CreepyPirate wrote:
And who taught you that?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 056AAXDX8C It's true what there saying. It was made when France and America was fighting zie British off for independence
You are both half right. Our National Anthem lyrics, aka the Star Spangled Banner, was written during the War of 1812 by Francis Scott Key who witnessed the British bomb Baltimore. However, the melody which the song was played to was modeled after a famous drinking song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_BannerBrad wrote:
I'd rather have Queen Elizabeth and the royal family for eternity than have George Bush leading my country for 4 years, and I'd rather not be in a country that's dumb enough to re-elect him. The Royal Family hasn't done as much damage in however many hundreds of years, to Britain, than George Bush has to America in 7 years of office. Dispute that with some tired, battered old rhetoric if you must, but try and read what you write. And ask yourself if you really believe it.
I'm won't deny America's most recent presidents have been rather depressing. Nothing new there. But I won't agree with you on the fact that monarchies are better than democracies, which you failed to elaborate on and began a new dispute in a completely different direction. That's is something even Britian, as well as other countries, have acknoleged, evident by the fact of their switch from a full scale monarchy to a consitutional monarchy, where the monarch is no more than a figurehead.
Feel obliged to rebuke me again with your poor, subtle insults, but I can tell you nothing will convince me that rule under a monarch is better than democracy. Despite America's deterioating democratic principles, under which we were founded, we remain a democracy, nonetheless, and I believe with some well qualified leaders and more politically intelligent voters we can get back on track.
The National Anthem wasn't a drinking song. It was written by a man during a war who saw all of the blown up buildings and the bodies and he saw that out flag was still flying and had no flaws in it. 
