deranged, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Mitten.
Then they called me deranged, and by that time, there was no one left to speak up…
MadisonConservative on February 12, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Right. No way he’d be part of something like the recent attempt to get a 50-cent gas tax (amongst other “green” energy-reducing initiatives). What was that called again? Oh yeah, McCain-Lieberman.
Yep, no way McCain would take part in something like that McCain-Lieberman bill; odd naming for that bill though. Who were the sponsors, and why did they try to smear McCain by attaching his name to it?
gekkobear on February 12, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Is doing thing multilateral when possible bad?
frankj on February 12, 2008 at 1:31 PM
OK…but look at McCain’s answers (given to a European mag, remember) and look at the nuance:
I would announce that we are not ever going to torture anyone held in American custody.
We don’t “torture” anybody now …so what’s the difference?
Well, we all hope that America will be multilateral again in the future. There were times when the United States acted unilaterally, but I think we would all prefer to work in concert with our friends and allies.
And, we do hope that we can get the rest of the world behind us…but McCain makes it perfectly clear: that we would act unilaterally, as we have in the past, but we’d “prefer” other nations back us.
I believe America is going to enter into negotiations to try to reach a global agreement. But, as I said, that agreement must include India and China, two of the emerging economies of the world. We would be foolish not to do so.
Note: McCain never says he’ll return to Kyoto Protocol. As a matter of fact, he cleary believes Kyoto is bad, since it doesn’t include nations like China and India. We really don’t know what this “global agreement” is.
JetBoy on February 12, 2008 at 1:34 PM
That brought a tear to this Fredhead’s eye….ain’t it the truth!
ihasurnominashun on February 12, 2008 at 1:34 PM
3 for 3!
Guessed McCain every time.
NoFanofLibs on February 12, 2008 at 1:35 PM
C
B
A
Crap, this is even worse than I thought.
Plus, he learned his lesson about Amnesty, which is why he has Hernandez on staff. And yet I’m supposed to believe his picks for SCOTUS would be better than Hillary’s. Okay…
sloopy on February 12, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Does that mean that if there is no brokered convention, and McCain ends up being the Republican candidate, that you, and like kind, will sell the whole country down the river because McCain is not a ‘true conservative’?
What differentiates you, and your kind, from the KOS folks or the MoveOn.org folks?
You can’t have your way, therefore you want everyone to get screwed. It won’t be for just 4 or 8 years, pal. How many years were the Dem Cong in power, before the republicans? They’re back in power now, just waiting to get a socialist prez to help make a sharp left-turn for the country that may not ever be straightened out.
I hope you, your children, your grand-children and their children can live with the consequences of your decision!
belad on February 12, 2008 at 1:38 PM
HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A RACIST, YOU LIBERAL RINO GIRL!!!!!!!
[/mds]
Hiney Von Pewps on February 12, 2008 at 1:39 PM
Why is the magazine’s Europeaness relevant? McCain either does or doesn’t believe what he said.
Bryan on February 12, 2008 at 1:39 PM
You operate on fear. We do not. You will accept the least worst candidate, while we wait on a good one. You are scared because you have no faith or hope. We aren’t, because we do.
MadisonConservative on February 12, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Oh for crissakes. Can’t the bozo even make the pretense of sounding like a conservative Republican once and a while.
Note that it was a foreign press source he was pandering to this time. God help us if he keeps this up, Hillary might even start looking good.
rick moran on February 12, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Yeah, McCain thinks America sucks. Uh huh.
And those military prison guards at Ft. Leavenworth are all pussies, so moving those schmucks there is a terrible, unconscionable idea.
Strangely enough, my husband and the other military guys I’ve talked to agree with McCain on the torture thing too. Yeah, they know that what the enemy has in store for them if they are captured is a million times worse than anything the IRC wants to scream “torture” about if we do it, but they really aren’t all that in love with waterboarding as an essential tool in their interrogation toolkit.
I dunno about the CIA, but based on their effectiveness lately, perhaps they don’t need to be able to do much of anything.
funky chicken on February 12, 2008 at 1:46 PM
I’m sure that President Obama’s answers to those questions will make you feel much better guys.
Keep up the good work! Obama in 2008!
funky chicken on February 12, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Koh for SCOTUS!
funky chicken on February 12, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Edwards
McCain
McCain
RW Wacko on February 12, 2008 at 1:50 PM
oh, good grief, I was hoping I was wrong guessing McCain on #2, but no way did I think that was McCain on the first one. Geez. Will the real John McCain please stand up?
