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Noun: rhetorical question
1. A statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered
"he liked to make his points with rhetorical questions"
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- Would you be in favor of raising the national debt to 2 trillion dollars?
- Can you please list the terrorist organizations in the middle east, name their leaders, map out their historical roots, and finally compare and contrast their interrelationships, ambitions and beliefs?
- What is the capitol city of Utah and its approximate population?
- Do you believe that Jewish Masons run this country--the world?
- Do you think Martin Luther King, Jr. would be as popular today if the had lived to advocate a fairer distribution of wealth among the nations?
- Do you agree that alcoholic beverages are on balance an unsurpassed blessing?
- Do you really believe the liberal spin that tobacco causes cancer and that economic enterprise has environmental impact?
- Do you think that egg beaters beat eggs or do people beat eggs? As a follow-up question, do you equate egg beaters with assault rifles?
- Which do you think has had a more positive impact upon society, Jesus's Beatitudes or Trash-It-All Movies?
- Do you deny that the Fathers of our Country and of the Constitution were all-knowing with absolute final say on all matters?
- Do you really think that government has a shred of legitimacy other than for the ascent of military weaponry?
- Do you deny that pornography went undiscovered until the WorldWide Web?
- Do you agree that love among those of the same sex is no more than "Seein' me and Julio down by the schoolyard."?
- To be considered as great as Lincoln, would you freely foster war?
- Will you tag every major address with "God Bless America!...and All Other Countries of the World!"?
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