How many know that the "Pledge" was created by a SOCIALIST....

[Postman]

Somehow that fact escaped my public education. Why?

http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I do I do

and the under gud was sadded in the 1950s on insistence of the Pukes

[Kire]

2. Hey! I just looked that up yesterday.

and under god wasn't added until 1954

[Obamanaut]

15. Me too! Even back in the '50s,

(graduated HS in ‘60) I was verbally chastised for not doing the pledge or the prayer, and never took a turn at the ritual bible reading.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/nat_pled1.htm

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It was signed into law on Flag Day, JUN-14. President Eisenhower said at the time: "From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty." 4 With the addition of "under God" to the Pledge, it became both "a patriotic oath and a public prayer...
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[moobu2]

3. Congress added "Under God" In the communist paranoid 50’s

[norml]

4. Thanks!

I'll use this in my next show.

[Postman]

9. What show?

n/t

[LittleClarkie]

5. So why do they think it's so important to say the damn thing?

I haven't said it since I was a kid. Will I need a patriotic booster shot?

[lindisfarne]

7. Because the republican base is very ignorant of history. n/t

[lindisfarne]

6. Hmmm maybe we should make that wide-spread knowledge, claim that

the pledge is really about socialism, and then we'll have RWers clamoring to get rid of the pledge.

[Puregonzo1188]

8. I did and am I the only who feels

Congress adding "Under God" seems almost like censorship in a weird sort of way?

[spuddonna]

10. I knowed it! I larnt it yesterday! n/t

[BringEmOn]

11. Original flag salute

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. AGAIN? Oooooo it's evil because it's SOCIALIST! And Nazis were SOCIALIST!!

Yeah, right. :sarcasm:

[karlrschneider]

12. I never knew the original author until recently, BUT I stopped saying

it when they add the UG phrase. Caught a bit of crap over it but nothing serious. Uh, I mean series. Some of the wingnuts were stocking me, though.
;-)

edit: fixed some extra letters, this damn keyboard is FUBAR
gotta drag out another one...

[Maple]

13. And your hand is now on your heart because....

http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html