SodaHead - PolyTicks's Questions

What do you think of the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene v. Bush?

2008-06-23T23:12:10Z

What do you think of the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene v. Bush?

4 answers, 0 raves

Read the story here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121400406620193453.html?mod=g...

It's a victory for the terrorists	100% (4 answers)
It's a victory for civil liberties	0% (0 answers)
It's no big deal	0% (0 answers)
None of the above	0% (0 answers)

When you were posting a new SodaHead poll, has the system tried to put it in an odd category (out of place)?

2008-06-17T20:31:20Z

When you were posting a new SodaHead poll, has the system tried to put it in an odd category (out of place)?

1 answers, 0 raves

If YES, please post your answer in the following format: POLL: "Is John McCain's age an issue for you?" URL: http://www.sodahead.com/question/102938/ MISMATCHED CATEGORY: Games > Video Games > Handheld PROPER CATEGORY: General Government > Politics & Law

Yes... Here's an example	100% (1 answers)
No, it always posts mine correctly	0% (0 answers)
I never paid attention to where my polls were posted	0% (0 answers)
I've never posted a poll on SodaHead	0% (0 answers)
None of the above	0% (0 answers)

Is McCain's age an issue for you?

2008-06-17T20:21:27Z

Is McCain's age an issue for you?

18 answers, 0 raves

Story here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/16/politics/politico/m...

No, I don't think it should be an issue	44% (8 answers)
Yes, I think he's too old to be President	22% (4 answers)
Yes, I think his age is an asset and will help him run the country better	17% (3 answers)
None of the above	17% (3 answers)

Vice President Dick Cheney recently told a joke stereotyping West Virginia as a state prone to incest. Was his comment offensive or funny?

2008-06-16T18:07:16Z

Vice President Dick Cheney recently told a joke stereotyping West Virginia as a state prone to incest. Was his comment offensive or funny?

6 answers, +1 raves

Source: The Washington Post http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/06/dick_cheneys_in... Vice President Dick Cheney has apologized through his spokeswoman for making an offhand joke during a speech at the National Press Club Monday stereotyping West Virginia as a state prone to incest.... Cheney's statement came after West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin added his voice to the chorus of outrage from Mountain State politicians (including WV Senators Jay Rockefeller and Robert Byrd) and demanded an apology from the veep.... Cheney was at the Press Club to congratulate this year's winners of the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. During a question-and-answer session toward the end of the luncheon, someone asked the vice president about his wife Lynne Cheney's revelation on MSNBC last year that "Dick and Barack Obama are eighth cousins." The questioner jokingly asked the vice president if he and Obama were going to have a family reunion, to which Cheney replied he would "have no objections" though he said he doubted Obama would want one - "certainly not before November." Then came the offensive punch line. Cheney explained that during the course of researching his family lineage for Lynne's memoir "Blue Skies, No Fences" last year, he learned there were Cheneys on both his father's and his mother's side of the family. There was a Richard Cheney on his mother's side, the vice president said. "So I had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don't even live in West Virginia," Cheney quipped.

It's so offensive that Cheney should be impeached.	33% (2 answers)
It's hilarious. West Virginians should get a sense of humor... and stop dating their sisters.	33% (2 answers)
It's offensive, but they should accept his apology.	17% (1 answers)
Undecided	17% (1 answers)
It's offensive, but funny... and maybe a little bit true.	0% (0 answers)

Which is the more distasteful comment: that Hitler was "doing God's work" or that he was "a very great man"?

2008-06-11T23:01:29Z

Which is the more distasteful comment: that Hitler was "doing God's work" or that he was "a very great man"?

20 answers, +1 raves

Recently, Pastor John Hagee was criticized by the GOP Presidential nominee John McCain for a comment that Hitler was "doing God's work." Black supremacist Louis Farrakhan, a political and spiritual leader who has been honored by Democrat nominee Barack Obama's church, said that Hitler was "a very great man." Obama has yet to denounce Farrakhan.

Both comments are equally repugnant and should be denounced	40% (8 answers)
Hagee's "Hitler was going God's work" is worse	25% (5 answers)
Undecided	20% (4 answers)
Farrakhan's "Hitler was a very great man" is worse	15% (3 answers)
Both comments were taken out of context and are both valid within their own context	0% (0 answers)

John McCain Campaign rejects Christian Leaders John Hagee, Dr. James Dobson, and Billy Graham. Does this make you more or less likely to vote for McCain?

