Sarah Palin History Lesson on Paul Revere!!

kokonut said:
*shrugs*

Why worry? She's not running for president.

I'm more worried about the guy claiming we have 57 states.
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My guess is that he got the numbers mixed up and that he meant to say 47 states. Who knows? :dunno:
 
Here's what Snopes has to say about this.
57 States

Claim: During a campaign stop, Barack Obama said that he had visited "57 states," a reference to 57 Islamic states.


MIXTURE OF TRUE AND FALSE INFORMATION


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[Collected via e-mail, June 2008]

I guesss Obama was speaking the truth about the 57 states.

You are aware, probably, that Barack Obama lost his bearings recently and said that he was going to campaign in all 57 states. You heard this? And everybody chalked it up to, 'Well, he's tired.'

Barack Obama says he's gonna go out and campaign in 57 states, he was just tired, you know, it's been such a long campaign, he's been so many places, he probably thinks there are 57 states. Well, I have here a printout from a website called the International Humanist and Ethical Union. And here is how the second paragraph of an article on that website begins. 'Every year from 1999 to 2005 the organization of the Islamic conference representing the 57 Islamic states presented a resolution to the United Nations commission on human rights called combating.' And the title of the piece here is, 'How the Islamic states dominate the UN human rights council,' and there are 57 of them.

Obama said he's going to campaign in 57 states, and it turns out that there are 57 Islamic states. There are 57 Islamic states. So did Obama just lose his bearings, or was this a more telling slip, ladies and gentlemen?


[Collected via e-mail, May 2008]

When Obama said he campaigned in all 57 states, the immediate response to his error is that there are 57 Islamic states. Is that a correct number of Islamic countries?


[Collected via e-mail, May 2008]

Someone sent me this quote. Can you please verify? Thanks!

"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."


Origins: On the campaign trail in Beaverton, Oregon, in May 2008, an obviously tired Barack Obama mistakenly told a crowd that over the course of the long campaign he had been to fifty-seven states in the U.S., with one left to go:

"... it is just wonderful to be back in Oregon, and over the last 15 months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in fifty .... seven states? I think one left to go. 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."




Talking with reporters at a later campaign stop, Senator Obama expressed concern that he'd recently misstated both the number of potential victims of a recent cyclone in Burma and the number of states he'd visited, saying: "I hope I said 100 thousand people the first time instead of 100 million. I understand I said there were 57 states today. It's a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, uh ..."

Quickly

enough, based on the (spurious) rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim, someone came up with the fanciful idea that his mention of "fifty-seven states" was a reference to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which has 57 member states. (Actually, the OIC encompasses 60 countries altogether: 57 member states and 3 observer states.)

The actual intent behind Senator Obama's misstatement is easy to discern without the need to invoke an obscure international organization. He was trying to express the thought that in all the time he had spent on the campaign trail so far in 2007-08, he had visited all (48) of the states in the continental U.S. save for one (i.e., "one left to go," excluding Alaska and Hawaii), but in his weariness he slipped up and started off with "fifty" instead of "forty." (Note the long pause in the video clip between the words "fifty" and "seven.")

As for the next obvious question, depending upon the definitional criteria used, there are more or less than 57 Islamic countries/nations/states in the world. If an Islamic state is defined to mean any country in which a majority of the indigenous population is Muslim, then the total number of Islamic states is actually a little lower (about 52). All such numbers are estimates, however, and are subject to additional definitional criteria.

As for Barack Obama's "fifty-seven states" verbal slip-up, it wasn't long before some wags also spoofed a previous controversy over the senator's eschewing the wearing of a U.S. flag lapel pin by coming up with a revised version of that familiar adornment:




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Sources:
Malcolm, Andrews. "Barack Obama Wants to Be President of These 57 United States."
Los Angeles Times ['Top of the Ticket' Blog] . 9 May 2008.
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Guess Obama was tired.. I've made similar mistakes in another thread.
 
kokonut said:
*shrugs*

Why worry? She's not running for president.

I'm more worried about the guy claiming we have 57 states.
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Is someone worried? **jillio looking for raised hands** Nope, no one is worried in the least.

Keep in mind, the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who does nothing. Is that the reason behind your own personal perfection?
 
if she runs for the president, I predict the stock in popcorn will go up!
 
ok, we'll see. One thing for sure - our arch conservative will try to find all the dirt he can on Obama.
 
deafskeptic said:
ok, we'll see. One thing for sure - our arch conservative will try to find all the dirt he can on Obama.
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He is so very obsessed. I imagine he will need to spend some time in detox once Obama is no longer in office.
 
jillio said:
He is so very obsessed. I imagine he will need to spend some time in detox once Obama is no longer in office.
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:bowlol:
I'm not looking forward to another two year whining about Obama if he wins again. :P
 
That's how long it was the last time he won. :P Then he didn't post as much during last year and this year.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
WOW!! That is interesting! I guess Fox news want her to run for president and are trying to not let the public see how stupid she really is!! Does Fox news really think this will not be all over the place! I bet SNL and Jay Leno will have a blast with this!!
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Oh by goodness! ha ha ha! You bet! :cool2:
 
But he said "except for Alaska and Hawaii." So he was probably thinking of the 48 continental states, of which he had visited all except one. So - 47 states that he had been to on the campaign trail.
 
Beach girl said:
But he said "except for Alaska and Hawaii." So he was probably thinking of the 48 continental states, of which he had visited all except one. So - 47 states that he had been to on the campaign trail.
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Actually according to Snopes, he meant to say 47 not 57. Apparently he was exhausted. You can see the link to snopes in an earlier post of mine. I've made similar mistakes in another tread. Txgolfer caught my mistake.
 
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