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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
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housedesignerking's review against another edition
emotional
slow-paced
1.0
This book was sitting on a shelf at a dollar tree in 2011, one calendar year after its official release. John Heilemann and Mark Halperin tell the <i>allegedly</i> true story of the 2008 presidential election, McCain vs. Obama. I don't believe it. Not for one minute. This book only has an index. There's none of the following: acknowledgements, footnotes, notes, or bibliography. There are wild and crazy claims in this book about most of the candidates, not to mention a lot of inaccuracies. The wild and crazy claims include Hillary's insane tirades and toxic anger (she did get angry at times, but never to the extent of a tirade. She just yelled), Palin's mental instability (fictional) and McCain's unreasonable crankiness (only mildly possible in my book; it's not unheard of for a political candidate to get a bit cranky when things go wrong). Some inaccuracies: an allegation that Palin was part of the Alaskan Independence Party (the allegation was actually about her husband), that Palin and Biden just walked off the stage after their VEEP debate, and that McCain's campaign ran out of money before he "managed" to become the Republican nominee.
I walk away from this book feeling very doubtful. When Heilemann and Halperin weren't talking about what the public saw, they may have just made the rest of it up. I honestly got the impression the two authors had an orgasmic obsession with senator Obama because he was the only candidate that wasn't painted badly. The way they went back and forth between making someone look good and then bad and then good and then bad could've given me whiplash. It was enjoyable, don't get me wrong. I worked for the 2008 campaign (locally) so this was very nostalgic in a way. This was an election where you were either a racist, an idiot, a sexist, or un-American depending on who you were voting for. Palin was painted as mentally unstable and McCain as cranky just because the Republican ticket was gonna lose, and Hillary was painted as having toxic anger syndrome because she yells sometimes (and was even somehow a betrayer just because she accepted Obama's job offer after the election; how's that for not picking a side in this review? 😜). The 2012 movie of the same name takes the very small chunk about the Republican side of things and somehow managed to create a full-length movie. That movie wasn't very believable, either.
It gets 3 stars for being a very enjoyable work of fiction. I didn't believe very much in this book because I lived through the election.
I walk away from this book feeling very doubtful. When Heilemann and Halperin weren't talking about what the public saw, they may have just made the rest of it up. I honestly got the impression the two authors had an orgasmic obsession with senator Obama because he was the only candidate that wasn't painted badly. The way they went back and forth between making someone look good and then bad and then good and then bad could've given me whiplash. It was enjoyable, don't get me wrong. I worked for the 2008 campaign (locally) so this was very nostalgic in a way. This was an election where you were either a racist, an idiot, a sexist, or un-American depending on who you were voting for. Palin was painted as mentally unstable and McCain as cranky just because the Republican ticket was gonna lose, and Hillary was painted as having toxic anger syndrome because she yells sometimes (and was even somehow a betrayer just because she accepted Obama's job offer after the election; how's that for not picking a side in this review? 😜). The 2012 movie of the same name takes the very small chunk about the Republican side of things and somehow managed to create a full-length movie. That movie wasn't very believable, either.
It gets 3 stars for being a very enjoyable work of fiction. I didn't believe very much in this book because I lived through the election.
Content Warnings
Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Misogyny, and Infidelity
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