Things that make you go "hmmm"
From James Taranto's "WSJ - Best of the Web eamil:
How many states are there? Barack Obama seems not to know, as the Los Angeles Times reporeted last week:Now image if George Bush, or heaven forbid, Dan Quayle had said something like this. Would we ever hear the end of it?"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "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. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
The Times' conscientious Robin Abcarian thought she heard something different there. She checked her tape recorder. It had captured what he had actually said—57 states now. A new Louisiana Purchase that's gone unannounced so far?
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