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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Hillary Clinton
March 17, 2008
"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
—Clinton, recalling her 1996 trip to Tuzla, Bosnia in a Washington, D.C. speech while seeking to bolster her national security credentials. A few days later the media found her account was exaggerated -- news footage showed her and Chelsea greeting U.S. troops on the tarmac, and an 8-year-old Bosnia girl reading the first lady a poem. A week later Clinton acknowledged she "misspoke," calling it a "minor blip."
— Katie Rooney
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