US Political Scandals Quiz

How is Obama saying "you didn't build that" 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.

Nah BC, he's the leader of America. We have our own leader over here...

Dean's strange shout cost him the presidency that year. He was endlessly ridiculed and no longer became a serious option to voters. It was more than a "strange shout." Now...to EDUCATED people, he was just excited...but to people who actually vote, he sounded dumb.

Yes, a key part of education is the ability to properly differentiate between one's screaming sounding "dumb" (a charge no one made) and sounding "excited".

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

Well, considering I couldn't spell Akin, not spelling blago isn't so bad. I had same problem with Craig - I could remember the Larry, and first letter C, but that was it.

At least Marion Barry did give us one of the all time great quotes: "The bitch set me up". Comedy gold.

I missed Marion Barry because I spelled it Berry. I guess I was thinking of Chuck.

I'm missing the Iran-contra scandal, by far the biggest scandal every in US history.

Didn't Hamilton fire his shot straight up into the air? What Burr did next was not unheard of in dueling, but it definitely looks bad 200 years later.

Another politics quiz right here: GOP Presidential Candidates 2016

He can have his own quiz.

I tried typing idiot for Bill Clinton, but it didn't accept it.

Because it would be too easy if half of the quiz is filled by one word.

Seems like a short/incomplete list of all the scandals/stupidity that our political leaders have partaken. Some of them are so innumerable that it is hard to put just one name to them without attaching a year. Some even then would be innumerable (i.e. financial scandals, etc.) Numerous Presidents have enjoyed extramarital affairs. By extrapolation, probably hundreds of members of Congress have also. It's odd that JFK's Marilyn Monroe "affair" didn't get a mention here--as that is quite well versed.