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formerrepuke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 12:42 PM Original message |
Poll question: When did America lose her innocence? |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think I agree with the notion of innocence being a bit silly, but... |
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momster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:51 PM Response to Reply #1 |
21. Whiskey Rebellion |
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steel71 (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 02:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
26. When they murdered JFK |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 02:30 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Right ... who's "they" again? |
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Skarbrowe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 04:08 PM Response to Reply #1 |
34. I don't think we were ever innocent, I went with "perceived" innocence. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
2. 1492??? LOLOLOLOL! Is that option for the hopelessly stupid or something? |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. nope |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:45 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Prosecution rests, your honor. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:50 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Actually, that is just my opening statement. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:52 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. You can keep going if you want to. I've rested. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:55 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Yeah, it's Friday afternoon. I'll rest too. |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
3. Tuesday, January 20, 1981 - Ronald Reagan's Inaugural |
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MessiahRp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
4. Lost innocence? No... |
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sheerjoy (369 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 02:16 PM Response to Reply #4 |
27. Oooo....what he/she said! Yeah! n/t |
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Madspirit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
5. I picked "never" |
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MessiahRp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 12:51 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. That is the problem with all empires unfortunately. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
6. (a) A nation born with slavery can never claim innocence... |
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bobbie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 02:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
25. Very good point |
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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
8. The first settlers |
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Marnieworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
9. Innocent? C'mon |
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some guy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
10. around 1492 |
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dave_p (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
11. Some say 19 Aug 1953 |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
12. I don't know about America |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
13. Innocence, no. Naïveté, yes. |
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Peregrine Took (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
14. When we dropped the bomb on Japan - that began the whole military industrial |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
15. well, "innocence" is a stretch |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
17. WTF is "innocence" anyway? |
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Colobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
18. The whole continent was born on the base of theft and explotation |
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bobbie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
24. When people realized that their gov't killed their president |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
28. We've never been innocent, in that dewy-eyed, Norman Rockwell kind of way. |
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DemGa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
30. Jamestown VA. 1607 |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
31. None of the above |
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Perky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
32. When the first slave ship arrived. |
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Colobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
33. "America" was the name given to this side of the world, by the way |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
35. while your last choice is interesting.... |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
36. When Don Henley wrote that friggin' song about it. nt |
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rasputin1952 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-18-07 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
37. About 20 minutes after the Constitution was ratified... |
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