Comments on: Candidates Reveal Their Biggest Mistakes

Katie Couric Asks The Top Presidential Candidates To Explain The Standout Slipups Of Their Lives

[incog-nito]

This is exactly why Bush is such a great president. Why? Because if you ask him the same question, I bet that he cannot come up with a single mistake he ever made in his life.

[likeitis5050]

We''re staring down the barrel of the primaries and we still don''t have clear cut answers or out right plans on how Hillary plans to pull the rabbit out of the hat. But she''ll tell you again and again how ''uniquely qualified'' she is to be president...and this seems perfectly acceptable to (enter her percentages here) of women/black women supporting her all the way....oh and more numbers about how women carry the votes now. In all these years, who knew overies were the secret ingredient to determining the ''most uniquely qualified'' person to be president? Imagine a contest historically dominated by women until a man finally steps up and declares himself uniquely qualified on the basis he''s spent 8 years grooming a woman to be the winner of the pagent and therefor feels he''s uniquely qualified to be the leader of the free world. He gained a lot of experience and learned how to move about confidently in a dressing room full of women in various stages of undress and knows all the ''secrets'' to keeping b.oobies and b.utts in place during the swimsuit portion. This is Hillary talking about how she feels so qualified to be president. She knows all the secrets the good ol'' boys use to manipulate voters. Smoke and mirrors secrets and now she''s an expert in being president. I don''t know who should be more feared, her or the people buying this garbage.

[kansas1946]

This is why people tune out politics. We get tired of listening to the spin, turning an opportunity for self-deprecation into a statement "on message." Giuliani: "One of my wives. Not sure which one." Obama: "Thinking I can get elected in this racist country." Romney: "Lying to Massachusetts to get elected." Clinton: "Putting up with Bill. Good president, lousy husband."
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Posted by sanevoice at 04:08 PM : Dec 04, 2007
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LOL, sanevoice. I had to laugh, because it would be nice to have a politician say something like that. The only one I disagree with is I think that Obama can be elected in this racist country. I think what is hurting him worse is the "muslim" thing. The right will keep sneaking out underground info that he is a muslim, is wanting to turn our country over to Bin Laden,,etc., Blah..blah. Nevertheless, I would vote for him in a heartbeat and bet a lot of other folks would too. Who are they going to vote for, one of these pitiful Republicans?

[kansas1946]

Well, I think from the political perspective, the biggest mistake I made was believing that my personal disagreement with abortion, and my view that abortion was wrong, that somehow I could accommodate my personal view that abortion was wrong with a public view that other people should be able to make up their own mind and the government wouldn''t play a role.
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LMAO. Keep sucking up, Mitt. Flip...flop..

[dan122754]

Why don''t you ask them some real questions, like how are you going to put people, like in michigan to work, That woulld be more tax dollars for company''s like, What the Hellaburtom!! I''m starting to think the real canidate hasn''t shown up yet! Just keep giving money away to all the other country''s in the world, and don''t worry about your own, I think all of you are out of touch, I don''t have the answers, but I have alot of sugestions. WORRIED!!!!

[xtcryanx]

I have tried to ignore the accusations of the media trying to keep Ron Paul out of the headlines, but this Katie, is impossible to do, with reporters like you.

[merlgrey]

leading presidential candidates?

i think someone from the republican side is missing, dont you katie? someone who has broken fundraising records and wins many many straw polls. journalism at its best... total lack of credibility and integrity.

[denn034]

We''re human and mistakes come with the territory.

[bwessels]

This is why people tune out politics. We get tired of listening to the spin, turning an opportunity for self-deprecation into a statement "on message." Giuliani: "One of my wives. Not sure which one." Obama: "Thinking I can get elected in this racist country." Romney: "Lying to Massachusetts to get elected." Clinton: "Putting up with Bill. Good president, lousy husband."

[hillaryin08]

Whats up with the 20,000 more troops in Afghanistan this year more than last year? What could George be up to?

[marcodele]

"And what was your biggest mistake Katie? Leaving the Today Show?"

[tylenol6]

Guiliani BIGGEST MISTAKE?????? HE IS SELLING OUT THE
USA. Google Guiliani and Cintra. Guiliani is a CROOK.

[samthetvcat]

"Couric: If you had to say specifically in dealing with healthcare what it was that you did wrong, what would that be?"

Great follow-up Katie! I was wondering the same thing, and still am...

Hillary talks about people in the abstract supporting the idea of universal healthcare but being reluctant when it came to the details, but people are starting to wonder about her details this time around too. Like if it was big insurance who were against her plan the first time and she has embraced them this time, then isn''t this effectively forcing the lower-class to channel their hard-earned money to big-business (since the middle/upper class are already covered through work). And insurance rates are based on risk level as determined by actuarial science, not ability to afford so for-profit private corporations aren''t going to be willing to implement a sliding scale.

So how are the lower-class going to be able to afford thousands of dollars of premiums a year? Is Hillary going to subsidize this? Who''s going to pay for the subsidies if she''s not willing to tax the upper-class? And what about paying down the debt?

And what about illegals who don''t get insurance?

Also, what will be the effect of illegals showing up to get treated by doctors when they don''t have insurance . . . will they be reported to the INS?

And can the system handle having an extra 30 million or so customers? Are there enough doctors and nurses? Are the facilities adequate?

[trogdoar]

How come they didn''t interview Ron Paul???

[edward1975-2009]

Biggest mistake some of these people made was ever entering the presidential race. Romney seems to be the better of the field at this point.

[antoniof123]

billysmith6 soon it will be President CACKLE to you.

LOL....