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.”

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• 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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U.S. Elections 2008 | Cartoons | Part VI

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• 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

U.S. Elections 2008 | Cartoons | Part V | Sarah Palin vs Biden Debate

Some Sarah Palin Quotes

1. “As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?” –Sarah Palin, interview with CNBC’s “Kudlow & Co”, July 2008

2. “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.” –Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska’s proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS’s Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008

3. “Well, let’s see. There’s — of course — in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings.” –Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008

4. “All of ’em, any of ’em that have been in front of me over all these years.” –Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 

5. “I told the Congress, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’ on that Bridge to Nowhere.” –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it, multiple

6. “Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending soldiers out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.” –Sarah Pailn, on the Iraq war, speaking to students at the Wasilla Assembly of God, June 2008 

7. “I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to you.” –Sarah Palin, asked by Katie Couric to cite specific examples of how John McCain has pushed for more regulation in his 26 years in the Senate, CBS interview, Sept. 24, 2008

8. “That’s exactly what we’re going to do in a Palin and McCain administration.” –Sarah Palin, elevating herself to the top of the ticket, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sept. 18, 2008 

9. “Perhaps so.” –Sarah Palin, when asked if we may need to go to war with Russia because of the Georgia crisis, ABC News interview, Sept. 11, 2008

10. “I’m the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can’t.'” –Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor’s office without approval of the city council

Worth a Look :

• 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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