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Sort by Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) - 05/09/2008 - YouTube
Obama Claims He's Visited 57 States
At a campaign event in Beaverton, OR, Obama claimed to have visited 57 U.S. states during the campaign.
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From The "If McCain Did This" Files
Sort by Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) - 05/09/2008
Obama, below, is tired, nothing more. But 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. Just saying....
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More Sunday Funnies New Offer: 57 State Lapel Pin
Sort by NewsBusters (Free subscription) - 05/11/2008
A few days ago we reported that Barack Obama was ever so proud to have visited all "57 states" on his campaign swing. But, we noticed that he still avoids wearing that U.S. flag lapel pin, just the same. Well, we have finally found out why Barack Obama won't wear that darned ol' U.S. flag pin. Until now he couldn't find one with all "57 States" on it. Well, the folks over at Suitably Flip blog have...
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Can He Spell "Potato?"
Sort by Power Line (Free subscription) - 05/10/2008
Yesterday Barack Obama said that John McCain was "losing his bearings," a remark that McCain's campaign, perhaps protesting too much, took as a reference to his age. In fact, though, it is Obama, not McCain, who keeps having senior moments. In particular, Obama is weirdly unable to remember how many states there are in the Union. We noted Obama's confusion here : And I've now campaigned in 47 states,...
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Sort by Red State (Free subscription) - 05/10/2008
Shall we engage in some gently mockery? Yes, we shall : And to paraphrase Vader, my high school civics teacher has failed me for the last time. Fifty states? I scoff! We have far more than fifty : Of course, if John McCain said this, we would have heard about how old he is he has "lost his bearings."
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Obama Wants to Be President of 57 States
Sort by Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) - 05/10/2008
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! Suitably...
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"I've been to 57 states."
Sort by Althouse (Free subscription) - 05/10/2008
Whoops! Who's losing it now? I love the way he pauses and really thinks before adding the "-seven." AND: Let's try to make a list of the 9 additional states Obama envisions in our audaciously hopeful collection of states. (I'm saying 9 not 7 because he asserts that he's been to 2 less than the total.)
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Obama Wants to be President of all 57 States
Sort by Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) - 05/10/2008
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...
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Another Stockdale Moment for Obama
Sort by Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) - 05/10/2008
Ambinder assures us that Obama is simply "tired, nothing more." I guess he was also pretty tired last week when he didn't know what month it was, or how many months were left until the election (he thought it...
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Everything is Twice (Maybe 2 1/2 Times) As Bad As You Thought . . .
Sort by Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) - 07/21/2008
Well, get used to it. Obama is going to be our President for the next eight to ten years. Whew. That’s a long time to govern 57 states. UPDATE: My mistake. It’s actually 58, if you watch the clip.
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Barack Obama and John McCain: Online Videos To Tickle The Funny Bone
Sort by BlogHer (Free subscription) - 06/24/2008
Back in February on Super Tuesday I posted "Super Online Videos For Super Tuesday." Now that the primaries are over and the official presidential campaign is in full swing, I don't know about you, but I'm ready for a few laughs. What better way to get them then by checking out the latest online videos that take a humorous look at the campaign and the candidates?
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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #288
Sort by Towleroad (Free subscription) - 05/12/2008
QUAKE: Magnitude 7.8 earthquake hits central China. Death toll up to 9000. FATIGUE?: At a campaign stop in Beaverton, Oregon, Barack Obama says he's visited all 57 states. BREAKING THE DINNER CODE: Radio host Michael Smerconish compares Arianna Huffington to...
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Obama Visited 57 States?
Sort by Flopping Aces (Free subscription) - 05/10/2008
If McCain made this mistake you can bet your ass that Obama’s camp would be all over it calling it more evidence of his age: 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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Barack Obama, Gaffe Factory
Sort by Say Anything (Free subscription) - 05/26/2008
If Dan Quayle were dead he'd be rolling in his grave. The left made a laughingstock out of him for misspelling 'potato' with an 'e' (once an acceptable spelling of that word) and implied that Quayle was a moron, a dummy, and unfit for office. Well what does that make Barack Obama then? Here is a guy who thinks there are 58 states in the union. He thinks Arkansas is closer to Illinois than Kentucky....
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Has Obama “lost his bearings”?
Sort by Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) - 05/10/2008
The LA Times Top of the Ticket blog reports that Obama stated at a campaign stop in Oregon yesterday that he wants to be president of “these 57 states”: 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 [...]
