Dumb Things Americans Believe

I just want to thanks Newsweek for writing this up, and sharing it with the rest of Americans.
I am going to give my take on some of the things that really bother me most.

1 in 5 Americans believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Something we all know is not a fact, and is certainly unfounded. The tabloids and right wing extremists clearly are winning with numbers like this though. Even if he was Muslim, who cares? We are a country rich in diversity, and founded on religious freedom, or is that only if we are Catholic or Christian?

21% of Americans believe in Witch Craft. Breaking it down they learned that some believe there are real people who believe in spells, sorcerors, conjurers, and warlocks.
I say, they have been watching too much Harry Potter!

4 in 10 Americans believe in "death panels" through the Health Care reform.
I think we all learned almost 2 years ago NOT to listen to anything Sarah Palin has to say! Yet her facebook posting that health care reform will include death panels, and people picking and choosing who gets what health care, and who doesn't is still a popular belief in our country. Just going to show how little people know about health care reform, and what is actually going on.

41% of Americans believe that Saddan Hussein had WMD's and was involved in 9/11.
Nearly four years after the invasion of Iraq, and proof that not only did Saddam Hussein did not have any weapons of mass destruction, but overwhelming proof that he had nothing to do with the September 11th attacks. American's still ignorantly believe that he was involved and we found something when invading Iraq.

More than 3/4 of Americans could name two of the seven dwarfs, but not two of the current Supereme Court Justices.
Um, I have no words for this... all I can do is hang my head in shame.

63% of Young Americans cannot find Iraq on a Map, 9 out of 10 cannot find Afghanistan on a map of Asia.
Apparently people, including the young American's who are loosing peers in this war failed geography in school.

1 in 3 Americans do not believe that the first amendment applies to groups like Muslims or those who are often classified as "extreme".
I guess we can just pick and choose which regions are valid now in the US huh? It is a true shame that most American's are this ignorant. The worst part of it all, two out of five American's think TEACHERS should be able to lead prayer in their classrooms.
What a shame!

What in the hell is happening to this country?