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
Sept. 23, 2008
"We're not supporting clean coal."
—Biden, when asked by an environmentalist why he and Barack Obama support clean coal given that "wind and solar [power] are flourishing in Ohio." Biden's statement directly contradicts his running mate's stance on coal. The Democrats later issued a statement clarifying (or perhaps trumping) Biden's remark: "The Obama-Biden Department of Energy is committed to developing 5 'first-of-a-kind' commercial scale coal-fired plants with carbon capture and sequestration here in the United States." The McCain campaign, meanwhile, turned Biden's gaffe into a campaign ad called The Coal Miner
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