Here are a few of them:
• Marking the anniversary of the March 1965 "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Ala., Obama, speaking at a church, said his parents got together "because of what happened in Selma." Obama was born in 1961.
• One of Obama's stump lines is that the biggest obstacle he fights is not any of his rivals, it is cynicism. He used a variation of it during a reception he hosted at a conference here sponsored by AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Displaying a tin ear, Obama said that one of the enemies is not "just terrorists" or "just Hezbollah" or "just Hamas" -- "it's also cynicism."
• The Tribune dug this up: Obama, in his memoir, Dreams of My Father, writes of a story in Life magazine that influenced him -- about a black man trying to bleach his skin white. No such article could be found in Life or Ebony.
• Another Obama stump line -- he said it again Tuesday morning to the Communications Workers of America here -- is that "I've been long enough in Washington to know that Washington needs to change." He is running against Washington yet his campaign is populated with political professionals who are Washington insiders.
Perhaps Sweet left it out because it occurred on February 9, the day before his campaign kicked off, but this Obama stumble may hurt him the most: His dis-invitation of his pastor, the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, from giving the invocation at Obama's Springfield presidential announcement. That ham-handed gesture will hurt Obama in the African-American community--black Obama opponents won't let this one fade away.
Of course Obama's biggest gaffe was the "3,000 lives wasted" comment Illinois' junior senator made during an Iowa speech the day after his presidential announcement while criticizing the Iraq war.
How could anynone forget that one?
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