Word: blunderer
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...Christian Advocate, official biweekly of the Methodist Church, responded by charging that Johnson was "the victim of some faulty theological advice," and called the notion of putting up a memorial to God a "semantic blunder" because it "speaks of God in the past tense." Christianity Today, a conservative Protestant biweekly, said that while it would welcome "a recognition of the historical Christian roots of the nation," the idea of a monument to a generalized God should be dropped...
Their gravest blunder, and in retrospect the least excusable, was the notion that they could participate--even lead--in whipping up the most extreme and uncompromising attitudes among their constituents and local party delegations, then restrain these attitudes in time to avert misfortune.... By going so dramatically and forcefully on record in favor of the extreme position, Davis and his colleagues encouraged, if they did not ensure, the political result they did not really want...
Kennedy will never forget what his blunder brought about in South Viet Nam. Neither should we voters...
...wake of its stupendous blunder, Find-A-Bird chose to lie low. A source close to Find-A-Bird officials, however, reported that several of the corporation's commissions had been withdrawn and that its stock had fallen off considerably...
...Trumbull reported: "Experienced diplomats of various nations here are appalled at what they consider Washington's ineptitude in handling the current crisis. They say the Administration committed the fundamental tactical error of driving its adversary into a corner from which there was no dignified line of retreat. This blunder was even less explicable, they say, because Washington apparently had no workable plan of action ready for use when Ngo Dinh Diem defied the Administration...