Foreign Policy:
1. Have you ever spoken to a person who is not an American?
2. Have you ever been out of the country?
3. Have you looked at this picture?
The Bush Doctrine
Two main pillars are identified for the doctrine: preemptive strikes against potential enemies and promoting democratic regime change.1
4. Do you know what the Bush Doctrine is?
American History
5. Do you know that the Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 (bonus points if you know it was written by a socialist)?
6. Do you know that the phrase “under God” was added in 1954?
Energy
7. Do you have a degree that is in any way relevant to energy?
8. Do you know that Alaska accounts for 3.5% of America’s energy output?2
9. Do you know that Alaska accounts for 14% of American oil production? 2,3
Climate Change
10. Do you understand, in general terms, that co2 is a greenhouse gas that left unchecked will have a negative impact on our climate and accept that there is a consensus among qualified scientists that global warming is happening and man made?
Science
11. Do you know that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old?
12. Do you accept evolution as the accepted only accepted scientific theory that explains how our species came to exist?
13. Do you know the scientific method?
14. Do you understand that abstinence only education fails?
Other
15. Have you ever left a town a town twenty million dollars in debt? 4
16. Do you frequently end sentences with “don’tcha know”?
Answer sheet.
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- No
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If you scored 2 or higher than you most likely are more Qualified than Sarah Palin
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine#Overview
2. http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/energetically_wrong.html
3. http://nearing.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/16/1874725-roy-blunt-r-mo-made-the-false-claim-that-alaska-supplies-20-percent-of-the-us-oil-video
4. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12987.html
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