November 18, 2011

The classic definition of a campaign gaffe is when a politician inadvertently speaks a truth that will hurt him politically. The first George Bush committed a gaffe when he said that the idea that cutting taxes would increase government revenue was \”voodoo economics.\” Similarly, it was a gaffe when Barack Obama said that insecure right-wingers \”cling\” to religion and guns. In other words, a gaffe is a politically inconvenient truth.