He doesn't seem to have been informed that Czechoslovkia is no longer a country. Poor man. Oh, I hope he wins. What fun that would be.

It's the White House or the Nursing House for him.

Obama visited 57 states.

Hahahaha, did he SAY that? OMG, where?


I think I'm only a slightly bigger Dem Obama fan than scaeagles is a Pub McCain fan.

He did say it....He was at a campaign stop in Oregon.

Holy Cow...Google Obama and "57 states" and you'll find video links, quotes, even campaign buttons saying Obama wants to be President of all 57 states.

And you're right, ISM.....McCain is going to be very, very hard for me to vote for.

He has big plans for this country. What do you suppose the new states will be Iraq? Iran? Maybe something local like Canada?

We need new stars on our flag - we've had this one for decades

With McCain the Iraq-Pakistan border thing doesn't really bother me. Nor does the 57 states thing. I don't really think that McCain believed there is such a border or that he wasn't aware of the splitting of Czechoslovakia than I think Obama isn't aware of how many states we have.

When you speak in public for several hours a day all kinds of stupid things are going to fall out of your mouth.

I'm a little more put out by McCain's misstatement of timelines around the surge simply because he was using the correctness of the misstatement (if that is what it was) as a building block of a case.

Visible mojo for Alex. I made nearly the very same statement to my sis today; as Alex said, it's got to be hard to be under that sort of microscope for that long without screwing up along the way. I couldn't do it- that's for sure.

Point well taken. Although it does raise a question in my mind as to whether McCain's frequent slips are a result of the normal stress of the campaign trail, or if age is also a factor. I'm not trying to accuse him of anything but it seems a valid concern.

I'm also finding it interesting that on three occasions this week, McCain's staff has had to jump in and make a statement saying that something McCain just said somewhere doesn't reflect his actual views. I often wonder if he has any idea what his actual positions are, for he often seems very confused. When asked about contraception, for example, he literally had no idea where he stood.

Oh, I hadn't heard about this.

Good thing there's an entry at Snopes about it!

Thanks, Tenigma, for the Snopes link.