My guess was 50 states, and 7 major territories or possession? (Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, etc)
But no, according to the Obama folk, they say he started to say 50, but realized it was wrong mid sentence and tried to adjust to 47 (48 contiguous states, minus the one he hadn't visited yet, plus the two non-contiguous he mentions later in the sentence.) What he said "... it is just wonderful to be back in Oregon, and over the last 15 months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in fifty .... seven states? I think one left to go. 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." So, it was either a slip of the tongue, or he really doesn't know how many states there are in the US. I know which one I would bet on. (Heck, I would bet even George W Bush knows the number of states) On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > 57? > > > -----Original message----- > From: Sam [email protected] > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:44:33 -0500 > To: cf-community [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is Obama really President? > > > He's the 44th person to take the oath for the 57 states. > > He's president. > > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I knew that someone would start bitching about Obama not really being > > > President because Roberts screwed up the oath. I should have known it > > > would be Fox News. > > > > > > > http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/01/fox-news-chris.html > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:286007 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