2008-06-09T21:50:19Z

John McCain Campaign rejects Christian Leaders John Hagee, Dr. James Dobson, and Billy Graham. Does this make you more or less likely to vote for McCain?

9 answers, 0 raves

Source: http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/mccain_graham_meeting/2008/0... In another disturbing sign that Sen. John McCain has little interest in reaching out to his conservative base, including evangelical Christian voters, his campaign has declined an offer to meet with the Rev. Billy Graham. For almost six decades, Graham has been America’s most influential preacher and evangelist, a man sought out by every president since Harry Truman.... In recent weeks I have been involved with Brian Jacobs, a Fort Worth, Texas, minister and consultant to the Billy Graham Association, to broker a meeting between McCain and Graham. In May, we contacted the McCain campaign with an offer to arrange such a meeting, as we had done between candidate George W. Bush and Graham during the 2000 election.... The rejection of an offer to meet with Graham is yet another indication that the McCain campaign has made a deliberate, strategic decision to chart a new course for the GOP, a course without the sizeable evangelical Christian voting bloc serving as its base.... When Jacobs called me earlier this year to suggest that we try to arrange a similar meeting between Graham and McCain, I was skeptical. During the 2000 primary race, McCain called evangelicals “agents of intolerance.” Though McCain actually is quite engaging with religious believers -- I have been with him a couple of times at religious events and once interviewed him for a television show that aired on a religious network -- his staff is notoriously hostile. McCain adviser, Charlie Black, and campaign manager, Rick Davis, have a long, troubled history with the evangelical wing of the party. The pair were said to be behind McCain’s decision to throw televangelist John Hagee “under the bus” after audio recordings suggested Hagee believed Adolf Hitler was an agent of God. Though Hagee’s views of “predestination” are mainstream among many Christian denominations and Hagee obviously never suggested support for Hitler or Nazis, McCain called Hagee “crazy.” Only weeks before he denounced Hagee, McCain had publicly trumpeted the pastor’s endorsement. Indeed, Hagee has been one of the greatest supporters of Israel and Jewish causes in the evangelical community. McCain’s hasty decision to discard Hagee was seen by many evangelicals, even those who are not fans of Hagee, as a betrayal. Although it was done in the context of Sen. Barack Obama’s Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy, it was a moment that seemed to pander to the media’s ignorance and hostility toward religion in general. Many evangelicals saw it as grossly unfair. Even McCain’s friend, Jewish independent Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman said he would still speak at a Hagee gathering. Ed Koch, the former New York mayor and leading Jewish Democrat, scolded McCain for the decision. “It has become fashionable among liberals, including Jews, to ridicule and denounce Hagee and other fundamentalists,” Koch wrote in a Newsmax.com column. “I do not. I appreciate their support of the state of Israel.” But Hagee and Graham are not the only evangelical leaders to be rebuffed by McCain. Press reports indicate McCain has turned away olive branch invitations from the influential Dr. James Dobson for the senator to visit him at his headquarters in Colorado Springs. The theory behind the McCain campaign’s strategy to ignore evangelicals is that they have nowhere else to go, that Obama is too liberal, and they’ll vote against him come November. But McCain’s team is missing the fact that the vacuum created by the GOP’s divorce from them is being filled by the Democrats. Both Clinton and Obama have been quietly courting evangelicals, the former in private meetings last year and the later with open, religious language.... McCain’s decision not to meet with Graham will likely provoke outrage. And the campaign will likely back down. Graham is no Hagee or Dobson. They will say it was all a mistake and blame it on staff or a “misunderstanding.” But in the process they have revealed their mind-set. Their decision to ignore the leaders of America’s 80 million born-again voters represents a stunning, high wire act for a Republican presidential candidate. © 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved. UPDATE: McCain Campaign Clarifies Communications With Rev. Billy Graham http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/McCain_Meet_graham/2008/06...

