Obama has visited ... 57 STATES?!!!

Conservative bloggers are playing this video up under the tag line – “Do you want a guy who thinks there are more than 50 states to be president?” I think this is wide of the mark. For me, the point is that Palin has been skewered in the media for what liberals regard as a frightful answer to the Bush Doctrine, but Obama says he's been to 57 states and gets a pass from the media (except Fox News). See my September 14, 2008 post for an analysis of why Sarah Palin's understanding of the Bush Doctrine was more sophisticated than Charlie Gibson's understanding.