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

Tancredo's Holy War

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Tom Tancredo
July 31, 2007

"If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina."'

— Tancredo, explaining to a group of Iowans how he would deter Islamic fundamentalists from attacking the U.S. The campaign has since stood by his statement, even though a spokesman for the U.S. State Department called Tancredo's comments "outrageous and reprehensible."


— Katie Rooney


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