Was that a bad joke? And if not, did he really not catch himself when people started laughing?
Maybe he needs to start wearing a flag pin so he could use the stars on it as a reference.
Best guess is he meant he had been to 47 states (since he implies there are three states he hasn’t been to). McCain would not get away with that gaffe.
(hat tip Hot Air)
UPDATE:
This is a good point. Isn’t this way dumber than anything Dan Quayle said? What’s better known: The spelling of “potato” or how many states are in the union? What’s better known if you’re a U.S. Senator (not from Idaho)?
I think he was including all of the state sponsors of terror, with which he is so enamoured.
Sorry, I lost my bearings and used the half-African mathematics that Louis Farrakhan taught me. Not that I’d expect you crackers and your honkey math to understand.
Sounds like he plans to add a few. Who knew there was an imperialistic Obama?
Like Paaakistaaan after his invasion. But not Iraq, nooooooooo. That’s Booooosh’s. Maybe Mehico?
And if John McCain had done this, it would be the lead story on the news, with people questioning if he has developed Alzhimers.
There is no liberal media bias… Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. The Great and Powerful Oz has spoken!
His staff wouldn’t let him go to Alaska and Hawaii? Who’s in charge here? If he wants to go to those states, can’t he stand up to his own staff and remind them who’s in charge? Can we expect that same bold leadership when he talks to the UN? To Congress? To his cabinet? Sheesh
It seems to this casual observer that your bias toward Senator Obama has reached the level of hero worship. This marks a dramatic turn away from your prior well-earned reputation for fairness, evenness, and showing bias neither for or against anyone.
As a devoted follower of this fine site, I applaud your decision to become devoted followers of Senator Obama, but fear that I may have to turn elsewhere for hard news. Can you set aside my concerns somehow by bestowing something other than glowing praise on Mr. Obama?
As to the details of the current post, note that it is difficult to keep straight all the details of a country in which you were not raised.
Crickey!! This is too funny! Joe Lieberman is personally in touch with John McCain’s bearings:
“I just want to report that this morning I personally checked John McCain’s bearings. He has not lost any of them. They’re all really in great shape.” – Joe Lieberman
Nice game there, #8. You be my Doppleganger.
Actually, had I found that link, I would have posted it. It’s just that my choice of words would have been different! “Crickey!!” – bwahahahaha. 🙂
Vote the three “C” ‘s – castrated, corrupt, communist – BO in ’08
Those last seven are different states of mind, how deep is that?
You were all wondering how he could spin it. He sure showed you.
There’s really an innocent explanation: Democrats can’t do arithmetic. Accountants, engineers, and other people who have calculators on their desks tend to vote Republican. People who believe in rainbow unicorns tend to vote Democrat.
Hey, you can’t give sub-Saharan Africa welfare checks unless you make them states! Let’s see whitey EVER win a primary again…
Math is for bitter clingers! Get back on-board with the Hope/Change thingy! McCain is still going to get so bitch slapped in the fall!
He has been under the impression all these years that the 57 on his Heinz 57 stood for the number of American States, so cut him some slack here people…
TRUE TO YOUR TAG LINE. THE HATRED AND IGNORANCY OF HARD WORKING AMERICIANS{WHITE PEOPLE} WILL NEVER END TO THE GOD OF THE CHOSEN FEW GET TIRED OF YOUR DEVILMENT
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Wow. Somebody forgot to remove the caps lock, put in commas and periods and of course can’t be bothered to make any sense at all. Jibberish is as jibberish does.
Must be troll season. It is very unfair, however, to hunt those without the means to defend themselves. In the battlefield of intelligent debate trolls are most often without armor or weaponry.
How sad.
Dang, I was so entranced by the shouting I forgot I actually had something to say.
Mr. Obama’s having math issues. That’s just what we need in a chief executive, someone who can’t count.
“So you want me to authorize I billion in foreign aid to Iran?”
“NO, Mr. President we want you to donate $10.00 to Toys for Tots.”(after all it won’t be long before kids are designated terrorists-everybody knows how they are, and we’re doing a better job at killing them off they we are getting rid of terrorists)
That Barry what a card.
