ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Who Is Dumber, Joe Biden or Barack Obama? “Maybe such blunders are insignificant. Then again, maybe they aren’t. If you can’t count to four, or keep track of the difference between 50 and 57 states, maybe that helps to explain why you don’t understand the significance of a $16 trillion debt. In a world where numbers are all just a fog, what’s the difference?”