Ah, Oregon. The beautiful Northwest. Rain. Trees. Clouds. Rain. Friendly territory for Sen. Barack Obama , the leading contender for the Democratic Party's long-disputed presidential nomination.
So there he was in Beaverton today at the start of a two- day swing through Oregon, virtually ignoring ...
Obama Campaign Introduces Customized Lapel Pins
suitablyflip.comFound 6 days, 3 hours, 10 minutes, and 44 seconds agoUpdate: Due to overwhelming demand, we have taken the Obama lapel pins from concept phase to the real-world, buyable phase. Get yours for only $1.99 (cheap!). It's the perfect accessory for the ironic Obama supporter, and a wonderful "substitute for true patriotism"! ...
Obama Wants to Be President of 57 States
stoptheaclu.comFound 6 days, 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 45 seconds agoHey, Obama! How many states are there? Well, ummm… we've been to 57 with one left to go , then subtract Hawaii and Alaska…ummmm…. Unbelievable! This guy wants to be the President of the U.S. and doesn't know how many states we have! ...
Sixty States and Hillary is Still in the Race
patterico.comFound 5 days, 22 hours, 37 minutes, and 48 seconds ago[Guest post by DRJ] Everyone else has already posted on this story about Barack Obama so I might as well add my 2 cents. Obama mentioned today that he has already visited 57 states . Various bloggers and news sites speculate he misspoke because he was tired or didn't have his Tele-Prompter and ...
Obama's 57 States & other lessons
theanchoressonline.comFound 6 days, 25 minutes, and 44 seconds agoSure, it's just a goofy, clumsy mispeak that could happen to anyone. The sort of thing I ordinarily wouldn't even write about because we all misspeak. It happens. But…I dunno…I'm not a spiteful sort but it seems like there just needs to be some balance , doesn't it? ...
sandmonkey.org
So we are finally there. Finally, after 3 years of pussyfooting, it's here. Oh boy, where do I begin?
Well, now that the gloves are off, we have become aware of 3 very important facts:
1) Hezbollah has lost its mind and decided to turn their weapons against the lebanese population. ...
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instapundit.com
UPDATE: L.A. Times: "Barack Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States."
ANOTHER UPDATE: Tom Elia: "Personally, I don't think it was a 'tired mistake' as much as this is just how Chicago Democrats are used to counting during elections and election campaigns..."
MORE: "I love the way he pauses and really thinks before adding the '-seven.'"
MORE STILL: Can he spell potato? "This is much worse than anything Dan Quayle ever did." But there's no Obama-is-stupid narrative for it to reinforce.
Found 6 days, 1 hour, 5 minutes, and 42 seconds ago
floppingaces.net
No one believes Obama is that ignorant, so its obviously fatigue. An excuse McCain cannot use I suppose….gotta be old age.
Allah :
Verdict: Dude's lost his bearings.
Heh…
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talkleft.com
The Cannes Film Festival is underway. Sean Penn and Natalie Portman were asked if they were going to jump on the Hollywood A-lister bandwagon and endorse Barack Obama. Sean Penn said:
"I don't have a candidate I'm supporting and I'm certainly interested and excited by the hope that Barack Obama is inspiring," he said, but went on to accuse him of a "phenomenally inhuman and unconstitutional" voting record.
"I hope that he will understand, if he is the nominee, the degree of disillusionment that will happen if he doesn't become a greater man than he will ever be," Penn said.
Found 158 days, 49 minutes, and 7 seconds ago
stoptheaclu.com
Now, the Suitably Flip bloggers gave us a list of the other 7 states, but I think they missed the boat with their choices. After all, they missed one state that the Obama's definitely visit quite often. The state of DENIAL!
And now for a hat tip you won't believe. This funny bit came to my attention through Andrew Malcolm's entry at the Los Angeles Times' Top of the Ticket blog . Yeah, I find it hard to believe they had enough of a sense of humor to throw a dig at their messiah, too.
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rightwingnews.com
Here is one to get you going on a Saturday morning.
Hey, Obama! How many states are there? Well, ummm... we've been to 57 with one left to go , then subtract Hawaii and Alaska...ummmm.... Unbelievable! This guy wants to be the President of the U.S. and doesn't know how many states we have! Surely this was from exhaustion. I just called my eight year old son in here and asked him to tell me what this man just said wrong! His reaction was priceless!
Found 5 days, 14 hours, 27 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
outsidethebeltway.com
Presumably, he meant to say "47 states." Whether he was just tired, thinking of something else, or just someone who shouldn't do math in public, I don't know. I'm pretty sure he's aware of the correct number, in any case.
Still, people are having fun with this. Marc Ambinder muses that, "if John McCain did this -- if he mistakenly said he'd visited 57 states -- the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment."
DRJ does his own math:
Obama has been to "57 states.
