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Gotcha Questions

John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election and professional speaker of gibberish, Sarah Palin, seems to have quite the obsession with what she calls “gotcha questions”. In the run up to the 2008 election, Palin was interviewed by Katie Couric and because the helicopter-wolf-huntin’ grizzly mama was unable to provide satisfactory answers to questions regarding Supreme Court cases and the media, she later referred to such inquiries as gotcha questions. More recently this happened when she was asked the question, "What have you seen so far today and what are you going to take away from your visit?" Palin responded with, "He who warned the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms, by ringing those bells, and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free." After receiving plenty of flack for her response, the former half-ter...