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
John McCain
Sept. 23, 2008
"I have not had a chance to see it in writing so I'd have to examine that."
—McCain, responding to a question during an interview with an NBC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, on whether he'd vote for the version of the bailout bill Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson first presented to Congress. Paulson had given Congress his three-page plan four days earlier.
— Katie Rooney
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