Some months ago, Barack Obama was talking about “campaigning in all 57 states.” Of course, the press corps had no sharp ridicule for the blunder; the incident was barely reported and quickly abandoned. I think it’s worse than Dan Quayle’s error in spelling ‘potato’ which received endless hoots of laughter for weeks from the same press corps that doesn’t mind if a Democrat, especially this Democrat, makes a mistake.

This week, I think I have finally figured out where those other missing states are. At first, it didn’t make much sense to me to hold a campaign rally in Germany. But then, I couldn’t remember if Obama had won the Democrat primary election in Germany, or if he was trying to garner support in a previously contested district that had perhaps voted for Hillary. That’s when it finally sank in why Obama thinks there are 57 states in this country; he’s counting on the votes from his EU buddies to put him into the black (no, wait, can’t say that! That would be a racist thing to say.)

Then, there was a second item that I noticed about Barack’s European Campaign, and once again the press corps seems to have missed the connection. On the one hand, they happily reported the support numbers Obama is getting from the voters of Europe and that would be fine if I cared what Europeans thought of American politics. The second number that they have been loathe to report is that, in almost precisely the same proportions, these same European voters have said that they felt America was too strong and, for the common good of everyone on the planet, the U.S. should be caused to be rendered weaker. It is with this thought still on their lips that they express their support and devotion to Barack Obama for President.

I see no reason to add anything more to their message.