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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Sarah Palin
Sept. 11, 2008
"In what respect, Charlie?"
—Palin, addressing ABC's Charlie Gibson during her first major primetime interview, when asked about the Bush Doctrine, a term that describes the Bush administration's justifications for the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, most notably the idea that the United States can wage preventive war against another nation even if the threat that nation poses it not imminent. Gibson responded, "Well, what do you interpret it to be?" to which Palin responded, "His world view?" That the term didn't resonate with Palin shocked political observers, but the McCain campaign quickly explained her unclear stance by calling the question's context "abstract," and some of her defenders argued that there are in fact several different Bush doctrines.
— M.J. Stephey
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