Obama's 57 State Goof Isn't the Real Story
In a gaffe that is common in any long campaign, Barrack Obama claimed that he has visited 57 states with "one left to go".
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.
But far more frightening than this slip of Obama's tongue took during his victory speech for the North Carolina primary, when he made the outrageous claim that Roosevelt, Kennedy and Truman all talked to our enemies:
Real Clear Politics has an excellent article by Jack Kelly in which he destroys this historical misrepresentation clearly, concisely and pithily. Money quote:
The closest historical analogue to Sen. Obama's expressed desire to meet with no preconditions with anti-American dictators such as Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the trip British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French premier Eduoard Daladier took to Munich in September of 1938 to negotiate "peace in our time" with Adolf Hitler. That didn't work out so well.
And so I will not join those poking fun at Obama's slip. He obviously meant to say 47 states, with "one more to come". No, what I find most curious about this clip is when he states that he "really wanted to go" to Alaska and Hawaii, but couldn't because his staff "couldn't justify it".
Obama, who is running your campaign? If I ran for president I would listen to my staff, but if I "really wanted" to do something, I would do it. If they convinced me otherwise, then I would say that I had decided that it would not be in the campaign's best interest. In other words, it would be my decision.
But not Obama. He does what his handlers tell him. He came right out and told us so.
And this is the man that wants to run the most powerful nation in the history of the world?
I just can't justify voting for this history-ignorant, no-experience puppet.
Blog post #6982 in category
Obama, Barack
posted 10 May 08