politics

When I was younger, every year on the fourth of July, my dad would ask me to help him put the flag up on the front of our house. My father is a civil war buff, and because of that, we had been to Gettysburg many times by the time of this particular incident and I knew about Lincoln and was particularly fascinated by him because he was talking in the wax museum. :-O Anyway, I was helping my father, and I drooped the flag a bit too low. He said to me "Don't droop the flag, you'll make Lincoln angry!" All I could picture in my head was a giant Lincoln head in the sky, steaming from his ears, yelling obscenities commanding the Union Army to attack me because I drooped the flag. I never helped my dad again.

Renae

i believed that the president was the king of the world so i was sooo excited when our 1st grade class wrote to him and got a reply! then when the president changed i started crying because i always thought that when you became president you died 4 years later! hahahahaha wow i was really stupid

zlata

I used to hear on TV all the time about the "government", and think it was an actual person who was even more important and powerful than the president, except nobody actually saw him or knew his name.

Brandon Campbell

True story: When i was in first grade and the first Gulf War was going on, i thought Saddam Hussein's name was Saddam "Who's Sayin"
I'm like, Saying What?

Holly

for the longest time i thought that Stockwell Day was some kind of holiday about the stock market. but stockwell day was a leader of the canadian alliance (or something). it's not my fault if his name is weird!

mop

I used to believe that "the bomb" was literally one bomb and resided in the White House, and I was fearful that some cleaning lady might drop it when dusting and that would be the end of us.

tcbyrd

I used to believe that the Jewish Settlers in Gaza and the West Bank should move back and give the land back to the Palace Indians.

El Gringo

I used to think that the President of the United States did the evening news because Ronald Reagan looked a lot like Dan Rather to me.

Andrea

I used to believe that George Washington was trying to talk to me whenever I got water up my nose during a bath. To this day, I have no idea why.

Anon

On the TV news I was used to them showing a photo of a person's face in the corner of the screen with the name of that person underneath. So one day they showed Ayatollah Khomeini, with "IRAN" underneath, and I thought Iran was his name.

Brandon Campbell

when I was very small Margaret Thatcher was still prime minister of Britain, and I used to think that she and the queen were the same person.

Megan

i used to think that Nassar Hussein(the captain of the England cricket team) and Saddam Hussein were the same person.

Anon

i used to think that groucho marx and karl marx were brothers.

Anon

I was born in the late fifties and went to grade school in the early to mid sixties-

JFK was asassinated in 1963- Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy asassinated in 1968.

I used to believe that all US Presidents died by asassination.

Mark Burroughs

I used to believe there was a Russian Leader named Garbage Trough and an Arabian named Are A Fat

Anon