It Was the Best of Lines, Worst of Lines
The Politico News team published a list of the best lines and the worst gaffes by John McCain and Barack Obama, each with a commentary of how they affected the election's outcome, since these little nuggets are far more important than economic turmoil and that pesky international unrest that attempts to worm its way into the national dialog.
The analysis didn't include Vice Gaffer Joe Biden, since his best gaffes would probably eat up all the available hard drive space on the Politico web server and cause the internets to collapse. There was no reason to cover half woman-half pitbull-half barracuda Sarah Palin, who ran a tight, gaffe-free campaign.
Just like anyone else, I prefer seeing roadkill on the highway to roadside flowers, so I'll skip the best lines and head straight for the gaffes.
There is no ranking for the top gaffes but they should be pretty obvious: When Obama said in Ohio that he wanted to "spread the wealth around", inadvertently launching the country music career of Joe the Plumber, and John McCain's one-two punch: when he couldn't remember how many houses he owned, just 3 weeks before claiming that the fundamentals of the economy were strong.
There is a huge obvious error with this list: The worst gaffe John McCain made during the election was when he introduced his running mate as "Sarah Palin", which was a huge slip of the tongue.
He meant to say "Tom Ridge."
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Yeah. Everytime we hear Maverick we down a cup. After a while we get all wired on caffeine- fight and fuck and stuff.
Come on down to the Maverick Gaffe Cafe, have some straight talk espresso and a cup of Allbrite Misquocha.
Nope. Obama's best line: John McCain has ridden shotgun as George Bush has driven our economy toward a cliff, and now he wants to take the wheel and step on the gas.
I think he wants Jon Stewart's job
Obama's best line is the one he's gonna chop up on the desk of The Oval Office.
I didn't think the great lines were that great. And I thought McCain was very lucky Obama isn't a wittier guy with a harder edge to him. If it was me, when McCain said, "I'm not George Bush, if you wanted to run against him you should have run 4 years ago.". I immediately thought, ""I'm sorry I get you two confused. It's just you sound so much alike."
McCain's best (worst) gaffe: The "C Word." He should never talk about cancer with his melanomas and all.
Obama had a great gaffe today in Iowa: We don't have to chose between the market going wild & ruining the economy with greed & taking over financial institutions, we can do both !