Top 10 Obama Gaffes

The new president is quickly learning he has to watch everything he says — particularly when cracking jokes with a late night host on national television. But Obama's "Special Olympics" gaffe wasn't his first — and definitely won't be his last. Check out Obama's top ten screw-ups so far.

Obama Plays Dumb

Barack Obama
March 19, 2007


"We don't have the technical capacity to create something like that. It's pretty extraordinary." — Obama, disavowing the possibility that a YouTube video mocking Hillary Clinton was created by his campaign staff.

Two days later, the "Apple 1984 ad" spoof was revealed to be the creation of a political operative employed by a firm overseeing technology for Obama's campaign. The Obama campaign later said it "had no knowledge and had nothing to do with the creation of the ad," and the creator was fired.

Obama's Technical Capacity

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