Hey, give him a break. He looked like he was tired. It isn’t like he will have to make any decisions when he is tired after he is elected. Phone rings at 3am, it can wait until the morning for a rational decision.
Personally I think there should be at least one debate where all the candidates are forced to operate sleep deprived, and then perform a bunch of simple routine tasks. This debate would show us who is best able to handle pressure. It would never happen, but it would be interesting. Then again, maybe a caged death match, at least for the primaries.
Perhaps we should ask for their sat scores
How about a contest to design Obama’s new 57 state lapel pin?
haha what an idiot!!
You have to be careful laughing at the 57 states “gaffe.”
It was probably a slip of the tongue reference to the Democrats new redistricting plan. Unfamiliar with this strategy? Check out Congressman Bobby Scott’s District, here, in Virginia.
If shown a map of his district, most people outside of Virginia, think you’re “pulling their leg.”
Washington D.C. would be the 51st state and Puerto Rico would be 52. They’d carve the other five out of Democratic areas of the remaining Red States…
;^]
Oh…
And then, of course, they’d declare them “Sanctuary States…”
I wonder how Obama would score on:
(1) A US History exam
(2) An oral pier review on Federal Government organization and operations
(3) “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth-Grader?”
Useless speculation? I mentioned yesterday to an Obama supporter that he simply has insufficient experience to be President, irrespective of his political views. He would never be considered for CEO of a major corpoation (which the US is), so why should the Presidency be any different?
Obama, PBUH, was just using his creative right-handed brain, something you left-brained, logical crackers wouldn’t understand.
Have an Evil day.
Ooooh! He meant ARAB states.
Pennsylvania is also a big potato state, in which misspelling the word potato would not be excused.
Well, check out this link of silliness: When Obama Wins
Silly Frank, Barry O. would NEVER be caught dead wearing a flag pin. Least not an American flag pin anyway.
On a serious note, scary stuff I received in email; worth a look. It would probably be an easy search to find out how true it is:
Celeste and Loren Davis are missionaries in Africa and can shed some light on one of our Presidential candidates.
Dear Billy Sam,
Thanks for sending out an alert about Obama. We have been living and working in Kenya for almost twelve years and know his family (tribe) well. They are the ones who were behind the recent Presidential election chaos here. Thousands of people have been displaced by election violence (over 350,000) and I don’t know the last count of the dead. Obama under “friends of Obama” gave almost a million dollars to the opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga, a socialist trained in East Germany. He has been trying to bring Kenya down for years and the last president threw him in prison for trying to subvert this country! December 27th elections brought cries from ODM (Odinga Camp) of rigged election. Obama and Raila speak daily. As we watch Obama rise in the US we are sure that whatever happens, he will use the same tactic, crying rigged election if he doesn’t win and possibly causing a race war in America.
What we would like you to know is what the American press has been keeping a dirty little secret. Obama IS a muslim and he IS a racist and this is a fulfillment of the 911 threat that was just the beginning. Jihad is the only true muslim way. We will have been working with them for 20 years this July! He is not an American as we know it.
Please encourage your friends and associates not to be taken in by those that are promoting him. It is world wide jihad. All our friends in Europe are very disturbed by the muslim infiltration into their countries. By the way, his true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama. Won’t that sound sweet to our enemies as they swear him in on the Koran!
God Bless you.
Pray for us here in Kenya. We are still fighting for our nation to withstand the same kind of assult that every nation, including America, is fighting. Takeover from the outside to fit the new world order. As believers, this means we will be the first targets. Here in Kenya, not one mosque was burned down, but hundreds of churches were burned down, some with people in them, burned alive.
Jesus Christ is our peace but the new world order of Globalism has infiltrated the church and confused believers into thinking that they can compromise and survive. It won’t be so. I will send you a newsletter we sent out in February documenting in a more cohesive manner what I’ve tried to say in a few paragraphs.
Celeste and Loren Davis
About our Father’s business!
Luke 2:49b