On Deadline

Ron Fournier has covered politics for The Associated Press for nearly 20 years. On Deadline is an occasional column.
Clinton, Obama pay 'gaffe taxes'
Barack Obama's lament about the political obsession with gaffes instead of policy issues makes a point while missing a bigger one. Arguments about missteps are indeed diversions from the things that really affect voters. But there is and always has been a toll exacted from the candidate who blunders...