It makes no difference. I'm choosing Obama.	44% (4 answers)
No difference. I support McCain no matter what happens.	22% (2 answers)
Undecided	22% (2 answers)
Less likely. McCain is alienating his base, including me.	11% (1 answers)
More likely. The Evangelicals are a bunch of nutjobs.	0% (0 answers)
More likely, but I like Obama better.	0% (0 answers)
No difference. It's a clerical mistake and I still support McCain.	0% (0 answers)
There are no good candidates this time! I'm not voting!	0% (0 answers)
I don't like McCain or Obama! I'm voting for a third party!	0% (0 answers)

Man Sentenced to Prison After Girl's MySpace Page Lies About Age... Who's at fault?

2008-06-02T23:00:37Z

Man Sentenced to Prison After Girl's MySpace Page Lies About Age... Who's at fault?

99 answers, +9 raves

Story here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024762/posts ORANGE COUNTy, Fla. -- A 13-year-old girl's sexual shenanigans have put a second man behind bars. Morris Williams, 22, told the judge he thought the girl was 18-years-old, but he found out Tuesday that ignorance is not a defense. Morris Williams' mother wailed as he went off to jail. The judge asked for media not to show 13-year-old Alisha Dean's face in court, but her pictures are all over her MySpace page and they portray a sexy, 19-year-old divorced woman. "She told me she had just turned 18," Williams said. Williams said Dean picked him up on the street and after a few conversations they had sex. When he heard she was not 18, he went to her father. "He was like 'well, she's 13,'" Williams said of a conversation with Dean's father. Williams said he never did it again, but Dean has done it before with 24-year-old Darwin Mills. Mills was sentenced to five years in prison. Dean's father wanted Williams to join Mills there. "One of the reasons for the law is the fact that minors have poor judgment," said Jerry Dean, the girl's father. Williams' father believes the jail sentence sends the wrong message to Alisha. "I guess we just sit back and count how many after this," Henry Smith asked after his step-son was sentenced to jail. Dean's family admits Alisha still stays out late and has yet to delete her misleading MySpace page. Williams will serve six years probation with the first year in jail. The other five years he will have to wear an ankle monitor. His attorney says he will come back to court to ask again for a shorter sentence.

All of the above	36% (36 answers)
The girl and the father	29% (29 answers)
The 13-year-old girl	17% (17 answers)
The father of the 13-year-old-girl	7% (7 answers)
None of the above	6% (6 answers)
The boy and the father	3% (3 answers)
The girl and the boy	1% (1 answers)
The young man who had sex with the 13-year-old girl	0% (0 answers)

Is Hollywood going too far with the sexualizing of young teens?

2008-05-06T22:58:15Z

Is Hollywood going too far with the sexualizing of young teens?

8 answers, +1 raves

Yes	75% (6 answers)
No	25% (2 answers)
Undecided	0% (0 answers)

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) has done a nude scene on Broadway, and now co-star Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) is flashing see-through panties to the paparazzi. Are these teen stars next on the Britney, Paris, and Lindsay bandwagon?

2008-05-06T22:21:22Z

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) has done a nude scene on Broadway, and now co-star Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) is flashing see-through panties to the paparazzi. Are these teen stars next on the Britney, Paris, and Lindsay bandwagon?

10 answers, +1 raves

No	70% (7 answers)
Undecided	20% (2 answers)
Yes	10% (1 answers)

Which of these photos of "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus are really her?

2008-05-06T20:56:11Z

Which of these photos of "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus are really her?

4 answers, -3 raves

Over the past few months, several pictures surfaced proporting to be of child star Miley Cyrus, a.k.a. Hannah Montana. Some of them are real, some of them likely fakes. Which of the following pictures do you believe are really the teenage princess of pop? Recommended reading: http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_27262015... http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?ar... http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080505/L...

This is definitely her! The girl is one step away from the Britney zone!	25% (1 answers)
They are all really her. She's trying to live "the best of both worlds" and is going to end up just like Britney, Paris, and Linsday!	25% (1 answers)
None of the above pics are my Miley! It's all part of a conspiracy to ruin her reputation!	25% (1 answers)
None of the above	25% (1 answers)
The "Vanity Fair" picture is really her. I'm disappointed, but it's not the end of the world.	0% (0 answers)
These pics are of her, too, and it's just plain SCANDALOUS!	0% (0 answers)
The "moon" picture is really her, too. She's such a little SL**!!!!	0% (0 answers)
The pictures may or may not be her, but who cares? Kids will be kids and there's no harm in them having a little fun.	0% (0 answers)