Patriotic Barack Obama lapel pins unveiled honoring all 57 states

Yesterday The Ticket broke the stunning news of America's acquisition of seven, maybe eight, new states, according to future president Barack Obama.

He was speaking at the start of a two-day swoop through Oregon, which is already a state.

In Beaverton, which is not a state yet, the Democrat let it slip that during this marathon 16-month party presidential nomination struggle against a bunch of dropouts and this female political zombie from New York who won't surrender short of a silver stake, he had already visited 57 states with one more to go.

That's not counting the existing states of Alaska and Hawaii, he said, which his staff decided aren't important enough to visit. Unless maybe you're Mike Gravel or Dennis Kucinich, who weren't very important either, come to think of it.

Here's the spoof-proof Obama video as evidence:

Has this aging freshman senator -- he'll be almost 60 in 13 years -- lost his bearings? Are the eight new states caucus or primary? And will Howard Dean bar them from the convention too?

Obama's gaffe caused a noticeable stir online during the day and even the respected Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic anticipated that the political media would kindly write the Democrat's mis-statement off to fatigue. But he wrote if, say, the Republican nominee-to-be had uttered the same silly fatigue flub, it would surely be added to eager suspicions of senility.

Besides trying to noodle out what the new states are, some clever campaign folks over at the phenomenal Suitably Flip blog got to thinking right away.

And they've now unveiled a new patriotic lapel pin that anyone can wear with pride even, say, a Harvard-educated senator from Illinois who's been trying to make a point about opposing a war before it even started.

Here is the new pin replete with all 57 stars:

You'll probably want to order several for friends and family. And any Chablis-sipping senators you might know.

--Andrew Malcolm

Comments

[cr]

"He has held no real job that he has ever been held accountable for results"

Well, he taught law at the University of Chicago for 11 years, while also working as an attorney, and was elected and twice re-elected to the Illinois Senate.

[SillyAlias]

Oh, that's right Robert. People who support Obama do so out of ignorance. That's why his figures look so fantastic among people with college degrees.

What a silly non issue. People are really grasping at straws.

[fromnj]

Robert - please check your facts. He wrote both his books himself. The people who used ghostwriters are the other 2 in this race (Clinton and McCain)

Funny article about a genuine slip - this election has been so full of ridiculousness that I won't be surprised if the "serious" media start running it and have their "expert" talking heads jabbering away on how this raises serious doubts about Obama.

Obama is the best candidate I've seen in a long time - we are lucky to have someone who is brilliant, even-tempered, a skilled politician and charismatic, all at the same time.

[Dave Miner]

Thank you for exposing this "important" story. You have shown the importance of your column and your career, if this is what you use your writing space for. Boy that Obama is so stoopid. Haw, haw, haw... I'm a gonna vote fer McBush, Haw, haw, haw. He's one of us, haw, haw, haw. Bomb Iran, haw, haw, stay in Iraq forever.........

[Tom deSabla]

Wow, gotta love that President Obama.

That's the kinda "change" we need - 7 new states!

He's sure got the intellect and the ideas to lead this country forward.

Better him than that Ron Paul fellow, you know, the one we only talk about in blogs?

How is he different than Obama again?

[Baby Boomer]

Mr Malcom, being sarcastic to Mia or trying to divert/belittle her comments is not the way you should go. Of course, we are concerned about what is posted here because it carries subliminal messages that try to influence people's mind. Probably the honest thing to do is to state which particular candidate you support just after you sign the article. In that way you declare your interests and people will be aware of your intentions and will understand your character. I am an ex-Republican baby boomer close to retirement and although we had leaders in the past I think that we will hardly have another opportunity to see an emerging leader as Sen. Obama. I decided not to be defined again as R or D but as an American. Sen. Obama is a third-milennium leader and if it is quite obvious for you, no past or current leader will compare to him. For those who are asking for credentials or what are his plans for change, it's easy: start changing yourselves, think globally and stop thinking as if we were still in the past. Finally, Mr Malcolm this is not funny! Perhaps the outcome of this political process will not affect you but for us who are facing gas prices, shrinking buying power and predatory health costs, it is damn serious!!

[Antonio]

John McCain has proven himself in the halls of congress and the US senate; in the skies over North Vietnam and in the prison camps of Hanoi.

Barak Obama has proven himself ________(fill in the blank).

[Cecile]

Fun. Too bad some people are so passionate they miss the joking tone of the article !

Go Obama, president of 57 states or more !

[Gaias Child]

Hilarious !!! Obama is lovable and inspirational enough to live through a few mistakes, as are we all. At least he wasn't inventing sniper fire to make himself look heroic.

[AMIGO]

“We need to elect someone who understands how Washington works and is ready from Day 1.”
You are absolutely right Hillary; YOU have been at 'center stage' for the past 16 years and N-O-T-H-I-N-G HAS CHANGED !!
May be IT IS time to move on - - -

[Keith]

It looks like he was joking. Some people have no sense of humor.

