Knowledge of U.S. geography not required to be president

You may insert your "57 states" joke here, as Instapundit says, but Barry really, truly is not real up on U.S. geography. Unlike the 57-states comment, Barry can't cop a "tired" plea due to the rough campaign schedule: this is part of his scripted spiel:

LENO:  You mentioned infrastructure.  Why is that a partisan issue?  I live in a town, the bridge is falling apart, it’s not safe.  How does that become Republican or Democrat?  How do you not just fix the bridge?  (Laughter and applause.)

THE PRESIDENT:  I don’t know.  As you know, for the last three years, I’ve said, let’s work together.  Let’s find a financing mechanism and let’s go ahead and fix our bridges, fix our roads, sewer systems, our ports.  [You know], the Panama [Canal] is being widened so that these big supertankers can come in.  Now, that will be finished in 2015.  If we don’t deepen our ports all along the Gulf — places like Charleston, South Carolina, or Savannah, Georgia, or Jacksonville, Florida — if we don’t do that, those ships are going to go someplace else.  And we’ll lose jobs.  Businesses won’t locate here.

Problem? None of the ports mentioned is on the Gulf of Mexico. They all are Atlantic seaboard ports.

Barry being a moron aside, ports are privately funded for the most part. The ports authority that coordinates activity and licenses berths, pierage, etc., often is a public entity, but shipping companies fund port facilities, as they should. If there is money to be made by dredging or whatever, it will happen. Why can't Barry grasp this simple concept? And how does he not know where Charleston is?