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
"I didn't know we did it, and if I had anything to do with it, we'd have never done it."
—Biden, during an interview with CBS' Katie Couric, criticizing an Obama-Biden campaign ad that called Republican rival John McCain computer illiterate. As the Wall Street Journal later observed, Biden's slip-up seemed to embody the classic definition of a gaffe — when a politician accidentally tells the truth. Biden later admitted that he had never even seen the ad.
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