Obama's most "telling" gaffe

Exactly. Like you said," 50 states" is so embedded in the mind that the brain would have to be doing something really bizarre to make such a mistake. In fact, when you think about it, such an absurd disconnect like that might signal something much more serious if drugs weren't involved.

10-20-2008 5:42 AM

merrie

The statement Obama made regarding 57 states was completely accurate if put in the context of the international organization ~ Organization of the Islamic Conference.
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The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is an international organisation with a permanent delegation to the United Nations. It groups 57 member states, from the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Caucasus, Balkans, Southeast Asia, South Asia and South America.

wikipedia

That's what I usually think of while engaging in a discussion about U.S. politics.

10-20-2008 3:14 PM

ALERT: None of what is posted above is true.

10-20-2008 6:22 PM

non-citizen.....Just because you say so? LOL

10-20-2008 6:32 PM

There were 57 contests in the primary season, Sherlock Holmes.

10-20-2008 6:54 PM

OH, That must be it...he just confused "states" with "contests".....but the "57" was ok. (chuckle) You're such a little spinmeister dulios.

10-20-2008 8:47 PM

willhelm

There are 57 ingredients in Heinz 57. Maybe he confused states with Heinz 57. Maybe he had just eaten a big juicy hamburger with Heinz 57.

10-21-2008 2:04 AM

spinmeister

Spin? Don't you think that

he just confused "states" with "contests"

is a hell of a lot more likely than understanding his gaffe

in the context of the international organization ~ Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Just asking.

10-21-2008 3:20 AM

Ok, now you're just taking advantage of my sense of fair play. Dammit! Yes, states and contests could be put in the same catagory. Are you happy now? My guess is he smoked one with Bill Ayers in the back of his well ventilated Limo, went back inside, had the munchies (of course) and got that cheeseburger with Heinz 57 sause on it.

10-21-2008 11:17 AM

Chestnuts QUOTE:
'My guess is he [Obama] smoked one with Bill Ayers in the back of his well ventilated Limo, went back inside, had the munchies (of course) and got that cheeseburger with Heinz 57 sause on it.
ENDQUOTE

It's interesting to see the lack-of-quality, reality, consistency and development of such political thoughts.

It makes one wonder what you've been smokin', chestnuts, or what pills you are popping, coke snorting, or booze sending you into these deliriums.

Thanks for the entertainment.

It's nice to see you and others here spin their wheels on such stupidity as all the metrics of political victory keep growing in Obama's direction.

Although the election now looks to be the b...

10-21-2008 1:18 PM

Good God Man, IT WAS A JOKE ! ! What are you so upset for anyway. You'll probably get the Marxist Socialist Commie government you want. I'm the one that has something to lose, evidently your damn life is so pitifully empty, you have nothing to lose and you care nothing about anyone anyway. You just have your own selfish desires. That's what Commies are, selfish greedy little bastards that blame everyone but themselves for the emptyness inside of them. You worthless little piece of crap, you've made nothing of your life and now you want mine? You can go to Hell, because if you want it, Your going to have to work a lot harder than just going to cast a vote... a lot, lot harder.

10-22-2008 6:26 PM

And you're not only able to make up all these fabrications, fantasies and fears in your head --- but then able to respond to them?

Pretty impressive.

10-22-2008 6:47 PM

Chestnut, I remarked on another clip of yours that I have family who were communist partisans fighting the Nazis in Greece. You're throwing the term around loosely and without historical context.

You don't have to like Obama. You don't have to vote for Obama. But have some intellectual honesty about why you oppose him without resorting to (historically-inaccurate) name-calling.

10-22-2008 7:40 PM

dulios, I would tell you not to take it personally but since it......you know, since you keep bringing it up...Are you a member of the Communist Party?

10-22-2008 10:57 PM

Are you a member of the Communist Party?

Would it matter if I was?

My point is that you use the terms "communist", "socialist" and "Marxist" with little understanding of these terms, how each are different, and how each have expressed themselves throughout history and across the world.

10-23-2008 12:27 AM

I guess it doesn't matter if you're a Communist, after all, it's not like you can shot me in the back of the head here.
The beauty of living in a Democracy is that I don't have to have your understanding or your permission about how I use certain words.
I don't particularly care about the exact meaning of those words. What matters to me is that none of them are a Democracy. This country is constitutionally a Democracy. Thats the Status Quo. You or anyone else that wants to challenge that will have a fight on their hands.

10-23-2008 12:45 AM

Understanding words you insist on using might be helpful. Socialism, for example is an economic system, not a governing system, and as such the two are not mutually exclusive (see: Europe and Canada).

10-23-2008 1:00 AM

as such the two are not mutually exclusive

Clarification- the "two" refers to democracy and socialism.

10-23-2008 2:07 AM

I hear you dulios, I hear you loud and clear.

10-23-2008 1:19 PM

@chestnuts, quote: "I don't particularly care about the exact meaning of... words."

You said it.

Loud & clear.

Coming through.

10-4.

Rodger.

Message received.

Over.

10-23-2008 2:05 PM