[Uncle Sham]

"one should recognize that Obama would not be president if he had failed."

I agree. That's why my suspicions are that we currently do not have a President.

27+2 = 29, where is the other dollar?

They paid a TOTAL of 27, not 30. Of the 27, 25 went to the hotel and the other "2" went to the bellhop.

[frog in a pot]

Thank you for responding, the example really was not an attempt to trick you or play games, after all we are on the same side of the larger argument. As expected, you immediately noted an equation with the terms 27,2 and 29 was inconsistent with the event.

To put a practical (even disturbing) light on the matter, imagine the response if we ask any enlisted member of the military services (with perhaps a handful of notable exceptions) for the name of the president in the oath they swore.