This should conclude my list of moments from the presidential race. I hope that this year is different from 2000 and 2004 in that there won't be any more surprising moments from now through Election Day.
100. "The fundamentals of the economy are strong."
[video]
101. "Would you like to ask him a question?" "Uh, no. I would like to mention that a couple days ago Senator Obama was out in Ohio and he had an encounter with a guy who's a plumber, his name is Joe Wurzelburger."
[video]
102. "Quite frankly, um, it might have been a better pick than me."
[video]
103. "It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to our state."
[video + transcript]
104. "I am surprised ... that he wasn't willing to say it to my face."
[video]
105. "You know who voted for it? You might never know -- that one!"
[video]
106.
107. "There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women."
[video + transcript]
108. "Senator Obama doesn't understand ..."
[transcript]
109. "No coal plants here in America. Build 'em, if they're gonna build 'em, over there."
[video + commentary]
110. "We need a steady hand at the tiller."
[video]
111. "Here's what you do if you're running a campaign in the middle of an economic crisis.... You go back to Washington. You handle what you need to handle. Don't suspend your campaign! You let your campaign go on, shouldered by your vice-presidential nominee. That's what you do. You don't quit! Or is that really -- is that really a good thing to do?"
[video at 2:55]
112. "I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago."
[video]
113. "You like to pretend the war started in 2007."
[video] + [transcript]
114. "We'd be happy to get to Michigan and walk through those plants of the car manufacturers. We'd be so happy to get to speak to the people in Michigan who are hurting because the economy is hurting. I want to get back to Michigan and I want to try."
[story]
115. "The more I'm in public, the more I don't even want to pick my nose."
[video]
116. “I have to tell you, he is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.”
[video at 0:25] + [story]
117. "I can't trust Obama . . . . He's an Arab." "No, no, no ma'am, no ma'am, he's a decent family man, citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues."
[video at 0:50]
118. "Zero!" "Zero?!"
[video] (watch McCain's face)
119. "Health of the mother . . . that's the extreme pro-abortion position -- quote, 'health.'"
[video]
120. "Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. . . . Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. . . . Gird your loins."
[story]
Monday, October 27, 2008
More greatest moments from the 2008 presidential race (up to 120)
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I can't look at that photo without cracking up. I know that it's just a momentary slip--that you can take a bad photo of anyone in an unguarded moment--but it's still pretty silly.
I think that people are going to wind up calling it McCain's "tank moment" (referring to the Dukakis photo op from the 1984 election.)
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