Found 5 days, 15 hours, 35 minutes, and 51 seconds ago
normblog.typepad.com
What? Only 57 ? Just like the varieties ? It's been going on that long, the race, I thought there must be at least a hundred of them .
Found 5 days, 11 hours, 31 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
themoderatevoice.com
Will Rush, Sean, O'Reilly, weblogs and Sunday morning news show talking heads turn this into the new issue that will dominate 524 1/2 news cycles?
Will Obama have to make a clarification speech about it?
Will it turn up in Republican campaign ads this fall?
I would say….you can count on it (war planning, war policy, the economy, gas prices, health care can all wait a while..).
Details here.
And discussion HERE.
I mean, this IS the kind of issue people like to talk and rant about, right?
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newsbusters.org
Funny: Charles Barkley gets punked on TNT ( Drew M/Ace )
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freerepublic.com
L.A. Times ^ | May 09, 2008 | Andrew Malcolm
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voxday.blogspot.com
It seems Obama can't count so well :
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tammybruce.com
Barack Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States
In his prepared remarks Obama was ready to start blasting Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, to show the Illinois Democrat is moving on to the general election campaign.
But first the freshman senator had to go through all the obligatory delighted to see you, delighted to be here part of stump speeches that also require that you actually know where you are.
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tonyphyrillas.blogspot.com
Read the full post here .
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right-thinking.com
Counting must be for bitter people: In his prepared remarks Obama was ready to start blasting Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, to show the Illinois Democrat is moving on to the general election campaign.
But first the freshman senator had to go through all the....
...obligatory delighted to see you, delighted to be here part of stump speeches that also require that you actually know where you are.
Obama pulled that off O.K. But then he drifted away from the text a tad, as rookies are wont to do sometimes, forgetting how exhausting this primary process is and should be.
Found 5 days, 23 hours, 45 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
paxalles.blogs.com
"Barack Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States" from the Los Angeles Times reports that Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama has, with a single remark, expanded the stars on that flag pin by seven in a latest campaign schedule comment. "It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
Found 5 days, 23 hours, 45 minutes, and 33 seconds ago
theodoresworld.net
LA Times
Barack Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States
In his prepared remarks Obama was ready to start blasting Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, to show the Illinois Democrat is moving on to the general election campaign.
But first the freshman senator had to go through all the....
...obligatory delighted to see you, delighted to be here part of stump speeches that also require that you actually know where you are.
Obama pulled that off O.
Found 5 days, 19 hours, 39 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
nerepublican.com
"It's wonderful to be back in Oregon". Obama said. Over the last fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to, even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it".
Has this man lost his bearings? Or can we blame it on "Schoolhouse Rock" or that typical white grandmother?
Proposed SAT question: How many states compose the United States if politican (A) has visited 57 states and has one more state to visit which is actually two states?
Found 5 days, 15 hours, 41 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
latimesblogs.latimes.com
Has this aging freshman senator -- he'll be almost 60 in 13 years -- lost his bearings? Are the eight new states caucus or primary? And will Howard Dean bar them from the convention too?
Obama's gaffe caused a noticeable stir online during the day and even the respected Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic anticipated that the political media would kindly write the Democrat's mis-statement off to fatigue. But he wrote if, say, the Republican nominee-to-be had uttered the same silly fatigue flub, it would surely be added to eager suspicions of senility.
Found 5 days, 15 hours, 25 minutes, and 49 seconds ago
scaredmonkeys.com
"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
Marc Ambinder reminds us of the obvious when it comes to the bias main stream liberal media. If John McCain had ever had a gaffe like this "the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment".
Found 5 days, 11 hours, 38 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
brain-terminal.com
Politicians sometimes misspeak. George W. Bush is well-known for it. And if it had been the current president who claimed to have visited 57 states--with one more to go--you'd probably have heard a few dozen jokes about it by now. Perhaps Obama is planning an imperialist presidency, and he accidentally let it slip that we'll soon have a few more states . If so, then maybe he wouldn't be the pushover president I worry he'd be.
Found 5 days, 11 hours, 21 minutes, and 19 seconds ago
blogofascists.com
Though more easily comprehensible, the comical error (or is it what he truly thought?) in Barack Obama's "57 states" statement (HT Newsbusters' John Stephenson ) is nothing compared to the dangerously wrong "history" he recited in his North Carolina Primary victory speech Tuesday night.
Friday, at Real Clear Politics , Jack Kelly recounted the Illinois Senator's egregious error, and its frightening implications (bolds are mine throughout):
Obama Needs a History Lesson
In his victory speech after the North Carolina primary, Sen.
