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1
The "Game Change" definitely looks intriguing, but I didn't know their were any good VC Andrews novels out there.
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I'm reading David Plouffe's The Audacity to Win right now and finding it about 10x more fascinating than I thought it would be. It's not a scandalous political book, by any means, but it's just really interesting to get a bit of a "behind-the-scenes" look at the campaign. I'm trying really hard to take it with a big grain of salt in terms of how it portrays everyone involved (i.e., trying not to take how it portrays Obama as the gospel truth), but it's still pretty cool, at least for someone who's interested in all the geeky campaign stuff.

I will probably get around to reading Game Change this year...
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Cindy McCain must have the least self-worth of anyone on the planet.
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"...and nearly every page has some insidery bit of gossip that will have you forever doubting the integrity of any human being who decides to run for President."

Who above the age of 10 doesn't have this quadrennial doubt?

"Insidery?" You're better than that, Paul: everyone knows "insiderish" is the proper term.
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I'm sure you think its super hip to cite Bill Clinton's "casual racism," with out of context quotations and/or anecdotes, but lying about a public figure when you're reviewing a "sleazy political" book isn't necessary.

First off, I think you're referring to when Bill Clinton supposedly told my former Senator, Ted Kennedy, that Barack would be "getting coffee for us" a few years ago. Aside from the history of Starbucks enslavement of African Americans from 1776-2007, I can only imagine that you're thinking, only black Senators would be expected to get coffee for their older, white superiors.

Well, I've actually read Game Change; and I've also read Hillary Clinton's biography, A Woman in Charge (perhaps you consider this non "sleazy" political writing). In it, Carl Bernstein cites how then Junior Senator Clinton (when Barack was still in Illinois) accepted a small office, and to paraphrase, got coffee for her fellow Senators. In doing so, she garnered the political narrative of being a "work horse."

So, not only was it not sexist for a woman to get coffee for her male colleges (many of whom may have been Republicans), but it was actually politically expedient.

There are other anecdotes from the Hillary campaign, other than "coffee-gate," which I'm sure shook you to your empathetic core, with their racially racial, racial-ness. But I just want to set the record straight in regards to this one, additional, anecdote revealed by the again, "sleazy, political" book Game Change.
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Echoing @5, does the book have any reference to Clinton's "casual racism" aside from the much-quoted coffee line?

Because in 1994, Clinton was President, Kennedy was the lion of the Senate, and Barack Obama was a college professor two years away from winning his first statewide election. Reading more into than that seems like the kind of unjustified reach that Halperin is known for.

It's exactly like Republicans jumping down Harry Reid's throat, trying to rehabilitate Trent Lott by creating the impression that Reid meant the opposite of the plainest reading of his words.
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Listening to this Andrew Young on ABC the other night, I couldn't help but think that he's very nearly as sleazy as John Edwards -- to get to know the REAL J.E. and keep serving him anyway, right to the bitter end? And then write a tell-all book for his own enrichment?

Anybody with a shred of self-respect would've bailed long before.
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If you want to know who to thank for the loss of a supermajority (or the looming loss of a House majority), start with hipster douchebags slinging casual accusations of casual racism.

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