US Political Scandals Quiz

It is a scandal if it causes a wild amount of controversy. When you tell millions of Americans who built their businesses with their own money and hard work, that they didn't do it themselves, then you cause a scandal.

Of course, he didn't actually say that; what he said is that you didn't build the infrastructure on which your business depends. To quote: "Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires. So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the G.I. Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam."

As usual, the line is taken out of context, but is it too much that the President chose more precise language and grammar, after all, he is the leader of the free world. Also, the binder full of women thing. A scandal for sure, but obviously not the actual intent of the comment.

How is Palin not naming a newspaper she read a scandal or Dean making a strange shout? This is either poorly titled or several "scandals" should be taken out.

In fact, Obama said you didn't build the street in front of your building. It's not a scandal. You seem to have overlooked Iran-Contra here.

Darn, couldn't spell Blagojevich. Remembered the scandal about Craig but couldn't recall his name... :\

How in the world is saying that you needed help to get where you are comparable to the Watergate scandal?

"Stupidity" is not the same as "scandal."

I think we're all in agreement. Cut out (a) the Romney dog incident, (b) the Palin interview with Katie Couric, (c) Cheney shooting that poor guy, (d) the Dean Scream, (e) Akin's idiotic comment, (f) Hart's dalliance with Rice on the "Monkey Business" and (g) Stevens' innocent misunderstanding of the internet, and replace them with (1) the Teapot Dome scandal, (2) the Whiskey Ring, (3) Boss Tweed's shenanigans, (4) the XYZ Affair [just to keep the number of 100% right answers down], (5) the Bridge to Nowhere, (6) the Checkers speech and (7) whatever it was that Bobby Baker did that got him in trouble. Makes the quiz harder, but draws the line between scandal and noise.