The transcript:
Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.
Yes, typical Obama supporters applauded and cheered him for announcing his ignorance and then using it as an exercise in self-congratulations.
Imagine if it had been the Republican presidential candidate patting himself on the back for not knowing Hanford from, uhhhh, Sioux City. Or Sioux Falls. Or somewhere in some of those states in the middle. Whatever.
