{"id":11848,"date":"2010-02-09T16:02:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/09\/innumeracy-at-the-highest-levels\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T16:02:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:02:28","slug":"innumeracy-at-the-highest-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/09\/innumeracy-at-the-highest-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Innumeracy at the Highest Levels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Barack Obama <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws\"><font face=\"Georgia\">claims to have visited 57 U. S. states.<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">&#0160; He also claimed that he had one more to go and that he wasn&#39;t allowed by his staff to visit Hawaii or Alaska.&#0160; Does he really think there are 60 states?&#0160; Of course not.&#0160; Let&#39;s be charitable.&#0160; The man was very, very tired and he got confused.&#0160; He said &#39;57&#39; instead of &#39;47.&#39;&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">But here&#39;s the thing.&#0160; Had George Bush or Ronald Reagan or any conservative made this mistake, liberals would have seized upon it as proof&#0160;of stupidity.&#0160; This says something about liberals.&#0160; For a liberal, conservatives are stupid no matter how much intelligence they display, and liberals are the opposite no matter how much stupidity they manifest, for example, the stupidity of thinking that one can spend one&#39;s way out of debt.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">So who is really stupid?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama claims to have visited 57 U. S. states.&#0160; He also claimed that he had one more to go and that he wasn&#39;t allowed by his staff to visit Hawaii or Alaska.&#0160; Does he really think there are 60 states?&#0160; Of course not.&#0160; Let&#39;s be charitable.&#0160; The man was very, very tired and he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/09\/innumeracy-at-the-highest-levels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Innumeracy at the Highest Levels?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}