I thought president's state of the union speech was about the best state in the union. I would listen to the speech hoping Illinois would be named number one. After I figured out what the speech was about, I never listened again.
A childhood belief about politics

others believed things like this
- I don't know why, but for some reason I thought that blinking your eyes powered your speech.Anon
- I used to think you could go to jail just by saying a word wrong during a speech.Anon
- We would drive by UNION BANK here in California and I would say "Onion bank!" My Mom would bust up laughing.— BINGO
- I used to think that because there was a state called Washington, there was also a state called Dryington.— Jasonchic
- I thought Albania was the state of AlabamaAnon
- when I was young, I thought Denmark was a state, just like Deleware and North Dakota.— valerie