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10 Best Gaffes of 2010 That You May Have Missed
By A.G. Vargas - AOL NewsThis has been a year filled with many memorable moments. The political arena has had its share of off-script instances that were oftentimes disastrous but sometimes hilarious. You may have heard about many of them -- from Vice President Joe Biden's f-bomb at the health care reform event to Christine O'Donnell's "separatation of church and state" line to former BP head Tony Hayward's complaint during the gulf oil spill that "I'd like my life back." But there were several other off-script gems this year that you may not have seen. Here are my top 10. 1) Senator, Secretary, What's the ...
A Campaign Season of Gaffes and Gotchas
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WASHINGTON (Oct. 29) -- Memo to novice political candidates: Know thy Constitution. Don't tell Hispanics they look Asian. Pay special attention to what you say when you are in front of cameras. Which you almost always are. Expect your chitchat to go viral. And, really, try your best to stay out of court. Now relax. Be yourself -- if you dare. This is the year of the neophyte in politics. Anti-incumbent sentiment in general and the tea party in particular have brought fresh faces forward, many wet behind the ears in the brutalities of a modern campaign. The result: a rash of impolitic ...
In Nevada, Reid and Angle Dodge Each Other ... and Voters
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LAS VEGAS (Sept. 30) - Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican rival Sharron Angle, both known for their verbal gaffes, are avoiding potentially unfriendly voters as much as each other. In the nation's most prominent Senate battle, only one debate has been scheduled. Meanwhile, the candidates have made few public appearances at events where they might face tough questions. Nevada isn't an Iowa or a New Hampshire. There's no tradition of candidates feasting on funnel cake at the county fair or having a pint with constituents at the corner pub. Still, voters say they want ...
Democrat Chris Redfern Drops F-Bomb on Camera
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(Sept. 22) -- Because the vice president commits the occasional verbal gaffe, does that make it alright for anyone in the Democratic party to do so? That's the excuse Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern offered on behalf of himself, at least, after he referred to tea partiers and opponents of the Obama health care reform plan as "f---ers," at a 2010 midterm elections campaign event in Ohio earlier today. "If your kids are going to graduate from college, now he or she gets health care, your heath care, while he or she looks for a new job," Redfern said. "It's in the very base terms ...
Fark Weird News Quiz (Pie and Coffee Edition)
By Tony Deconinck - AOL News(July 30) -- Editor's note: How well do you follow weird news? Find out with this strange-news quiz from our obsessive friends at Fark.com. Test your knowledge, and check your answers below. 1. The leading candidate for the most bizarre religious news this week goes to: a) The Southside Bay Christian Church, which performed an exorcism rite on a motorcycle b) St. Peter's Anglican Church, which gave communion to a dog c) Blessed Sacrament's Catholic diocese, which voted for "the Holy Ghost" to fill a vacant council chair 2. Emergency responders arriving at the scene of a one-car accident at ...
Michael Steele: Just Sayin'. And Sayin'. And Sayin'.
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Michael Steele Backs Away From Afghan Remarks
By not in system - AOL News(July 3) -- Republican National Chairman Michael Steele backed away from comments putting the onus for the Afghanistan war on President Obama -- and suggesting it may be unwinnable -- but two more leading Republicans piled on the embattled party chief on Saturday. ...
Conservatives Say Michael Steele Should Resign Over Afghan War Remarks
By David Sessions - Politics DailyConservative strategist William Kristol, former South Carolina party chairman Katon Dawson and other Republicans are calling for the resignation of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele over Steele's suggestion that the U.S. effort in Afghanistan is doomed. At a fundraiser in Noank, Conn., Steele blamed the U.S. troubles in Afghanistan on the Obama administration and expressed doubts about coalition forces' ability to succeed in the violence-torn country. "Keep in mind again, for our federal candidates, this was a war of Obama's choosing," Steele said. "This is not something ...
Gaffe-o-Rama: Boehner, Biden, Obama and Palin
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(July 2) -- Talk about making a mountain out of an anthill. House Minority Leader John Boehner's poor choice of words to criticize financial reform legislation ignited a public spat that drew as much attention this week as the bill itself. In a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review interview published Tuesday, the Ohio Republican likened the bill to "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon." Democrats couldn't believe their luck. The White House and top Democrats on Capitol Hill scrambled to charge that Boehner was trivializing the financial crisis. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's communication chief told ...
British Elections: Why Glenda Jackson Should Replace Gordon Brown
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyMemo to the Labour Party HQ: Replace Gordon Brown with Glenda Jackson as your candidate in Thursday's election. It's not all that often that you have the chance to contemplate a "what if" scenario while an election is still under way. But that's exactly what happened to me on Friday afternoon. I was attending a "hustings" (open forum) for the Member of Parliament (MP) seat in my London constituency. It was the last time before the general election that the candidates from the three main political parties -- Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats -- would be together in one room. And as ...
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