Obama White House fails 3rd grade U.S. geography

In the clearest display of the Obama White House's negative disposition toward so-called "flyover country" yet, the White House press office distributed badges advertising the president's trip this week to Washington, California and Colorado by highlighting Washington, California and... Wyoming.

Whoops:

CNN's White House blog noted the error, but still managed to simultaneously excuse it:

Looks like someone in the White House press office needs to brush up on his or her U.S. geography.

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To be fair, both states are rectangular, nearly identical in size, and stacked next to each other. But we doubt our third grade teachers would buy that!