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
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John McCain
February 28, 2007
"We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure [in Iraq], which is American lives, over there."
—McCain during an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman in which he announced his bid for the White House. The following day, McCain told reporters he should have used the word "sacrificed" instead of "wasted."
— M.J. Stephey
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