I don’t see how it could be a political statement, unless he campaigned in the Northern Mariana Islands even though they send no delegates to the DNC — strictly speaking, they’re not truly “abroad”.
District of Columbia
Puerto Rico (has he been there yet?)
Guam
Virgin Islands
American Samoa
and his very favorite,
Democrats Abroad
The first 5 comes from crap like this littered throughout the United States Code:
(e) the term “State” means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands;
(43 U.S.C. 2102(e))
— even though a higher authority (the U.S. Constitution) defines the term “State” in a completely different fashion.
After all, even if you factor in the territories (and I suspect he was not doing that), his math still doesn't work out right.
Perhaps Herr Hussein Obama is adding Israel to the number?... Or is it the Palestinian territories instead? The way things are going we’ll be lucky to complete ten more years without becoming a colony of China and a territory of OPEC. Give the dolt a break, he’s misspeaking more without his teleprompter ... he’s visited a few states more than once, hence his ‘57’ remark.