Wow, just, wow. Just when you thought, you know, nothing in this day and age can shock me, you have seen it all from your fellow countrymen, that we have scraped the barrel clean on both sides, you get this:
http://news.yahoo.com/...
Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the
Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.
While the country is preparing to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and shocked the world, 95 percent of Americans questioned in the poll were able to remember the month and the day of the attacks, according to Wednesday's edition of the newspaper.
F-ing scary.
But, as the article points out, age might have been a factor:
Of that group, six percent gave an earlier year, eight percent gave a later year, and 16 percent admitted they had no idea whatsoever.
This memory black hole is essentially the problem of the older crowd: 48 percent of those who did not know were between the ages of 55 and 64, and 47 percent were older than 65, according to the poll.
Upside, this goes a long way to explaining Bush's 32% approval rating. Downside, this was only FIVE years ago, and this subset of the population also goes to the polls in droves.
God Save the King, oh wait, I forgot...