Best 2008 Campaign Gaffes

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Mary Choi and Erin Walsh on Aug 18, 2009 at 2:41PM

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Best 2008 Campaign Gaffes

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Blame It on a Lack of Sleep



"Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when if you, they just gave, you gave treatment early, and they got some treatment, and a, and a breathalyzer, or an inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven't had much sleep in the last 48 hours…"

—Barack Obama, speaking at a town hall in Bristol, VAs

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