Top 10 Dumbest Quotes of Campaign 2008

From Daniel Kurtzman,
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Idiotic Gaffes, Misstatements and Brain Lapses by the Presidential Candidates

10. "I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --Barack Obama, at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)

9. "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book." --John McCain, in an interview with the Boston Globe

8. "I'm not going to put my lot in with economists." --Hillary Clinton, after being asked by George Stephanopoulos about economists' claims that her gas tax holiday proposal would not bring down gas prices

7. "Why can't I just eat my waffle?" --Barack Obama, after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania

6. "You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran." --John McCain, breaking into song after being asked about whether it was time to send a message to Iran (Watch video clip)

5. "Hold on one second, sweetie, we're going to do -- we'll do a press avail." --Barack Obama, to a female reporter for ABC's Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)

4. "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --Barack Obama, explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters

3. "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.

2. "Make it a hundred...That would be fine with me." --John McCain, to a questioner who asked if he supported President Bush's vision for keeping U.S. troops in Iraq for 50 years

1. "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." --Hillary Clinton, on visiting Bosnia in 1996, contradicting other accounts that said there was no threat of gunfire. Clinton later said she "misspoke" (Watch spoof video)

~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. Our taxi driver slammed on his breaks,
skidded and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.

My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!"

This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck."

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you . Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the streets. The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so..... "Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't."

Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it

THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY'  GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT
    WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN

    TO  $1.30 PER GALLON.

This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive.  It came from one
of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. 

If you aretired of the gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise  
this summer, take time to read this please.

     Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea.

    This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy gas on a certain  
    day' campaign that was going around last April or May!

    It's worth your consideration.  Join the resistance!!!!

    I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by this  
    summer and
   it might go higher!!  Want gasoline prices to come down?

    We need to take some intelligent, united action.
    The oil companies just laughed  at that because they knew we  
    wouldn't continue to 'hurt' ourselves by refusing to buy gas .

   It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for  
   them BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan  
   that can Really work.  Please  read on and join with us!

   By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $2.00  
   is super  cheap.  Me too!  It is currently $3.89 for regular unleaded in 
   my town, Seattle.

   Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned 
   us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $2.50 - 
   $2.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS 
   control the marketplace..not sellers.
 

   With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers  
    need to take action.

    The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is  
    if we hit someone in the pocketbook  by not purchasing their gas!  
   And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.

   How?  Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas.

   But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together  
   to force a price war.

   Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY  
   gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON  and  
    MOBIL.

    If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce  
   their prices. If  they reduce their prices, the other companies will 
   have to follow suit.

   But to have an impact, we = need to reach literally millions of  
   Exxon and Mobil gas buyers.  It's really simple to do!  Now, don't  
   wimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

   I am sending this note to 30 people.  If each of us send it to at  least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ...  and those 300 send it to at  least
   ten more (300 x 10= 3,000)... and so on, by the time the message  
reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE  
MILLION consumers .

  If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten  
  friends each,
 then 30 million people will have been contacted!

  If it goes one level further, you guessed it.....  THREE HUNDRED  
MILLION PEOPLE!!!

     Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people.  That's all!
    (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all  
     you have to do is send this to 10 people....  Well, let's face it, you just
     aren't a mathematician.  But I am  so trust me on this one.

    How long would all that take?  If each of us sends this e-mail out
    to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION  
    people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!
     I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did 
    you!

    Acting together we can make a difference.

    If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.  I suggest
    that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES  
   TO THE $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.  THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

     Keep  it going