We’ve all heard the catch phrase ‘That awkward moment when…’ and you fill in the blank. Like ‘That awkward moment when you run into your boss at the ‘adult’ book store’. Politics has its own version: gaffes. And they are just as entertaining in print as they are in video.
"We have to pass it, to know what’s in it.” – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Obamacare, 2010
“And guess what this member would be all about? This member would be all about socializing — er, uh. [Pauses for several moments] …. would be about … [pause] … basically … taking over, and the government running all of your companies.” – Congresswoman Maxine Waters, 2008, after asking oil execs to guarantee that prices wouldn’t increase.
“…a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one…" - Harry Reid quote from the book Game Change byJohn Heilemann and Mark Halperin.
“You now have a hoodie you can wear and no one will shoot at you." - Barney Frank, speaking of Civil Rights leader Hubie Jones, at the Dartmouth graduation ceremony, 2012
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