Intelligent Discontent

• Written by: Bob FunkApril 27th, 2008
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• Category:2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
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Hillary Clinton has a quiz featured on her campaign’s website that is nothing short of odd, shallow, and a bit confusing. The quiz features fourteen questions and every answer is “Barack Obama.” “Barack Obama’s chief strategist,” etc., excluding two answers - one which was Glenn Beck, the other was Tucker.

For example,

Who claimed Hillary Clinton has a secret 20-year plan to become president?

Who said Hillary Clinton is “making the run for the best actress nomination”?

Who said Hillary Clinton is “literally willing to do anything to win”?

The thing is that this quiz is almost laughable in character. Obviously, the intention of the quiz is to paint Obama as a Republican strategist, but the case is pretty weak when only 2 out of the 14 questions actually refer to Republican “strategists” - the quiz really just reasserts what the Obama campaign has said and is saying.

If anything, the quiz just serves as a megaphone for Obama’s rhetoric, while it fails to refute any of his claims.

I was shocked by the quiz, not so much because it is an odd attack on Obama, but simply just because of how odd it was, period. Just because you put Obama’s name next to a “Republican Playbook” graphic, doesn’t mean that I’m automatically going to assume the two are analogous. How dumb did the designer of this quiz think the people that visit Hillary’s site are?