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Is Obama Familiar With The ... United States?

We know that Obama lived as a boy in Hawaii and Indonesia, attained his education in New York City and Cambridge, and selected Chicago to launch his political career, but the evidence mounts that his familiarity with the layout of the United States leaves something to be desired.

The blogs, but for some reason not the mainstream press, had a field day lately with his curious announcement in Oregon that

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....

Sounds like he traveled to some corners as yet undiscovered by others (and I write from the home town of Meriwether Lewis, who I think would have discovered them if they were there).

Now the Senator from Hawaii?Indonesia?New York?Cambridge?Chicago has committed another grand geographical gaffe (HatTip to Mickey Kaus). After blaming Fox News and emailed rumors for his impending loss in Kentucky, Obama went on to explain that

What it says is that I?m not very well known in that part of the country.... Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it?s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.

Hmm. So, Arkansas (from which Hillary has been gone for over 15 years) is closer to Kentucky than Illinois is? Too bad all those dupes of Fox News have the misfortune to live in ?some of those states in the middle? and thus have been been deprived of one of the great benefits of living on one our two coasts (I doubt that Obama counts the Gulf Coast as a coast): the ability to know Obama.

Full post as published by Discriminations on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).