The Schrug

Continuing my series on the corruption of an otherwise intelligent mind by radical anti-Obama propaganda ….

A couple more web sites that my friend referred me to as evidence of why Obama should not be President:

• “There are 57 Islamic States ….”

This shows a 24-second clip of an address made by Obama at some unknown place and time, presumably during the primary campaign. He says, in part:

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.

What to make of this comment? There are two explanations. One is that he simply meant to say forty-seven states but that his brain had been so accustomed to saying “fifty states” by that time that he goofed. Or you could conclude, as the blog poster does, that when Obama thinks about states what he’s really thinking about is the Organization of Islamic Conference Member States, of which there seem to be fifty-seven.

Look, making fun of verbal slip-ups (like McCain’s confusion of Sunnis and Shiites) is par for the course. Both sides find a lot of amusement here. But I really have to question the rationality of anyone who seriously thinks that the “57″ comment was a window into Barack Obama’s radical Islamic soul. How can anyone I know think this way?

• “Presidential Candidate Breaks Federal Law”

The law supposedly broken here is one against altering the Seal of the President of the United States. The blogger claims Obama broke law when his campaign created a decoration for his podium that resembled the Presidential Seal. Now you may or may not agree that the Obama seal was good for the campaign. The campaign wasn’t sure, either, and it dropped the logo a few days after its introduction. But to claim with a straight face that this was a violation of federal law and a good reason not to vote for the guy? Please tell me that the real reason you’re anti-Obama is that you make more than $250,000 a year and you don’t want your taxes to go up. I can handle self-interest among my friends, but not lunacy.