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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: 1035rep

Exactly! He’s a security risk.


161 posted on 05/09/2008 8:47:18 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Change.....that's what we will have left in our pockets if a Democrat gets elected president!)
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To: Verbosus

162 posted on 05/09/2008 8:49:12 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: Charles Henrickson
I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii.

The 57 states part was bad enough but, wow, words just fail me.

163 posted on 05/09/2008 8:49:53 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: umgud
There are 49 states plus California.

Perhaps he's counting "City States", like San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Boston, in the total.

164 posted on 05/09/2008 8:50:11 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: Jo Nuvark
What a dingbat!



One has to wonder.
165 posted on 05/09/2008 8:50:47 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: Fundamentally Fair; All

Remember when President Bush was running for for the Presidensy and some snarky reporter asked him who the President of Pakistan was and G.W couldn’t name him. The LSM was all over it.


166 posted on 05/09/2008 8:50:53 PM PDT by Kaslin (Peace is the aftermath of victory)
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To: Fundamentally Fair; All

Remember when President Bush was running for for the Presidency and some snarky reporter asked him who the President of Pakistan was and G.W couldn’t name him. The LSM was all over it.


167 posted on 05/09/2008 8:51:18 PM PDT by Kaslin (Peace is the aftermath of victory)
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To: Verbosus

Has Obama gone through too much of his life graded on a different curve?


168 posted on 05/09/2008 8:52:52 PM PDT by M203M4 (True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
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To: Verbosus

Clearly Obama has lost his bearings.


169 posted on 05/09/2008 8:53:31 PM PDT by JRochelle (Keep sweet means shut up and take it.)
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To: Das Outsider

We are in such big trouble.
May God help us.


170 posted on 05/09/2008 8:53:40 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Verbosus; Das Outsider; Fundamentally Fair; Old_Professor

[... Obama has visited 57 states...]

ADD

The State of Confusion
The State of Denial
The State of Awareness
The State of Bewilderment
The State of the Union
The State of the Nation
The State of the Future

Now you have 57 states.


171 posted on 05/09/2008 8:54:51 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

We’re just having some fun. Give it a rest.


172 posted on 05/09/2008 8:56:42 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: svcw
My gawd the man is a buffoon.

Yeah... The threshold must be lower for the democratic candidates...

173 posted on 05/09/2008 9:01:19 PM PDT by John123 (Fluoride is NOT a neuro-toxin. It is a cavity fighter in spite of NO PEER Reviewed PROOF!)
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To: Kaslin
Thank You Kaslin. I was just thinking the exact same thought.

If this was President Bush the quote would have been the lead joke on Leno, Letterman and Jon Stewart's show.

The lefties would have have a field day but when one of their own uses fuzzy math, crickets.

174 posted on 05/09/2008 9:01:30 PM PDT by A message
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To: Verbosus

Obama is losing his bearings.


175 posted on 05/09/2008 9:02:09 PM PDT by Kleebo151
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To: Huck

In my case, it wasn’t memorization by rote; I actually wrote the Chamber of Commerce in each of the fifty state capitals and asked for brochures and other information so I could learn about each state. The Vermont Chamber of Commerce in Montpelier even sent me a small slab of marble!


176 posted on 05/09/2008 9:02:52 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Change.....that's what we will have left in our pockets if a Democrat gets elected president!)
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To: Verbosus

I guess Obama’s just too young to know it’s 50 states.

After all, if McCain made this gaffe, it’s old age.


177 posted on 05/09/2008 9:04:46 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Hoodlum91
I think that’s total of 60 - 57 he’s been to, one more to go, plus Hawaii and Alaska.

He didn't say plus. The one state to go was Alaska/Hawaii. They've merged to form the 58th state.

178 posted on 05/09/2008 9:11:45 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: Verbosus

The slip-up is that he was not supposed to let out that he is prepared to annex a large portion of Canada, focusing on mostly bordering provinces:

British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Ontario
Quebec
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick

There, that will make 57 states and
he’ll just leave the other provinces alone. Oh, he mentioned one more? Well maybe he’s planning to add the Yukon to his list....


179 posted on 05/09/2008 9:13:35 PM PDT by Enchante (Obama: My 1930s Foreign Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Social Policy!)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Is that an ad for a new toothpaste?
(Gosh, isn’t he cute?)


180 posted on 05/09/2008 9:14:15 PM PDT by kaycee (The time has come, the Walrus said, to speak of many things.)
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