Sunday, May 11, 2008

Obama: Big Plans for Federal Republic

Looks like DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, the UP of Michigan, the Florida Keys, and maybe southern Ontario have some big changes ahead in an Obama administration:



Actually, there must be some more, since the Senator isn't counting Alaska and Hawaii. So maybe New York City and Chicago will be divided from Upstate New York and Downstate Illinois respectively. What else is in the offing? Mexico?

We're gonna need a bigger flag.

8 comments:

Unknown said...

So the grand total in Obama's book would be, what, 59 states? Boy, his credentials as a patriot continue to soar.

Christian said...

I thought it was a pretty good joke. Now if Bush had said that, I would have thought he was serious.

Anonymous said...

Christian, you see that your Bush remark is exactly the problem. The media decided that Bush is stupid, so his misstatements count against him. Obama, or any Democrat, can say anything and it's a joke.

That's the joke: the media's double standard.

Unknown said...

I'm for it. Split California into North and South, start annexing Canada, and get to work state-izing Guam and Puerto Rico.

We _do_ need a bigger flag.

Christian said...

Jim, It really didn't sound like a mispeak (if it was, then I'll be happy to laugh at him like I laugh at Bush, instead of with him). The problem is not the media making Bush look stupid, the problem is Bush making Bush look stupid. He's said some spectacularly disastrous and ignorant things. I'm not a liberal Bush attacker, but I also don't tie myself down to defending every action of every Republican because I'm conservative.

Anonymous said...

If it was an intentional joke, it was not quite as lame as Kerry's joke about dropouts going to Iraq, but it was close.

Christian said...

Kerry's joke was insensitive and rude. If this were an intentional joke, it appears to me that he was making commentary on the overload of traveling that he as a candidate has made. How is that even close to Kerry?

Christian said...

I listened again and can clearly see how it was a mistake and he said 57 instead of 47. However, I still stand by all my other comments. Again, not that I dislike Bush (or like the media, for that matter) but as Bush said "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."

Bryan, your count is off by one, he said 57, plus one more to go (58) not counting Hawaii and Alaska=60.