Obama stated in "every corner of the US", which means one continental land mass. This exclude Puerto Rico and others.

You'd be reaching anyway to excuse for Obama like that.

There is no excuse. It is shameful. You should know the number of states in your sleep. It should be second-nature.

Stop reaching. It was just Obama's anti-American character coming out.

Gee, I am less worried about Obama not knowing how many states there are in the USA than about how he wants to invade Pakistan if they don't adhere to his desires as to how much effort they are making to combat Al-Qaida. Hell, even George Bush was elected after not knowing the names of the leaders of some obscure African countires. But he did learn them and repeated them soon after. I hope that Obama will now recite the names of the 50 states. Ah, hell. It doesn't really matter does it? We will all just have to learn a few names of regions of the NAU soon anyways.

edited for spelling errors. did i get them all? No edit required for my rantings as I am not in control of them.

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so the word fifty came out instead of forty. I've made similar mistakes. The big deal is what exactly?

Originally posted by screamo
It seems to me that he meant to say 47 states. It slides right in. Under the pressure of all the cams and various eyes and countless news programs ripping his words apart and overanalyzing everything, i'm surprised he (and the other candidates) haven't messed up more often.

Hmmmm, well yeah, I am sure campaigning is very tiresome, I even gave the guy some credit for being tired.

So in your opinion, is campaigning more tiresome than being President, of these 57 states? LOL!

You gotta be kidding me!

If he becomes President, and if he messes up, will being tired fly as an excuse?

This little mistake is pretty darn scary, in my opinion! As well as being humorous!

Originally posted by evanmontegarde
This man graduated from Harvard Law School, a simple slip up like this only proves he's human.

Well said =]

I think he might have meant to say 47? I dunno. I say more stupider things all the time and I am brilliant

Or...as Dr. Love said, maybe he knows something we don't! Oh... I hope one of them is Tibet!!

Originally posted by bigbert81

I don't think I've ever heard anything as ridiculous and just plain stupid as 'he made a slip of the tongue, so that means he's going to make a huge slip-up in office'. Use some logic.

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Logic would stand to reason, that you are not Obama, therefore you don't know for sure it was just a slip of the tongue.

I think it's pretty ridiculous and stupid for you to assume so.

Originally posted by bigbert81

Really?

It's stupid for me to assume that a Harvard educated man knows how many states there are?

What a sad world we live in when we are critiqued so.

And now, apparently it's gone from a slip up to 'he has no idea'.

Use your head.

I guess it would depend on what he majored in at Harvard. Quite possibly his studies had nothing to do with geography. Use your head! Maybe he never thought he would need that information!







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