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

Clinton's Kindergarten Kicker

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Courtesy Barack Obama

Barack Obama with his mother, 1964

Hillary Clinton
Dec. 2, 2007

"In kindergarten, Senator Obama wrote an essay titled 'I Want to Become President.'"

—Part of a Clinton campaign press release issued to portray Obama as inexperienced and, at the same time, hypocritical for his statements criticizing Hillary Clinton for her decades long plan to become President. The Clinton campaign later tried to play off the statement as "a joke."


— Katie Rooney


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