The Screwups of Campaign '08

Presidential campaigns are so carefully stage-managed that few things are as entertaining as the mistakes politicians make on the trail. Throughout the 2008 race, check out TIME.com's ongoing chronicle of each candidate's gaffes, and then vote on just how big a screwup each one is

Mistakes Were Made

Edwards' Separate Peace

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John Edwards
January 19, 2007

"Perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace was the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities."

—Variety's Peter Bart, summarizing comments Edwards made at a Hollywood fundraiser. The Edwards campaign says Bart's article is erroneous, and that Edwards said one of the greatest short-term threats to world peace is Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon.


— Christine Lim


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