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U. S. election 2008 | Best Campaign | Top 10 Funniest Gaffes of Election 2008

At the end of the final presidential debate, John McCain was caught on camera sticking out his tongue as he walked off stage the wrong way.

Sarah Palin boasted about her foreign policy experience to Katie Couric by saying, “As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border.”

John McCain demonstrated that he truly is President Bush’s heir by declaring, “You know, I think you may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more.”

In a rare but memorable gaffe, Barack Obama declared at a campaign event in Oregon, “I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.”

In what can only be described as a train wreck in slow-motion, Sarah Palin got stumped after Katie Couric asked her to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade.

Joe Biden lived up to his gaffe-prone reputation throughout the campaign. In one of his most embarrassing slip-ups, he called upon Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham to “stand up” at a campaign rally, despite the fact that he is in a wheelchair.

During an interview with a Colorado TV station, Sarah Palin was asked a simple question by a third grader: “What does the vice president do?” She got it wrong, claiming the vice president is in charge of the Senate.

In the most bizarre moment from the presidential debates, John McCain dismissively referred to Barack Obama as “That One.” Sales of T-shirts and button promoting “That One” for president quickly became all the rage.

After being asked whether the United States will “send an air mail message to Tehran,” John McCain began his answer by changing the words to a popular Beach Boys song, singing, “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.”

An exuberant Joe Biden committed an amusing gaffe straight out of the gate upon being announced as Obama’s running mate, calling him, “Barack America.”

Worth a Look :

• U.S. Elections 2008 | Cartoons | Part VI
• U.S. Elections 2008 | Cartoons | Part V  
• U.S. Elections 2008 | Cartoons | Part IV  
• U.S. Elections 2008 | Cartoons | Part III 
• U.S. Elections 2008 | Sarah Palin Cartoons | Part II
• U.S. Election 2008 | Cartoons | Part I
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• Palin’s phone call from fake French President

Linus Torvalds’ most memorable quotes

I really like this list of the top-ten Linus Torvalds’ quotes, as compiled by Computer Business Review. Linux is Linux in large part because Linus is Linus: A strong personality but disarming and approachable.

That latter attribute plays out in my top-two favorite quotes:

Some people have told me they don’t think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph.

And…

When you say, “I wrote a program that crashed Windows,” people just stare at you blankly and say, “Hey, I got those with the system, for free.”

Classic.