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

[Ralph crandon]

Everyone knows there are onlt 56 states! Jeessee!

[R. Ford Mashburn]

Dr. Ray,
AQ is being supported by Iran, your argument is baseless.
Iran supports Hizbollah, also a SUNNI organization.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6581-2004Jun25.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,87778,00.html
You ought to do some reading before spouting the thinkprogress party line.

[dlane]

In the meantime, Hillary's camp is hard at work trying to seat delegates from those extra 7 states. It's not over yet! No, really...

[Don meaker]

Lets stay in Iraq for a hundred years. We have been in Cuba for about 110 years. We have been in Germay since 1944, in Japan since 1945, in Korea since 1949.

Why is there such a drive to pull out of Iraq?

Answer: It is the only way to salvage a defeat, just as it was the only way to salvage a defeat in Vietnam after the South Vietnamese Communists were dead, and the North Vietnamese Communists were defeated.

[Josh N.]

All of us with IQ in the triple digits knew that Obama meant that he had visited some states more than once.

I wish people without college degrees would just stay their asses home on election day. Why must you all run this country down with your hiding behind your Bible and you bitter - YES BITTER - attitudes.

[Dave]

It is amazing to me that people who were more than happy to scream about every time Bush "misspoke" are so thin-skinned about their own guy's errors. Lighten up, people, or in the unlikely event this fool does get elected you're going to give yourselves strokes.

[Baby Queen]

Umm - where can I buy one of those pins??

[Don Meaker]

The difference between McCain and Obama: Obama would like to have conversations with Iran while they provide weapons and training to terrorists who bomb US soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen, and our allies in Iraq. McCain understands that discussions can actually make progress only when the terrorists and their allies are first soundly defeated.

[Christopher Wilde]

That is die hard hilarious. I'm ok with bringing a few more states into the union.
www.futureosophy.com

[Feb]

Has it really been so long since public political figures were able to crack jokes? Why does everything have to be a pre-scripted, result-oriented talking point? Can't a guy say "wow, this campaign has been grueling" by being witty instead of literal?

Just watch the video, and for a moment try to remember that Obama's an intelligent guy who hasn't been a politician his entire life. The way he stretches out the syllables, and inserts a "wait for it..." -style pause before the word "seven" makes it clear that he's making a joke about just how many stops the campaign has made, and how long the process is.

Give him some credit -- he's clearly giving his audience credit for knowing there are 50 states. The idea of there being 57 states IS THE JOKE. Okay, it's not the very sharpest comedy ever, but it's nice to see a politician assume his audience is astute enough to catch on that he's making a joke. Jeez, Internet, lighten up.

[TheXception]

Hey! How can I buy some of those Flag Pins??

Obama for The NEW 57 United States of America!!

[bonehead]

Obama forgot to include Zimbabwe

[LonghornMama]

Wow! Ivy League not quite what it used to be??? Unbelievable. Should prove who has the brains in the Dem primary race. He's pretty and he'll be great for the ambassador work abroad, but we need Hillary on solutions. I love this comment, because it slaps the media who have caused such a huge rift in this country by reporting "educated, affluent" people vote for him. "Poor, uneducated" people vote for her. Let's stop slicing and dicing people and call it one America. And how lucky are we that such great, courageous people step up to serve. Hillary '08

[Wm]

Mr. Malcom,

In your news story you report that he said "he had already visited 57 states with one more to go," and that makes 58 states, not 57.

So why does the lapel pin have only 57?

And why is the headline "Patriotic Barack Obama lapel pins unveiled honoring all 57 states?" All 57? What about the last one, number 58?

Are you against the 58th state joining the union?

This report shows that Canada, Mexico, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Virgin Islands, Kenya, Iraq, and Washington DC (no. 58) are going to become states during Obama's presidency. So you don't want Washington DC to become a state, right. Neither do I.

Wm

[pat]

This is mean. The author of this article might try to do some real reporting, but I doubt if he, she, knows the meaning of the word.

[Anthony]

Who's gonna pitch in to buy McCain a 13-colony lapel pin to remind him of his youth?

[strategy]

Obama was reaching out to Hillary's less educated supporters.

[MyEyeIsOnYou]

much ado about nothing. Really this is quite silly

[Samuel Award]

Karl Rove. You turn a slip of a tongue (47 to 57) into a full essay, and a top active blog on line, with head lines celebrating it on right wing machine?

Is this what the GOP has become? a bunch of grumpy old drunks, pretending to be Nazi comedians on the air waves and on line?

Maybe, just maybe, if you; Mr. Karl Rove, would actually have Sen.McCain start fixing this slip of a tongue from Sen.Obama

How? Maybe if Sen.McCain would say he'll fix this slip of a tongue from Sen.Obama by making our stand in the world so good, that by the end of his presidency, we will have 7 more states join our state of the union.

What states? Maybe if Sen.McCain is convincing enough, he can convince the next states to join the state of the Union; Philippine, port Rico, Jamaica, Israel, Guam, Baja, and Baja Sur. After all, without US, they would incinerate in less than a week.

Thanks to you Karl Rove, we have members in the state of the union, that are almost refusing to participate in the state of the union activity, without huge financial bribes.

(Just curious, Samuel. Where did you see a Karl Rove connection in Obama's slip of the tongue?)

[lightnin]

Not actually "senility", this type is correctly referred to as "Premature-onset Alzheimers", tragic in one so young . This may very well account for his failure to account for what he heard about black racism and anti-Americanism when in the pews of "Rev." Wright's "church", halting explanations of his flaws, failing to recognize that people like Ayers who bomb government buildings in this country are bad, and his failure to understand that he has a "snowball's chance in hell" of being elected President! Sadly, in his case, there is no cure, his delusions will continue to worsen until he sinks from the public view, into the hell that awaits under the bus, with Gore the ignorant and Kerry (ecch!) the malignant. Such a tragedy!

Lightnin'

[BJ]

THIS is a perfect example of how Obamabots will discount anything negative to Obama, BUT would BLOG with such NEGATIVE VORACIOUS VERACITY IF this comment were attributed to HILLARY and especially to McCAIN!

[Becky]

My my the perfect ones followers can't take much.HILLARY 08 BET HILLARY KNOWS HOW MANY STATES THERE ARE. LOL

[X Rocket Scientist]

The pseudo intellectual Obama supporters that call Bush “stupid” are missing the point. Obama’s campaign is based upon catchy slogans without factual basis. However, when Obama tries to state a simple fact, we find "he is not smarter than a 5th grader"!
LMAO!

[C. Cannon]

This is easy, the first 50 are real states and the last 7 are various states of confusion!

[Mandelay]

Wow, the universe really is expanding! Maybe he's including Syria, Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Kenya, Cuba and Libya? Or he's suffering from early-onset senility? No matter, Ted Kennedy will be the shadow president anyway. He's in total control and pulling all this puppet's strings.