Well, he has actually made a lot of similar mistakes, you do know, according to our President we have 60 states?
"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."
Personally, I chalk it up to being human, of course, if it were President Bush we were talking about, he's not allowed to make mistakes, because he'd be called stupid.
Actually Glenn Beck did a segment on several mis-statements by Obama Friday, and also excused them. Glenn felt it's perfectly human to make the occaisional mistake as well. (That for all the Glenn Beck haters who think all he does is pick on the President.)
While I can excuse those kinds of comments as being a casual mistake, I do not excuse his outright lies, like when he calls himself a professor, when he was not, and the lies he has made about his healthcare plan, and the lies about the number of jobs "saved or created". And his lies about excluding lobbyists from his administration, and his lies about the health care debate being open and bi-partisan. And his many other lies.
Oh, how about his lies about protecting us from hate crimes, when his Justice Department is ignoring the clear hate crime in St. Louis when SEIU thugs beat up Ken Gladney, a black man while calling him the "N" word? I'm guessing it is only a hate crime if it is a Republican doing it? Gladney's lucky he is not charged with a hate crime for allowing them to call him a "N" word and being beaten.
http://www.ucdailynews.com/politics/17001536.htmlChris