Can you imagine if McCain or any repub made that mistake? The lamestream media would be all over it with McCain is old or senile or if it was W it would be how dumb he is but this empty suit says it and hey it’s golden!
McCain has made more substantial mis-statements. McCain’s boast that he can save $100 billion “before you look at any agency of government” is flatly false. His economic adviser tells us that budget cuts cannot, “by definition,” arise simply by eliminating earmarks. Instead, McCain’s plan is to scrub $100 billion from the discretionary budget. And those cuts are not at all linked up to past earmark spending.
McCain’s attempt to conflate earmark reform with budget cuts is a bit of logical sleight-of-hand (a formal logical fallacy that philosophers call an undistributed middle).
57 is obviously not what Obama meant. It was most likely 47, not 57.
However, he could have been thinking of the 57 Democratic Primaries. There are 57.
57 primaries =
50 States
+Plus
Washington, D.C.
+Plus
U.S. Territories
* American Samoa
* Guam
* Marianas
* Puerto Rico
* U.S. Virgin Islands
+Plus
Democrats overseas in other locations (United States Airmen, Marines, Soldiers, Reservists, Seamen overseas, U.S. ambassadors to foreign embassies, U.S. bases contractors, AAFES (BX/PX) employees, etc.)
=
57 Primary Locations