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Barack Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States
L.A. Times ^ | May 09, 2008 | Andrew Malcolm

Posted on 05/09/2008 6:05:00 PM PDT by Verbosus

Quote:
"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."

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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
My God! This man shouldn’t be allowed to work as a White House gardener, much less be president.

One thing for sure, he never would have passed the security clearance. 

81 posted on 05/09/2008 7:00:01 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Allegra
I can only name 50 of 'em.

That's what happens when you cling to your guns and your religion. You lose touch with reality. Not to worry, Obama has the answers (hope, change, etc.).

82 posted on 05/09/2008 7:02:12 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: Verbosus

Of course it’s a monstrous gaffe.

But here’s what I think happened.

His brain combined two distinctly different numbers about the states.

There are 50 states. That number was somewhere in his brain.

There are only 48 that will be counted under the Obama primary scheme regarding Michigan and Florida.

OR:AND: He hasn’t been to three of the fifty but two of them he isn’t going to, and one he still plans to visit.

His mind was blown and could not handle these various numbers so it combined them into an impossible mess.


83 posted on 05/09/2008 7:02:12 PM PDT by txrangerette (Just say "no" to the Obama Cult and the Clinton Machine!!)
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To: Delta 21

This is supposed to be America’s next great leader.

Will we continue to watch this empty suit play with his crotch each time other loyal Americans are paying respect to the flag that so many innocent, brave heros spilled their blood for so that the rest of us could live free?

obamwama is a sham and without any respect for the flag and country he want to serve as it highest leader.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!


84 posted on 05/09/2008 7:04:12 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: Allegra

How to spot an Obama constituent:


85 posted on 05/09/2008 7:08:13 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Fred Nerks

LOL

Thanks

If Bush made this mistake it would be all over the press for days.


86 posted on 05/09/2008 7:08:19 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/05/020481.php

He’s been confused about it before, too!


87 posted on 05/09/2008 7:09:19 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Verbosus

bump


88 posted on 05/09/2008 7:09:26 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Verbosus

Naw, it was just a mistake he was thinking of 57 varieties of Ketchup.


89 posted on 05/09/2008 7:09:26 PM PDT by bilhosty
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To: Verbosus
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90 posted on 05/09/2008 7:11:02 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
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To: spotbust1

Save it though. Might be worth something.


91 posted on 05/09/2008 7:11:21 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

LOL...thanks for the tip.


92 posted on 05/09/2008 7:13:31 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: svcw
"My gawd the man is a buffoon. "

Yes he is, but isn't he an eloquent buffoon? Something tells me you might want to get used to it.

93 posted on 05/09/2008 7:14:18 PM PDT by OKSooner
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To: Verbosus

I think he was going to say 50 states and then was corrected by his staff and meant to say 47 after being corrected.


94 posted on 05/09/2008 7:14:25 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: george76
"If Bush made this mistake it would be all over the press for days."

Give the news media two weeks and they'll have 60% of all college students believing that Bush *did* say it.

Heck, just try asking Abe Lincoln's political party and most Harvard students will say "Democratic Party."

...society has been dumbed down.

95 posted on 05/09/2008 7:14:42 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Old Professer; Jo Nuvark
Now I know who he reminds me of every time I see him - “Did I do that!!!!?”

Astounding!

Obamaurkel ping!
96 posted on 05/09/2008 7:14:42 PM PDT by Das Outsider ("A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."--G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Allegra

Well, let’s see, there’s also Puerto Rico and Guam . . .


97 posted on 05/09/2008 7:15:49 PM PDT by Lady Jag ( I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra - https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: Raycpa

I’d agree that’s it just a gaffe if he hadn’t been confused about the number before.

AP meeting April 14th:

And I’ve now campaigned in 47 states, actively. And I think South Dakota is the last state that I have not had a campaign event in.
Now that doesn’t mean that I expect that I will win all 50 — or 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii — all 50 states.


98 posted on 05/09/2008 7:17:39 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Verbosus
He obviously studied "Million Man Math."

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99 posted on 05/09/2008 7:19:40 PM PDT by R_Kangel (`.`)
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To: Verbosus

I played this for my wife. She said “what’s his problem?”

Then said “one state left to go”, and she said “The state of Confusion?”


100 posted on 05/09/2008 7:20:13 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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