UPDATE: In honor of this flub, the Suitably Flip website is actually selling flag pins with 57 stars. As they say, it’s the perfect accessory for the ironic Obama supporter, and a wonderful “substitute for true patriotism”!
And Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic points out that if McCain had made the same flub, it would surely be pointed to as evidence of senility.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/new-patriotic-o.html
