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 Race Rationale

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Former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro

Hillary Clinton
March 7, 2008

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."

—Clinton adviser Geraldine Ferraro, a former congresswoman and vice-presidential candidate, in an interview with California newspaper The Daily Breeze. She defended her comments following the interview, but later resigned from the Clinton campaign.


— Katie Rooney


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