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by Jason Rowan on September 10, 2008 at 06:00 AM

Obama/Clinton '08!...or not

In late August, the Los Angeles Times had prepared several alternate headlines for Obama's VP picks -- and somehow accidentally uploaded the Hillary Clinton version to the paper's Web site in the middle of the night. A hasty retraction was a little too late to keep egg off the Times's face over this mistaken announcement of the much-discussed Dream Team. No word on Joe Biden's hurt feelings.

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Former sailorNov 1st 2008 5:13AM

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Did anyone notice that AOL had that same (Clinton/Obama) headline up for a very short while?

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