Barack Obama is exhausted. He's been campaigning his little heart out for something like 150 years now, in a bitter fight against a gorgon and a Calydonian Boar. So naturally he's going to occasionally say some things that make absolutely no sense, like announcing that he's campaigned in "57 states." He has one or two left to go. But his campaign won't let him go to Alaska or Hawaii, our 58th and 72nd states. [via BuzzFeed]

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