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

Rudy's Busy Signal

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Rudy Giuliani
Sept. 21, 2007

"Quite honestly, since Sept. 11, most of the time when we get on a plane, we talk to each other and just reaffirm the fact that we love each other."

—Giuliani, explaining why he interrupted a speech to the NRA to answer a cellphone call from his wife, Judith.


— M.J. Stephey


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