By now you may have seen the video of Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) hilariously messing up the Pledge of Allegiance while trying to shove it in the faces of ‘liberals’ at the Grand Teabag Ball yesterday, but here it is again. Could there be a more telling slip than being so focused on ‘under God’ that you skip right over ‘indivisible’? Of course, that just set the stage for John Boehner (there to represent all orange Americans) to mix up the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution.
Two fun facts about the Pledge of Allegiance that Rep. Todd Akin did not mention during his speech:
1. It was written by a socialist, Francis Bellamy
2. The original salute for the Pledge was not the hand over heart that we use today. The original salute looked like this:
This version of the salute was officially dropped in 1942, for obvious reasons.
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