A review by tlcesq
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann

5.0

Being a political junkie, and after having worked on the Obama campaign, I was really hoping for a behind-the-scenes reveal of the 2008 political season. I was not disappointed. And the one thing I came away with -- a firm belief that John McCain and the upper echelon of his campaign staff should be tried for treason. Simply put -- to select Sarah Palin as a candidate for the Vice Presidency when they had no knowledge or background on her was beyond the pale, and reveals a level of selfishness that should not go unpunished. The John McCain revealed in this book isn't the John McCain everyone "thought" they knew after the 2000 trashing he received at the hands of the Bush machine. Perhaps he became jaded, or the potential for victory overwhelmed any sense of responsibility he felt for the country. But he totally sucks, and he could have really screwed us for a very long time.