I’m sure this is being blogged by everybody and their brother, but I can’t let it pass me by. It made me laugh way too hard. Back in mid-April, The Obamessiah decided that the United States should go back to where it was, say, about 1958 or so.
And I’ve now campaigned in 47 states, actively. And I think South Dakota is the last state that I have not had a campaign event in.
Now that doesn’t mean that I expect that I will win all 50 — or 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii — all 50 states.
It was a slip, sure. Anyone who’s a bit tired and has been hitting the campaign trail hard could forget that Alaska and Hawaii are actually states. I mean, they sit way out there, forlorn and alone, on our maps, in their own little blocked-out areas like the kids who missed school the day they took the class photo and had to have an older picture clipped into the year book.
Yesterday’s gaffe from Obama is better than that one in so many ways. Take a peek below the jump to see what he’s done to our fine national geography now.
Yep. Now, not only did he finally acknowledge Alaska and Hawaii, but he tossed in a few more states, just in case there were some he might have missed. Then he took a quick dinner break where I understand Heinz 63 Sauce was available for the steak and several of Baskin Robbins’ 43 1/2 Flavors were available for dessert.
What I want to know is how the heck he came up with 57. Even if his super-brain counted in the trust territories (Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the US Virgin Islands) and added Washington, DC, which would finally be able to stop whining now about how much it really deserves to be a state, that only gets him to 55.
He’s two short. What other mystery states has he added to our great union? I guess we’ll have to wait until January, 2009 to find out.
In the meantime, we can show our patriotism to this, our brave new nation, Suitably Flip has fashioned a flag pin for Obama to pointedly not wear, lest he cheapen his love for the nation with mere baubles.
Allah’s summed it up nicely: “Dude’s lost his bearings”.
The Anchoress had to fight off her better angels to blog on this. I’m glad she did because she’s absolutely correct:
I’m not a spiteful sort but it seems like there just needs to be some balance, doesn’t it? If Bush had talked about visiting “57 states” we’d see it run on every channel, in an endless loop, for days on end. We’d be hearing “moron, moron, moron,” etc.
I don’t think Obama is a moron and I would never call him that. But hey, the guy talked about 57 states.
This makes his second blunder on the same topic in less than a month. I expect candidates to slip up once in a while. We all do. But twice in a while? It shows me that maybe Obama gets just a little bit flustered when he has to improvise. That’s not a good quality for a President to have. He’s not always going to have the advantage of a well-prepared speech and an adoring crowd (though if he wears jeans, the crowd might be a lot more adoring than is decent). I’d rather not have a President who, when faced with a tough, snap decision, can’t bring basic facts to bear.
(Had to change a typo in the subject line. “Allegiance” had been one of my “trouble words” since I was in grade school)
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Media Bias
Remember this one?
Do we even know what his grades were in school? Was he a “C” student like Bush? Not that I think this is a bad thing….but I’m just wondering also if the media is planning to flog him for his education (or lack of) the way the do Bush every time he mis-speaks (or just flat out makes up new words…LOL.)
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