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The Loaded Question
The loaded question is one of the oldest rhetorical tricks in the book and is a favorite of the Republican attack machine. Loaded or included in the question is an accusation that is either not true or has not been proven but is one that the questioner hopes will serve his/her accusatory purpose. The following actual questions should require no further elaboration:

Is Barack Obama really a socialist?

Is Obama really a Muslim? Or, was Obama a Muslim?

Why does Obama want to kill babies?

Aren’t you embarrassed by the blatant attempts to register voters by ACORN, an organization that Barack Obama has been tied to?

How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?

Should anyone care about Obama’s associations with Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright?

Can anyone think of any loaded questions we could ask about John McCain or Sarah Palin? Is that a loaded question or a legitimate question?

Re: Loaded Questions for John McCain

Submitted by uisdean on Sun, 2008-11-02 22:05.
Vernon, McCain has lived off the American taxpayer his entire life. He has received government subsidized health care all of this time but not only won't he provide health care for struggling Americans, he wants to tax our health care for the first time in history. He owns 7 or 8 or 9 houses, who knows, but he is against anything that would fix this housing crises in a common sense manner, wanting instead to save the banks from losing money, too bad if we lose our homes. He wants to litmus test judges for the Supreme Court to reverse Roe V. Wade, but has no problem dropping smart bombs on little Arab children and blowing their arms off. You are no gentleman, you are a lemming.

Loaded Questions for John McCain

Submitted by xxplatykat on Sat, 2008-11-01 20:11.
Senator, is it true that you called your wife the 'c' word? If so, what does this say about your attitude to women in general, and women's issues in particular?

Senator, during your bombing raids over North Vietnam did you bomb civilian installations such as hospitals, schools, dams, electricity and water resources?

Senator, why was it that you did not resign from political life after being implicated in corruption with the Keating five? Would this not have been the 'honourable' thing to do?

Senator, have you actually done anything you are proud of since being released from that North Vietnamese prison? As an outsider, the one thing that has stood out in your campaign is the constant harping on something that happened in your life nearly 40 years ago. Where is the rest of your record in serving your country? You even manage to give it as an answer, and excuse for current behaviour, to questions totally unrelated to your incarceration.

Sorry, Senator but I find your 'rhetoric' and self-congratulatory stance appalling. If you were standing for election in Australia you would be put at the very bottom of my preferential voting form!

Re: Loaded Questions for John McCain

Submitted by xxplatykat on Sat, 2008-11-01 20:14.
One didn't want to go too far with the 'Sarah' debacle made by McCain. It is even more disgraceful than the rest of his personal and public history put together!

Re: Loaded Questions for John McCain

Submitted by vernon clayson on Sun, 2008-11-02 19:43.
Lorraine Paul apparently is unaware that McCain has served his country since he was a teenager and entered the Naval Academy, isn't a military career and service as a representative and then a senator for over 30 years serving the country in your view? Would it have been better if he became a community organizer? You are silly but I am too much the gentleman to call you a silly 'c word'. Obama is a revoltionary in waiting, perhaps we will see his image on tee shirts ala Che Guverra.

Loaded Questions for Sarah Palin

Submitted by nemo on Fri, 2008-10-31 21:05.
Governor Palin, there is a political party in Alaska called the Alaska Independence Party which has called for a referendum under United Nations auspices to determine whether Alaska should remain in the United States or become an indpendent nation. The founder of this party, the late Joe Vogler was quoted as saying: "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I have no use for America or her damned institutions". You have never been a member of this party, but your husband Todd was from 1995 to 2006. When you were mayor of Wassila and the AIP held its convention in that city you personally attended the convention to greet the delegates. More recently, as governor, you sent a video greeting to the delegates at a more recent AIP convention.

1) Do you believe a state has the right to secede from the United States if a majority of voters in a referendum (whether or not conducted under UN auspices) vote to secede?

2) Do you see any conflict between the oath you took as mayor and governor to support the US Constitution in addressing the AIP convention, even if you did not endorse their proposed referendum?

3) Do you consider the AIP to be anti-American? If not, why not?

Re: Loaded Questions for Sarah Palin

Submitted by gainwmn on Sat, 2008-11-01 17:19.
It is obvious that the right of cessation goes against the Constitution of the USA, and of course, she would answer resounding "NO" to your questions, since.. she just dreams of becoming a Vice-President.
To me the absense of such a provision
in the US Constitution demonstrates: first - the lack of democratic ideals in the main law of the land (in comparison to even former Soviet Constitution that did include the the cessation rights of the Soviet Republics, according to which those have eventually separated from Russia); second - striking-the-eye conclusion that, at least some of the American Constitution articles become obsolete many decades ago, and therefore, its a high time to start working out the new one.

Re: Loaded Questions for Sarah Palin

Submitted by uisdean on Sun, 2008-11-02 22:07.
We could ask her what newspaper she reads, oops too hard. We could ask her what she thinks of the Bush Doctrine, oops, too hard again. We could ask her to name a time when John McCain supported more regulation to prevent economic collapse, oops, that's been tried too. How about "How many fingers do I have up?"