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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Is it 10 or 10,000?

Don't you just hate numbers? Those pesky little things have a habit of making someone look really stupid.

This time the accursed digits landed into the speech of Presidential hopeful Barack Obama. He was making reference to the horrible Greensburg tornado where, at last count 12 people lost their lives. Instead of saying 10 (politicians like to round numbers) he spat out that 10,000 people had lost their lives.

Now the big O said it was hot, he was tired, and Godzilla was in the back row making funny faces at him which led to the slip-o-the-tongue.

Well Barack, as President getting your numbers right the first time is important. Will he as President misstate the US budget by over 1000x? Will he address 100,000 sitting US Senators? Will he protect all 50,000 states?

Perhaps a game of Sudoku between stops will sharpen his number skills up.

3 comments:

Ray said...

Indeed. As president, getting the numbers right the first time is important. Otherwise, a president could make the embarrassing suggestion that a visiting monarch had travelled to America over 200 years ago.

Chris C said...

Welcome back Ray. I haven't figured out if that was a joke or another Bushism. Here is question. If you had to tell the Queen of England a joke what would it be?

Ray said...

I'm not so good at quips, so I would probably pass under those circumstances. Intended jokes when one is honoring a visiting dignitary can fall flat, after all.

I really don't think that Bush was joking, though. His slip seemed entirely unintentional, but I'm not sure what to make of the wink.

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