Most Prolific Political Gaffes Of 2010

(blogs.rep-am.com)

You know that politicians often say very weird things like the fact that fish and men are somewhat related (see George W. Bush) or other stuff like that. Still, the actions they take are even weirder at times.

Thus, let’s see 2010’s most popular political gaffes.

For a man who talks as much as the President of the United States does, it is very common to lapse into incoherence from time to time. Speaking every day may be a burden for some, but not for Barack Obama. It used not to be, actually.

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In January, the President had to speak in Tampa, Florida, during a town hall event and when he was asked about the situation with Israel and the Palestinians, Barack Obama said “The Middle East is obviously an issue that had plagued the region for centuries.” Well, sure, it happens to anyone, but when you’re trying the entire year to get Israel to agree to a settlment freeze, such a thing should not happen.

Sometime in late November, Sarah Palin participated on Glenn Beck’s radio show in order to voice her concern about the fact that he White House would be weak-kneed in the face of another national security crisis. Thus, she found herself saying that “we gotta stand with our North Korean allies.”

Sure, it has happened before. Mistaking the South for the North is very common amongst politicians. Given that the North is the communist part of Korea and that the South is the one which is under the protection of the United States ever since the Korean War, everyone can misplace a noun or two. It’s the only time that Palin made the mistake, but she showed later in her speech that she knows that South Korea is actually friends with the United States and not the North.

Sharron Angle was running against Harry Reid for Senator of Nevada and she made the biggest mistake ever right at the end. In the last few days of the campaign, Sharron made an ad which portrayed her opponent as very soft in face of the dark-skinned men who were wearing bandanas and were sneaking across the border to commit to some sort of a gang.

Did the ad make her popular? Well, yeah! But it was not such a good thing for her. She tried to defend her campaign ad, but it all turned out even worse. To make sure everybody understood, she held a conference to some Latin young people and she said that “Some of you look a little more Asian to me.” What did that do to her? Well, those Asian-looking Latinos went and voted overwhelmingly for Reid.

Christine O’Donnell is very well known for her being a “constitutional conservative.” Thus, in a debate with her opponent Chris Coons, she made somewhat of a fool out of herself, showing people she has very little knowledge when it comes to the Constitution of the United States of America.

The two of them were arguing over whether public schools should teach evolution instead of creationism and while the moderator of the debate was trying to move past the whole situation, O’Donnell burst and asked Coons “You’re telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?” What did Coons do? Well, he responded with the relevant section from the Constitution, while people in the crowd were all gasping and laughing at what had just happened.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley was one of the people who had the biggest chances of taking Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. So, she started developing her campaign. Which was not so good or interesting. However, she is a huge sports fan and as you can imagine, she loves the Red Sox.

Still, with all her love, the woman does not now much about sports, it seems. I a interview she gave in January, she dismissed Rudy Giuliani as being a Yankee’s fan, and she also did the same thing, calling the legendary MLB pitcher Curt Schilling a Yankee fan too. Well, these things allowed Tea Party-fueled upstart Scott Brown to make way and take his seat in the Senate, as Massachusetts voters were not so sure that she’s the one who should take the seat.