Found 5 days, 10 hours, 36 minutes, and 59 seconds ago
yikes101.blogspot.com
( UPDATE: At a later stop Obama was talking with reporters and expressed concern he'd also mis-stated the number of potential cyclone victims in Burma. He said, ""I hope I said 100,000 people the first time instead of 100 million. I understand I said there were 57 states today. It's a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, uh." At that point, an aide cut him off and ushered journalists out. Before he could mis-speak again?)
Found 5 days, 9 hours, 34 minutes, and 15 seconds ago
lightseekinglight.blogspot.com
Show your solidarity with the frustrated and oppressed peoples of the Obamination. Get your lapel pin showing all 57 states here .
Found 5 days, 9 hours, 12 minutes, and 22 seconds ago
directorblue.blogspot.com
• Suitably Flip unveils the Barack Obama patriotic flag lapel pin featuring all 57 states he's visited. Shush ... don't discuss the fact that Obama could be losing his bearings .
Found 5 days, 7 hours, 27 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
theendzone.blogspot.com
displaying a custom made 57 state lapel pin !
Found 5 days, 7 hours, 27 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
pawatercooler.com
Show your solidarity with the pathologically frustrated and oppressed peoples of the Obamination. Get your lapel pin showing all 57 states here .
Found 5 days, 7 hours, 27 minutes, and 16 seconds ago
weeklystandard.com
HT: Suitably Flip
Found 5 days, 6 hours, 56 minutes, and 1 second ago
blognetnews.com
[Guest post by DRJ]
Everyone else has already posted on this story about Barack Obama so I might as well add my 2 cents.
Obama mentioned today that he has already visited 57 states . Various bloggers and news sites speculate he misspoke because he was tired or didn't have [...]
Found 5 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
bobagard.blogspot.com
So Barack Obama wants to be President of these "57" states? Remember when Dan Quayle was relentlessly ridiculed for misspelling potato as "potatoe"? I am sure that will not happen with Obama, though, because he is the clear choice of the "journalists" of the MSM.
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maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com
Truman met with Joseph Stalin during and after World War II, but that didn't stop the Soviets from blockading West Berlin or ringing down an iron curtain across eastern Europe, enslaving those nations for almost 50 years. If Potsdam and Yalta are Obama's idea of successful foreign policy, then he obviously hasn't studied 20th century history. Talking with implacable tyrants leads to appeasement, which leads to either war or more implacability of the tyranny in question. Geography must not have been another subject Obama was good at, as he claimed America has 57 , not 50 states .
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faustasblog.com
Via anonymous in the comments section, Obamaâs 57 States & other lessons
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scotbrit.blogspot.com
LA Times
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ascrivenerslament.blogspot.com
At a later stop Obama was talking with reporters and expressed concern he'd also mis-stated the number of potential cyclone victims in Burma. He said,
Found 4 days, 15 hours, 37 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
alphapatriot.com
Bloggers and main stream media alike have been having a bit of fun with Obama's little mistake. My favorite is from Suitably Flip, which has come up with a special 57-star American flag lapel pin in Obama's honor. Given the internet and email rumors that have plagued the Obama campaign about his refusal to wear an American Flag pin on his lapel, this bit of humor is particularly droll. Of course, if George W. had of made this mistake, there would no end to the declarations of further proof of his lack of intelligence and it would join the long list of "Bushisms" that have become so popular among the left-leaning elitists.
Found 4 days, 13 hours, 44 minutes, and 17 seconds ago
amerpundit.com
A truly, truly amazing man Barack Obama is. He wants you to know that he's not going to be president of the blue states or the red states, but rather all 57 states of America!
"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
The Times' conscientious Robin Abcarian thought she heard something different there.
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blognetnews.com
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hyscience.com
I thought this guy graduated from Harvard and has a law degree. Hmmm..., I guess Harvard doesn't teach real American history or geography. Else, he's " loosing his bearings. "
Be sure to take the time to read Andrew Malcolm's humorous quips at the LAT on Obama's misspeaks.
Other coverage: Pink Flamingo , Jawa Report , Hot Air .
While we're on Obama gaffes, remember these?
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taylormarsh.com
UPDATE: At a later stop Obama was talking with reporters and expressed concern he'd also mis-stated the number of potential cyclone victims in Burma. He said, ""I hope I said 100,000 people the first time instead of 100 million. I understand I said there were 57 states today. It's a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, uh." At that point, an aide cut him off and ushered journalists out. Before he could mis-speak again?)
Oh, and as far as Hawaii voters are concerned, they're probably delighted to learn that Obama's campaign staff doesn't think that tiny state can justify an appearance by his eminence, even though he did a lot of growing up there.
Found 5 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
politics.boogietrain.nl
An amusing gaffe from Barack Obama: "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
Presumably, he meant to say "47 states." Whether he was just tired, thinking of something else, or just someone who shouldn't do math in public, I don't know. I'm pretty sure he's aware of the correct number, in any case.