[JKT]

"Chablis-sipping"? What do YOU drink? Seriously, what's the deal with associating wine with liberalism? Where did this come from? I be the Mondavi and Gallo families vote GOP, and there certainly are a whole lot of beer drinkers who vote Democratic. Comments like that make you look foolish, not the people you're trying to lampoon.

[Robert Lilly]

@ darter "Clearly he meant 47 states, with 1 to go (48) and not Alaska and Hawaii (49 and 50). Come on folks, he just 'misspoke'. There's always Ron Paul.

exact on point, nothing more nothing less. Some folks are seeming with bias and will grasp at any little thing.

@Harrette obvioussly cannot deal with the fact that a black man will be president. Its sad to see people like you. For God Sake, Ayers did what he did when Obama was 8. I would be more concerned about the true hatered coming from Pastors endorsing Mccain. To srat turning the way Black Churches prey, partly to let of steam against the fustration they have to deal with, is wrong.

I would be more concerned about statements McCain makes which can end up being a lot more signigicant damaging National Secutiry:
http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/mccain-a-remake-of-clueless.html

[John Doe]

There are 57 states if you count Puerto Rico, Gitmo, Colombia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Taiwan and Israel.

[Steve]

After the dirty campaign he has been running, criticizing everyone else, saying every little comment was racist or they've lost there bearings. Claiming he doesn't take money from oil or lobbyist when his had is in the same pot of money as everyone else's. How does he like it now, it appears he's not as perfect as he thinks he is.
Obama has enough dirt on him that I wouldn't trust him with a boy scout troop let alone the country. Take the blinders off America you've been had.

[Norm]

I'am with Robert. We are voting for the Presidency of the United States not some local village trustee.

[Tommy]

This reporter has nothing to report but some mis-spoken worlds by Obama. This reporter is so biased and has no professional ethics.

[Lucas]

And the writer of this article is the current problem with politics. What a waste of time.

[Norm]

I'am with Robert. We are voting for the Presidency of the United States not some local village trustee.

[Media Bias]

There is absolutely no doubt that the media would be dumping on John McCain if he had said this. No doubt whatsoever. The media is completely biased and unfair.

[Mary]

Malcoln, Malcom, Malcom

You had to have reached pretty deep for this!
I fear however it suffers from one flaw, ITS STUPID!

Oh but you thought it was dry and witty, Did you not?

Take a geritol and get some sleep

[BN]

Oooohhh .. Yeah OBVIOUSLY Barack thinks there's 57 states! How can the US elect a president who misspoke? You guys are going to misunderestimate him.

As an outsider, I am SHOCKED at the attention that Americans give to Rev. Wright and other "friends" that Obama has had that have either done or said wrong or even incendiary things. GET OVER IT. Focusing on such petty issues is what got you guys in the situation you're in now - a war with no purpose, an economy in the tank and no moral authority in foreign affairs. Obama can at least mend these issues better than any other candidate. Does that matter to Americans? No. They're more concerned about superficial immaterial aspects like whether a candidate wears an American flag on his lapel or that he clearly mistakenly said '57 states' instead of '47 states'.

For the sake of the world and a prosperous America, I beg the American media and people to get over the petty politics that the Republicans have used so successfully since Swift Boat Veterans to cripple the American psyche, allowing their party leaders to mislead their population for their own misguided and even criminal personal gains (either economically or ideologically). You allowed the Republicans to portray John Kerry, recipient of a PURPLE HEART, as "unpatriotic" - even though Bush and Cheney didn't serve a single day in Vietnam and did all they could to dodge it. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?

DON'T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN.

[Elbram]

You guys should get a grip on life and move on…

The guy was joking…

He was born in the USA, He graduate from Harvard; he was in charge of Harvard law review; he was a constitutional Lawyer; he was teaching law in the university; he was a state senator for about 7 years; he has been in the US senate for about 3 years…..

Do you guys really thing a guy with such a history does not know the number of states that are in the US.

This is the basis for that joke…

There are 50 states in the US….

Six US territories.

1. Puerto Rico
2. Virgin Islands
3. American Samoa
4. Guam
5. Northern Mariana Islands
6. Minor Outlying Islands (Wake Island and Johnston Island)

And one US-Administered region:

1. Guantanamo Bay

If you do the maths, the US president is in charge of these 57 states, territories, regions

[Clintonians are traitors]

Schizophrenic Clintonians: you are traitors! You are financed by Al-Qaeda, and we are hunting you down OUT OF OUR COMMUNITY! Because we are REAL AMERICANS and we hate your drug-dealer LATINO people! Down with Hillary Escobar!
Regarding what banana-bama said it is called IRONY, but he usually outsmarts all you pathetic losers, and all the pathetic press (usually one becomes a journalist when he is not smart enough to get a job on a cafeteria, for example...). Anyways, if banana-bama can't crush you, WE will crush you! Big Mac and Rice will destroy you and better for you, Clintonians, to find a place in Mexico or Canada, because our witch-hunt will make Zimbabwe look like a kindergarten party...

[AgentX]

Well, technically he's right.
He're the list of unofficial US states after the 50th.
51: Canada
52: Puerto Rico
53: Guam and the Pacific Islands
54. Iraq
55. Denial
56. Apathy
57. Warmongering.