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Okay, revisiting yesterday’s Obama reaches out to his core electorate…

Instapundit:

Reader Matthew Conlan notices something:

Within the link you provided on a McCain-Obama Trip to Iraq, there seemed to be an explanation for Obama’s “I See Dead People” comments yesterday. Perhaps he and his campaign honestly don’t know the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day. The quote from the article:

Obama spokesman Bill Burton replied: “Senator Obama thinks Memorial Day is a day to honor our nation’s veterans, not a day for political posturing.”

Shouldn’t this Elementary School-knowledge be a pre-requisite for the position of Commander In Chief?

Yes. And:

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Barack Obama on Memorial Day:

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.

I know…it’s nothing, and no one likes gotcha politics. But alert me if the comedy shows start doing a weekly installment of Obama gaffes (which are more substantive than anything Bush has ever mis-said) as they do for Bush.

And the subject of my snide little joke about Chicago/Democratic politics turned out to be so much more!

No but seriously, Bush is an “idiot” because he speaks with a Texan accent and sometimes gets stuttery on the stump, so he had to be asked on a live televised debate with the world’s klieg lights watching who the leader of Chechnya is. Obama has revealed that he thinks Memorial Day is Veteran’s Day, there’s 57 states, he’s four years younger than he really is, Sunrise is Sunshine, Iowa is South Dakota, and peoples of Central Asia speak Arabic. If any of these things were Bush, the media and everybody else would be all, “Hah! What a moron!”

So wouldn’t it be nice if someone asked Obama, “How many states are there, Senator?” or “What do we celebrate on Veterans Day?” or “What was the original purpose of Memorial Day?” or “Why isn’t Memorial Day celebrated on Veterans Day?” or “What year was the Constitution signed?” or “Who is the Head of State in Britain?” or “What is Pervez Musharraf’s political party?” or “Who is the leader of Chechnya?” or, for a really hard one, “Do you think Iran is or isn’t a grave threat?”

Update:

Evidently he also thinks the Americans liberated Auschwitz, and therefore that Poland was a free and democratic US protectorate during the Cold War. Or maybe he hasn’t heard of the Cold War.

See, there’s some question over whether it’s just a silly mistake and whether that matters, but if you’re making silly mistakes over something as elemental as who got to Poland first, then you just don’t know really elemental things.

* And what that meant for Poland, a kind of a big country and the source of an awful lot of Chicagoans, for the ensuing fifty years.