Election Day Bonus Post

For those of you who don’t like me talking about politics (Shawn), go ahead and skip this one.

First of all, despite some reservations, I’m voting for Obama.  Because Scott Adams told me to.

Here in California, there are twelve ballot initiatives to vote on.  (Surprisingly, not a record number.)  I find Prop 8 the most confusing:

“Do you want to allow gays to marry?”

“Yes!”

“Then vote no!”

“Huh?”

And Gavin Newsom has got to be kicking himself over his choice of words.  First of all, telling Americans something will happen “whether you like it or not” virtually guarantees they won’t like it.  Worse, when you hear it out of context in a radio ad, he sounds deranged.  Actually, he sounds like he’s engaged in gay sex at the time of the quote.

Okay, enough of that nonsense.  You don’t care what I think about politics anyway.  On to…

THE POLITICAL QUOTES QUIZ

Here’s some famous political quotes. See if you can guess who said them. (Answers to follow the closing of the polls.)

1. Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others.
   Mark Twain
   Winston Churchill
   Queen Elizabeth II
   Ronald Reagan
2. I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
   William F. Buckley, Jr.
   John Adams
   Aldous Huxley
   Franklin Roosevelt
3. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
   Margaret Thatcher
   Marie-Antoinette
   Karl Marx
   George Orwell
4. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
   Karl Marx
   Joseph Stalin
   Vladimir Lenin
   Boris Spassky
5. Humor is reason gone mad.
   Groucho Marx
   James Stockdale
   John Lennon
   Bobby Fischer
6. The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
   Alexis de Tocqueville
   John Locke
   Niccolò Machiavelli
   Immanuel Kant
7. Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
   Socrates
   Sun Tzu
   Plato
   Aristotle
8. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
   Albert Einstein
   Mark Twain
   Thomas Jefferson
   Aesop
9. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation.
   Thomas Jefferson
   George Washington
   Nikita Krushchev
   Nelson Mandella
10. Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
    Bill Clinton
    John F. Kennedy
    Ronald Reagan
    George Bush Sr.
11. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
    John F. Kennedy
    Thurgood Marshall
    P.J. O’Rourke
    Noam Chomsky
12. A free society is a place where it’s safe to be unpopular.
    Adlai Stevenson
    Mohandas Gandhi
    Hillary Clinton
    Dan Quayle
13. Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    Robert Kennedy
    Abraham Lincoln
    Jean-Jacques Rousseu
14. The layman’s constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn’t like is unconstitutional.
    Hugo Black
    William Rehnquist
    Sandra Day O’Connor
    Antonin Scalia
15. The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
    Herny Ward Beecher
    C. S. Lewis
    Benjamin Franklin
    Ayn Rand

Bonus Quiz!
Name the five members of the Simpsons’ family. Now name the five rights guaranteed by the first amendment. Now try to justify why your vote should count as much as mine.