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

Hillary and the Foreign Media

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Hillary Clinton
February 27, 2007

"She kept saying this is only open for local media, not foreign press. I told her, I'm not foreign press. I'm local media. I was really angry. It's not about myself. It's about how the mainstream looks at Chinese as a whole. Why do they call us foreigners, even when we have a local address on our business card?"

—Portia Li, reporter for the San Francisco based Chinese-language daily World Journal, after the Clinton campaign barred her from a fundraising event in the Bay Area. A month later, Clinton apologized for the highly publicized gaffe and held a special media event for the Asian American papers in San Francisco. Clinton also hired Jin Chon as press secretary for specialty media. "We're not taking any vote for granted, and I want the AAPI community to know that I hope to earn their vote," Clinton said.

— Katie Rooney

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