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

McPeak's McCarthy Comparison

Barack Obama
Nov. 6, 2007

"Do we think Barack Obama loves America? Is this stupid or what? It sounds more like McCarthy."

—General Tony McPeak, a former Chief of Staff of the United States Airforce in the Clinton Administration, and a co-chair of the Obama campaign, blasting Bill Clinton's comment that a McCain/Clinton general election matchup would involve "two people who loved this country"


— M.J. Stephey


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