Found 5 days, 14 hours, 44 minutes, and 10 seconds ago
alfin2100.blogspot.com
That's not counting the existing states of Alaska and Hawaii, he said, which his staff decided aren't important enough to visit. __ LAT
Found 5 days, 9 hours, 38 minutes, and 25 seconds ago
thinkingonthemargin.blogspot.com
UPDATE: L.A. Times: "Barack Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States." ANOTHER UPDATE: Tom Elia: "Personally, I don't think it was a 'tired mistake' as much as this is just how Chicago Democrats are used to counting during elections and election campaigns..." MORE: "I love the way he pauses and really thinks before adding the '-seven.'" MORE STILL: Can he spell potato? "This is much worse than anything Dan Quayle ever did." But there's no Obama-is-stupid narrative for it to reinforce.
Found 4 days, 22 hours, 4 minutes ago
texasholdemblogger.wordpress.com
I am wondering when we admitted seven new states into the union. And which ones they are to be exact.
Barack Hussein Obama recently told a crowd in Oregon that he had visited 57 states during his presidential campaign.
That's right. 57 states.
Says blogger Andrew Malcolm of al-Los Angeles Times:
Has this aging freshman senator -- he'll be almost 60 in 13 years -- lost his bearings? Are the eight new states caucus or primary? And will Howard Dean bar them from the convention too?
Here's the incontrovertible video evidence:
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advanceindiana.blogspot.com
A top Middle Eastern advisor to Sen. Barack Obama, Rob Malley, resigned from the campaign after the Times of London disclosed that he had been meeting with the Hamas terrorist group. Sen. Obama criticized former President Jimmy Carter for his recent meeting with Hamas leaders. Obama said of Carter's decision to meet with Hamas:
Found 4 days, 14 hours, 22 minutes, and 20 seconds ago
thevoice.name
Hey, Obama! How many states are there? Well, ummm…we’ve been to 57 with one left to go, then subtract Hawaii and Alaska…ummmm…. Unbelievable! This guy wants to be the President of the U.S. and doesn’t know how many states we have! Surely this was from exhaustion. I just called my eight year old son in here and asked him to tell me what this man just said wrong! His reaction was priceless!
Found 5 days, 23 hours, 37 minutes, and 3 seconds ago
reluctantoptimist.wordpress.com
In honor of his remarkable, indeed unprecedented, travel to 57 states .
From Suitably Flip .
In case you missed it, this is in reference to this:
Found 5 days, 12 hours, 31 minutes, and 40 seconds ago
yikes101.wordpress.com
"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
( UPDATE: At a later stop Obama was talking with reporters and expressed concern he'd also mis-stated the number of potential cyclone victims in Burma. He said, ""I hope I said 100,000 people the first time instead of 100 million.
Found 5 days, 10 hours, 6 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
britandgrit.com
Barack Hussein Obama, said this in a campaign speech:
"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
Found 5 days, 6 hours, 38 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
nicedeb.wordpress.com
Check it out over at Suitably Flip.
The reason I haven't said anything about this latest gaffe of Obama's is because everybody knows these slips of the tongue on the campaign trail happen to all politicians at one time or another.
A couple of thoughts, though, first the most obvious one: If McCain had said this, it would have been covered exhaustively in newspapers all across the country; it would have been evidence of him being an old man "losing his bearings", and it would haunt him relentlessly all the way to election day.
Found 4 days, 21 hours, 45 minutes, and 14 seconds ago
publiusforum.blogtownhall.com
Now, the Suitably Flip bloggers gave us a list of the other 7 states, but I think they missed the boat with their choices. After all, they missed one state that the Obama's definitely visit quite often. The state of DENIAL!
And now for a hat tip you won't believe. This funny bit came to my attention through Andrew Malcolm's entry at the Los Angeles Times' Top of the Ticket blog . Yeah, I find it hard to believe they had enough of a sense of humor to throw a dig at their messiah, too.
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buttle.wordpress.com
If he'll wear it , of course.
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reluctantoptimist.wordpress.com
With some commentary here , here , and here . Great line: "Can He Spell 'Potato?'"
Found 6 days, 2 hours, 17 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com
It does seem that many are having a little fun with this story and one blogger, Suitably Flip , has even created and unveiled a new lapel pin for Obama, and American flag with 57 stars which seems to have amused the LA Times blog .
Found 5 days, 10 hours, 10 minutes ago
strangemonkeydoll.com
An examination of Mr. Obama's numerous public statements on the subjects indicates that he has consistently condemned Hamas as a "terrorist organization," has not sought the group's support and does not advocate immediate, direct or unconditional negotiations with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president. (emphasis mine)
So, like what Obama said at this CNN debate:
Question: In 1982, Anwar Sadat traveled to Israel, a trip that resulted in a peace agreement that has lasted ever since. In the spirit of that type of bold leadership, would you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries?
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