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10 Weird Things That Happened During Presidential Campaigns
AARP ^ | September 2016 | Frank Wiley

Posted on 08/20/2024 4:50:21 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Candidates have made plenty of blunders, quirky comments and plain old bad choices through the years

| Running for a second term in 1976, President Gerald Fold declared during a debate, “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.” Since the Soviets did, in fact, occupy much of the region, moderator Max Frankel gave Ford a chance to recant, but Ford held firm.

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I know an article from 8 years ago, but in my lifetime the biggest political mistake was this picture. >p>


1 posted on 08/20/2024 4:50:21 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Joe Pedo plagiarized Khrushchev’s “We Will Bury You!” to Americans on his final State of the Union Show. His own party then tossed him out of office.


2 posted on 08/20/2024 4:54:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Banana Voo Doo Queen is putting illegal scumbags on a Free Ride on the American Dream Express.)
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To: DallasBiff

I remember when I first saw that on the news. He reminded me of a possum with a big grin on his face sticking it’s head out of a hole.


3 posted on 08/20/2024 5:38:32 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: DallasBiff

John F’n Kerry reporting for doody and is this where I get me a huntin license?


4 posted on 08/20/2024 6:28:29 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: DallasBiff

The Gary Hart thing was pretty bad, too.


5 posted on 08/21/2024 7:43:08 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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