The answer according to Darwin: 
"Chickens, over millions of years, have been selected through
competition and survival of the fittest, to have a genetic
predisposition for crossing roads."
Einstein:  "The question as to whether the chicken crossed the road or
the road passed under the chicken has no objective meaning; it depends
on one's frame of reference."
Emerson:  "The chicken did not cross the road - it merely transcended
it."
Al Gore:  "The chicken crossed the road because there was no controlling
legal authority to prevent it."
Bill Clinton:  "Well, I don't remember for sure if the chicken crossed
the road.  There's not a single scrap of evidence to suggest that it
did.  Of course, it might have, but if it did then there was certainly
nothing illegal about it.  The chicken is the most ethical fowl in
American history."
Richard Morris:  "We had to make the chicken cross the road if we wanted
to defeat the Republicans."
James Carville:  "The Republicans made the chicken cross the road."
The press:  "Today the Republicans rounded up all the chickens in the
nation, marched them across the road, forced them to pray and then shot
them with unregistered assault weapons.  Neglecting the cries of the
needy of this country, the Republicans then slaughtered the chickens,
roasted them over an open fire, thereby contributing dangerous CO2
emissions which are causing catastrophic global warming, and ate all of
the birds, which are listed as an endangered species.  The Republicans
then sat around smoking cigarettes, making racist jokes and conspiring
to take away social security from our nation's senior citizens."
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