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Imminently readable tome about the 2008 election, i swallowed it in one weekend.
In general, you like and hate each candidate at various times for the self-centeredness and lack of management skills. The fact that they all love to use the F-bomb shouldn't have surprised me but it does. I still thought, somehow, niaevely that these people occupy a different plane of existence than I do. While that is true economically, its not true morally or intellectually, that is clear in this book.
The whole American electoral process is not enviable or glamorous. People paint themselves as one thing and are all too often not what they project themselves to be. But a lot can be in the eye of the beholder--and in the case here, 80% of the time you do not know who the beholder is? a 20 year old idealogue or a veteran campaigner whose advice may have been disregarded, hence their bitter take on one of the candidates or their spouses?
As expected, the Palin pick was really misconceived and poorly managed scenario for her and the US citizen. The need for a "Celeb" trumped the need for someone who actually understands the world and our place in it, historically, culturally, economically--and had an interest in the world outside Alaska.
I'm not sure the title works, GameChange.--that is the ending salvo about Clinton's appointment as Secy of State--bringing two bitter candidates together.
Its too early to tell (Fox aside) if Obama has created a historic change as the GOP has lost site of the role of Congress/Senate which is to govern our land not just stay in office at all costs.
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In general, you like and hate each candidate at various times for the self-centeredness and lack of management skills. The fact that they all love to use the F-bomb shouldn't have surprised me but it does. I still thought, somehow, niaevely that these people occupy a different plane of existence than I do. While that is true economically, its not true morally or intellectually, that is clear in this book.
The whole American electoral process is not enviable or glamorous. People paint themselves as one thing and are all too often not what they project themselves to be. But a lot can be in the eye of the beholder--and in the case here, 80% of the time you do not know who the beholder is? a 20 year old idealogue or a veteran campaigner whose advice may have been disregarded, hence their bitter take on one of the candidates or their spouses?
As expected, the Palin pick was really misconceived and poorly managed scenario for her and the US citizen. The need for a "Celeb" trumped the need for someone who actually understands the world and our place in it, historically, culturally, economically--and had an interest in the world outside Alaska.
I'm not sure the title works, GameChange.--that is the ending salvo about Clinton's appointment as Secy of State--bringing two bitter candidates together.
Its too early to tell (Fox aside) if Obama has created a historic change as the GOP has lost site of the role of Congress/Senate which is to govern our land not just stay in office at all costs.
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