gaffe

1. We're now seeing that the McCain campaign conducted no vetting of Sarah Palin whatsoever.

By picking Joe Biden as his runningmate, a man known for the occasional racial gaffe, Noam Scheiber asserts that Obama is sending a subtle messsage to  suspicious whites:

Being a popular Southern Democratic governor sometimes doesn't allow one the opportunity to tow the Party line all that often.

To those who have been amazed over the last few weeks by John McCain getting out of every gaffe and scandal by saying it's ok because he was a POW (and also by the media who give him a free pass every time he does it), bear in mind that it's not a new thing. He did the same thing against his possible VP Mitt Romney during the primary:

It seems McCain, like Bush, would prefer to forget about Afghanistan and the failure to capture bin Laden. This McCain gaffe on CBS was edited out, as was his other gaffe on the Anbar Awakening/ Surge timeline.

McCain said:

It seems McCain, like Bush, would prefer to forget about Afghanistan and the failure to capture bin Laden.  This McCain gaffe on CBS was edited out, as was his other gaffe on the Anbar Awakening/ Surge timeline.
McCain said:
“We were losing the war in Iraq.  The consequences of failure and defeat of the United States [...]

There’s a great post over at National Review’s Campaign Spot. It has to do with Barack Obama’s tough-talking, man-of-experience makeover today of the now-famous answer he gave in the youtube debate about holding talks with people like Ahmadinejad. Maybe this is an example of a gaffe, but I doubt it. And if [...]

Newsflash: there is no “Iraq-Pakistan border”
Watch it.
The foreign policy expert John McCain proves again why he finished at the bottom of his class. If I had a nickel for every McCain gaffe … and this guy wants to be president?

The Los Angeles Times discusses the Tennessee Republican Party’s “Proud Video” as a harbinger of things to come as their spokesman needles the

Gift of gaffe, maybe?
Dan Collins titles this pshop “Sir Baracky Receiveth the Sword of Hopeyness from teh Watery Tart“. And that was before I added M’chelle.
(Oh, the dullard to Barry’s left? I’ve added none other than John Edwards, and given to him an uncharacteristically penitent pose, with (gasp!) his hair, covered. Oh, the indignity!
Because I [...]