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

Hillary's Hollywood Shuffle

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Hillary Clinton
Feb. 21, 2007

"How can Senator Obama denounce the politics of slash and burn yesterday while his own campaign is espousing the politics of trash today?"

—The Clinton campaign, releasing a statement reprimanding Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for accepting money from producer and long-time Clinton supporter David Geffen after the Hollywood bigwig trashed the Clintons to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and moved his financial support over to Obama.

— Katie Rooney

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• Hillary Clinton: Take THAT, David Geffen!

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