Posted on 04/10/2015 2:08:14 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
The geopolitics of presidential visits sometimes is news, like when Presidents are unpopular in a state where the governor comes from the President's party. Yet recent Presidents have traveled so much - Barack Obama included - that some trips aren't that newsworthy, except in the places the Commander in Chief visits.
But when Obama landed in Utah last week it was the 49th state he'd visited since his inauguration in 2009. The math made it more newsworthy than normal because it's down to one Obama-less state - South Dakota.
Your correspondent's home state.
The land of the Black Hills, Badlands, Wall Drug, George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, Tom Brokaw and the young actress who plays Betty Francis in "Mad Men." And rolling prairies that snarky scribes have called miles and miles of miles and miles.
Who can blame Obama?
South Dakota hasn't voted for a Democrat for President since Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964. Although it frequently elects Democrats for Congress, it is so relentlessly Republican for President that it even went against favorite son McGovern in 1972, choosing Richard Nixon, something that McGovern always considered among his top disappointments.
Not to say that the Nixon landslide would have been any less massive, but losing your home state?
That was something McGovern and Al Gore could always share. Had Gore won his home state Tennessee in 2000, Florida's hanging chads wouldn't even be historic footnotes.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
I would not be surprised if witch doctor bongo took the controls of AF1 and flew it into Mount Rushmoore as revenge on whitey. All the while screaming Allahu Akhbar!
Scary but within the realm of possibility in the USA now.
Trying to scare the bald eagles is not nice...
Issue an exec. order to have his backside carved in the mountain along with the other faces as a final item before leaving office so we never forget the contempt he has for the US.
he’d most likely have the presidents replaced by cop killers and pedophiles
49th ?............only 8 more to go, then...........
Crazy Horse..........to Crazy Whores?..........
Great imams?
I expect he will soon want to visit his site there (the NW end of the Chief Crazy Horse Monument).
LOL
Yuck.
Knowing him,, it’ll probably be a sculpture of his rear end.
Nah, wrong! They are presently hauling a 200 ton lump of coal out to Mt. Rushmore. They still have the engineering problem of how to hoist it up.
“Is Obama saving Mount Rushmore for last”
Nope, He next wants the UN and then after that Putins Soviet Union.
Quite frankly those of us in South Dakota would hope he never comes here.
When I saw the headline I was afraid it meant that Obama was going to demand that the heads of the Presidents be removed from Mt. Rushmore, in preparation for returning the Black Hills to the Indians.
Why would anyone want a visit? Seriously. Stay away.
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