Interesting video of Obama, in Oregon, back in May ‘08, saying he’s visited “57 states”. It’s bad enough that he gets the number wrong. But some have questioned whether 57 was a freudian slip.
Turns out that there are 57 member states in the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. If you’re going to misstate the number of U.S. states, 57 is a bizarre number to just spontaneously come up with. I am not for a moment suggesting that Obama is currently a Muslim or that merely being Muslim should disquality one for the presidency. But why 57, of all the numbers in the universe?
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Kleiglights 08.12.08 at 11:56 am
He makes it even worse, by 1)hesitating when he comes up with this strange number, obviously giving it thought. It was not a “slip” made in haste. He ponders, wonders and then chooses a number. Then said that there were two more he had not yet visited, Alaska and an afterthought, Hawaii. So behold, under Obama we have 59 states. He grew up in Hawaii, does not think it a state?
There is no way Obama can be excused for this slip. The number he chose is more than coincidence, and the ignorance or indifference to this country he displays is outrageous. Don’t tell me this man is brilliant. Yeah, sure, he’s a Harvard Law grad, but more and more it is clear how he got there. It was with affirmative action, not on the basis of his mind.
April 38 08.12.08 at 12:05 pm
Oh, I get it. Obama thinks the United States IS the SAME as the Organisation of Islamic States. Or that, if he takes office, we will become the 58th Islamic State. It wasn’t a Freudian slip, then: it was a prophetic statement.
Or, to play the Conspiracy Game, was it –ta-da!– a coded message to his Muslim donors that he has got THEIR message, and that pause was just to give cover? Endorsements and donations from the likes of Louis Farrakhan and friends do have a price; it is never free money. Well, who knows — other than Obama and his Muslim supporters. Conclusions can’t be drawn, but questions must be raised anyway.
April 38 08.12.08 at 12:06 pm
And thanks for raising the questions, Kurt.
cheese 08.12.08 at 1:53 pm
If he was being judged by the content of his caracter he would have never made it as far as he is!!
Pliggy 08.12.08 at 1:55 pm
Ha ha ha ha! That is funny!
I have a co-worker who runs one of the most disturbing anti-Obama blogs out there and he pointed this out to me a while ago.
Obama’s freudian slip was the “fifity” not the “seven”, he meant forty. I think Obama is a Socialist and closet Black-Liberation theologist. (Which is semi-Muslims and semi-Christian.) I think people should be free to believe whatever they want, but he definately is left of McCain, at least for now. I wouldn’t vote for either.
And I like to collect these quotes, here are a couple that the left use:
“Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?” – George W Bush
“In my line of work you’ve got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to catapult the propaganda” – George W Bush
“You know one of the hardest parts about my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror” –George W Bush
“If it were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier; just so long as I’m the dictator” -George W. Bush
My political motto is: The only thing worse than voting for a Republican, is voting for a Democrat. :O)
Kurt Schulzke 08.12.08 at 6:22 pm
I think we have to take him at his word — he got hit in the head with a rock.
Rip Van 08.12.08 at 8:00 pm
Pliggy, if you don’t vote for either, you are giving each of them half a vote. Fence sitting is irresponsible. Vote for one or the other. If you are right of McCain, go half the way and vote for pro-life and for American independence. If you are left of McCain, then I guess it is a toss up, isn’t it?
amberrose 08.12.08 at 8:00 pm
and so the question remains, which is the lesser of the two evils, republic or democrat. I just wish someone would run that was honest. No wonder so few americans vote, even if we get a good person we are so busy tearing them down we probably wouldn’t notice. I am in no way for Obama I agree with Kurt.
dcmv 08.12.08 at 8:58 pm
Don’t worry, Bush is taking care of the election problem this year.
Pliggy 08.13.08 at 1:15 am
Rip Van,
The irresponsible thing to do is to vote because it is the popular thing to do.
Our Presidential election process is so out of whack that it is pointless to vote in the general election for either of them. A Utah Democrats voice will never be heard, and a New York Republicans vote does not count, no matter what anyone says to the contrary. There is a reason for the term “swing state”. If you live in one of them, yes your vote does count.
I voted in the Republican Primary, and I voted for Ron Paul. I will NOT hold my nose and vote for John McWalkingstick, it would be against my conscience. If I have to see a Globalist in the whitehouse again, I would rather a D next to his name than an R. I will vote for Bob Barr, or whomever is the Constitutional party candidate. But you cannot win if you are honest, the Federal Reserve Church has too powerful a lobby.
Rip Van 08.13.08 at 4:28 pm
Dearest Pliggy: ME vote because it is the “popular thing to do”? Nonsense. What planet are you on? I have never done anything because it was the popular thing to do. Like Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, I don’t give a _____ .
What makes you think it is “popular” to vote? What percentage of the adult population is even registered? Of those, how many actually get to the polls?
And I will let you in on a little secret. You know those little stickers they give you at the polls that say “I’ve voted, have you?” I always leave those — at the polls.
Why? Because if someone is not motivated enough to vote without being reminded, I would just as soon he/she stayed at home.
But your voting for Ron Paul says it all. That would be against my conscience, big time. Ron Paul is so far out of it that — in one of the primary debates — he argued against positions on Iraq that not ONE of the other candidates had taken. All the way through those debates, it was obvious that he just did not get it. Those who vote for Ron Paul (or Bob Barr) will get us the president they deserve: Obama. Just like those who voted for the Little General got us Bill Clinton.
Pliggy 08.14.08 at 2:16 pm
I apologize for offending you Rip Van. I did not mean to. I wasn’t talking about you specifically, I was talking about the majority of those who DO vote. If people really knew how it works, they would petiton for “change”
in the electoral college system.
Read up on the Electoral College, and how that in every state but two, ALL of the electors vote for one candidate, there is no split of electoral college votes for the state. That means if the state has ONE vote difference in the popular vote ALL of the electors vote with that majority. So don’t fret over my vote, it won’t count for the winner. Go petition those in the “swing states”
And to be honest, the “pro-life” McWalkingstick doesn’t exist. The “American Independance” McWalkingstick doesn’t exist.
The “drill for oil now” McWalkingstick is merely rhetorical.
The “build the fence” McWalkingstick is lying.
AND Ron Paul was the ONLY one with a Constitutional stand on the war in Iraq. THE ONLY ONE. He was not against the war as much as he was against the NON DECLARED war. Ron Paul actually wrote a Declaration of War against Iraq bill for Congress in 2002, and no one voted for it. The war in Iraq was Congress’ blunder as much or more than it was Bush. I was anti-war, but pro-surge In fact I am pro Surge-surge Put everyone from Germany and Japan in Iraq and Afghanistan for 2 years, then get out or make it our 51st and 2nd States. BO was right in the first (if you trust him, I don’t) and McWalkingstick was right in the second. Hillbillery was wrong on both.
My political motto: “Read My Lips, Its The Economy Stupid”
BO- McWalkingstick, no substancial difference.
John Iselin 08.14.08 at 2:45 pm
I think he is secretly an agent of the HJ Heinz company