Play True or False with Politics

 

 

Bored with these endless primaries? Wishing it was over? Me too. Let’s play a game instead; guess which of the following statements are true, and which belong in the gutter.

 

1. At a 2001 White House Menorah lighting ceremony, Bush commented: “I couldn’t imagine somebody like Osama Bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah.”
2. Andrew Jackson was illiterate until the age of 17.
3. Abraham Lincoln stored important documents inside his hat.
4. Condoleeza Rice is extremely allergic to certain kinds of rubber.
5. In 2004, Bush told a group of Amish “God speaks through me, otherwise I don’t think I could do this job.”
6. Cheney reportedly likes to listen to the Doors while he’s driving.
7. Grover Cleveland proposed to his wife Frances by mail; she turned him down three times before she finally said yes.
8. In May of 2006, the Press Secretary Tony Snow was approached by Hanes to shoot an underwear commercial; he respectfully declined.
9. Bush’s reaction to winning his first Presidential election was to say: “They misunderestimated me.”
10. John McCain belongs to a very small percentage of the Caucasian population that is naturally immune to Chicken Pox, due to a minor genetic mutation.
11. Inhabitants of Kentucky are required by law to bathe at least once a year.
12. Before Bush jr. announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination, his mother Barbara tried to talk him out of it.
13. On average, Republican Presidents change their ties less often than Democratic ones.
14. Only four Presidents in the history of the U.S. have been known to be proficient at riding a bicycle: Polk, Jackson, Kennedy, and Carter.