RW Wacko on February 12, 2008 at 1:51 PM
I don’t act on fear. I act on the proclamations of the democrats. One is a socialist, the other is a marxist. The democrats in the house and senate will still have a majority in 2009. One of the first things they will enact is a tax increase. In other words, they will lawfully stick their hand into my pocket and take my money and give it to someone else. I am tired of it. I am also tired of group politics, something the conservatives have a long history in. Instead of making changes in the Republican party during the off-season, they use the ‘squeeze play’ during the election cycle to get their way, without ever looking at the bigger picture and the consequences of their actions. Its always about ‘me’, just like the left-nut liberals.
belad on February 12, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Because it is a European magazine…for a European audience. McCain isn’t giving any different answers than he would to the same questions asked by, say, a TIME magazine reporter…he’s just being nuanced.
Like I said above, McCain made it clear: We don’t torture, Kyoto is out, and it would be nice if the US didn’t have to act unilaterally, but we’ve done it before.
I just don’t understand what’s wrong with those answers…
JetBoy on February 12, 2008 at 1:53 PM
I’ll let that sink in. You’re more worried about your paycheck than you are of someone with no regard for the first two amendments, no interest in extracting all possible information from captured terrorists, and someone who…by the way…will raise your taxes too.
But hey, I’m just going by his record and what he says. Guess I’m just deranged doing that.
MadisonConservative on February 12, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Protect the unborn! Elect Obama!
Change you can believe in….bring back partial birth abortion!
funky chicken on February 12, 2008 at 1:56 PM
That was way too easy.
awake on February 12, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Some fear-free planks in the anti-McCain campaign:
1) We cannot support a candidate who will not torture because any suspected terrorist in custody may have information linked to a “ticking time bomb” plot. Renouncing torture is tantamount to nuking a city.
2) Illegal immigration is an “invasion” organized by shadowy terrorist groups such as MeCHA. MS-13 is representative of illegal immigrants. There is an “Open Borders Lobby” which seeks to dissolve the borders between the U.S., Canada and Mexico and merge the three into a single superstate in the model of the European Union under a single flag and currency. (optional) This plot is proceeding at the behest of a global elite who’s aim is to bring the earth under a single government which monitors it’s subjects through subcutaneous RFID chips.
3) A raft of made-up nonsense; McCain is going to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine, McCain is anti-life, McCain supports gay marriage. etc…
4) The fear (which has by now completely lost it’s bite as far as I can tell) of being excommunicated from “real conservativism” and relegated to the status of “RINO” by anti-McCain tweakers.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 12, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Fantastic hyperbole. They’d love you at DU.
MadisonConservative on February 12, 2008 at 2:02 PM
Support defunding the troops! Elect Obama!
funky chicken on February 12, 2008 at 2:04 PM
I’m trying to fit the motif established here.
You mean that “first they came for Tancredo” sililoque wasn’t meant as parody?
Hiney Von Pewps on February 12, 2008 at 2:05 PM
I suppose that you are also OK with three new liberal supreme court justices, that we will have to live with for at least the next 20 years.
Why would you be concerned about extracting information from terrorist? There won’t be a war on terror or much of a military if Obama-lama-ding-dong or the hildabeast is elected. Those efforts will be cancelled, so there won’t be much need to water-board anyone anyway. Besides the Dem Cong prez will make water-boarding outlawed. So I guess that part of your argument is moot.
It really still comes down to the ‘me’ part of the equation.
Its your way, or the highway.
belad on February 12, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Every time I reconcile myself to joining his team he sends me a “Wrong place. Wrong time. Wrong team.” message.
Dusty on February 12, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Rush is on this right now.
Big Orange on February 12, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Caption contest for the picture at the link!
My entry:
“In an effort to prove his conservative bona fides, candidate John McCain has begun campaigning with an American flag attached to the side of his head.”
iurockhead on February 12, 2008 at 2:14 PM
The weird thing is that this white-knuckled grip on their position on waterboarding, even waterboarding as accepted as torture, comes from an unwillingness to conceed errors made by the administration.
But that administration, Bush, Gonzalez, etc., have long since become the “liberal” “RINO” “Open Boders Lobby” enemy.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 12, 2008 at 2:16 PM
You sound kind of mad there, belad, and I’m not really sure why. Me and “my kind” seem alien to you, and you are going along with your group who is doing its best to alienate us further. If your goal is to prevent the country from taking a sharp left turn, then I submit to you that there is one way to do it, and that’s with Conservative leadership. The Republican party has stubbornly refused to contemplate that proven winning strategy, and John McCain has connived his way into being your presumptive nominee, with the help of the disloyal Governor Crist among others.
So who’s really selling the country down the river, pal?
RushBaby on February 12, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Anybody who enables the victory of the Obamassiah is selling the country down the river.
funky chicken on February 12, 2008 at 2:21 PM
I thought #1 was Hillary, not so much because of the quote, but because of your typo “President [Myster Politician}”
AverageJoe on February 12, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Perfectly said. Thank you for making my point in such a succinct manner.
RushBaby on February 12, 2008 at 2:24 PM
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