Barack Obama's geography problem

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MG1968

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In addition to being a socialist and an elitist, Obama apparently slept through geography.

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 05/16/2008 | Obama blames Fox News, e-mail for likely loss in Kentucky

Obama conceded that he has a steep challenge to get his message and background to voters in states such as Kentucky — where he trails Sen. Hillary Clinton by 27 points, according to a poll published earlier this week — and West Virginia, where voters chose Clinton over Obama by 40 points on Tuesday.

"What it says is that I'm not very well known in that part of the country," Obama said. "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle."
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Kentucky shares a border with Illinois, Barack.

Guess that Ivy League edumacation isn't all it's cracked up to be.
 
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Arkansas is "nearby" to Kentucky, in relative terms. In that quote you posted, he didn't say it bordered Kentucky. :ermm:
 
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BigPapaVol said:
so is the moon, in relative terms.
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Connecticut "nearby" to Vermont, but doesn't border it...

I think this is just a bit of an extreme, right here. Trying to read into something that isn't really there. And I'm not even a Obama supporter, but this just seems like a little bit of nit picking.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Arkansas is "nearby" to Kentucky, in relative terms. In that quote you posted, he didn't say it bordered Kentucky. :ermm:
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um, he uses Arkansas being nearby to Kentucky as an excuse for Clinton being more well known, yet Illinois is much closer to Kentucky :ermm:
 
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chavisut said:
um, he uses Arkansas being nearby to Kentucky as an excuse for Clinton being more well known, yet Illinois is much closer ot Kentucky :ermm:
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When he says "that part of the country", I'm assuming he's meaning The South and not The Midwest (Illinois). May have been awkwardly stated, but I actually have to give him a pass on the Arkansas statement. Now if he would have said that Kentucky "bordered" Arkansas, that would have been one thing, but he didn't.
 
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I heard he wiped his ass 4 times today instead of 3, maybe we should gather a lynch mob.


Some people are just REALLY digging for things that don't exist to try and make thier point, and it REALLY looks foolish.
 
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VolzRChamps said:
I heard he wiped his ass 4 times today instead of 3, maybe we should gather a lynch mob.


Some people are just REALLY digging for things that don't exist to try and make thier point, and it REALLY looks foolish.
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Im sorry, but isn't this guy running for the most important job in the world?
 
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volsforever27 said:
And some people are just Obama supporters.
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I'm no Obama "supporter", but I think it's stupid for people to make things up about people, especially when so many of thier actual policies could be attacked. Ofcourse, the person doing the attacking would have to have a knowledge and understanding of the subject matter then. Making things up is just so much easier huh? :no:
 
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VolzRChamps said:
I'm no Obama "supporter", but I think it's stupid for people to make things up about people, especially when so many of thier actual policies could be attacked. Ofcourse, the person doing the attacking would have to have a knowledge and understanding of the subject matter then. Making things up is just so much easier huh? :no:
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Blah, there's nitpicking on both sides. That's politics.
 
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volsforever27 said:
Blah, there's nitpicking on both sides. That's politics.
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That's one reason why I can't stand politics nowadays. You know, I know, and everyone knows what he meant by the statement. Again, I'm not even an Obama supporter, but this trivial stuff dealing with word parsing and picking up on verbal stumbles is just as annoying to me as when the liberal media did it with Bush.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
That's one reason why I can't stand politics nowadays. You know, I know, and everyone knows what he meant by the statement. Again, I'm not even an Obama supporter, but this trivial stuff dealing with word parsing and picking up on verbal stumbles is just as annoying to me as when the liberal media did it with Bush.
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Well Said.

Two wrong's don't make a right.

People should have enough respect for themselves and thier side to be better than all that.
 
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VolzRChamps said:
Well Said.

Two wrong's don't make a right.

People should have enough respect for themselves and thier side to be better than all that.
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Today's politics is nothing but mudslinging for the most part. We talk about being a united country, but we can't even have a government that is united in taking care of it's people. (I don't mean in a monetary way either.)
 
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VolzRChamps said:
I'm no Obama "supporter", but I think it's stupid for people to make things up about people, especially when so many of thier actual policies could be attacked. Ofcourse, the person doing the attacking would have to have a knowledge and understanding of the subject matter then. Making things up is just so much easier huh? :no:
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if you're referring to me, I know what Obama's policies are and I attack them on a regular basis. If your sense of humor were as well developed as your sense of moral outrage you might have been able to understand the tongue in cheek nature of the OP.
 
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would it make you feel better about the world if I PM a mod and ask him to delete this thread?
 
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Not at all. It's completely you're right to make things up about Obama.

I just don't have to like it.

Feel free to continue on.
 
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VolzRChamps said:
Not at all. It's completely you're right to make things up about Obama.

I just don't have to like it.

Feel free to continue on.
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how was I making something up? Obama said Hillary would do better than he in Kentucky because Kentucky is close to Arkansas. Kentucky actually shares a border with Illinois and while they are close, KY and AR do not have a common border.
 
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