| − | :Speaking to a gathering of firefighters in West Virginia, Democratic candidate John F. Kerry tried to reassure the audience that his position on Iraq war funding was quite nuanced — and served up one of the most devastating sound bites in modern campaign history: “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9441.html] | + | :Speaking to a gathering of firefighters in West Virginia, Democratic candidate John F. Kerry tried to reassure the audience that his position on Iraq war funding was quite nuanced — and served up one of the most devastating sound bites in modern campaign history: “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”<ref name="PoliticoGaffes"/> |