For me the Game Changer was Sarah Palin. How any serious contender for president of our country could pass her off as a qualified candidate was more than I could accept. And I was firmly in the McCain camp too. The account in Game Change put her vetting by the McCain staff at five days, which only reinforced my decision. How any 69 year old candidate for the highest office could spend only five days evaluating someone who could have authority over the nukes -- and still claim to be a serious person is beyond me. Someday I hope to be a Republican again. I believe that less government is better, the gun thing is disturbing but manageable, and I will count on the Supreme Court to maintain a woman's access to all birth control options. If the Republican party can regain some discipline and honestly face our challenges -- they can win back my vote.
Here are my take aways from the book:
- Barack Obama was the only serious candidate (or person) in the race. Edwards, Giuliani, McCain, Clinton, Palin, and all the rest come off as seriously flawed and unfit people.
- Discipline, discipline, discipline. Over and over Obama demonstrated his willingness to face his own issues and work hard to win.
- Michelle Obama is a force to be reckoned with and the only spouse in the book that was not a liability.
- The media has very little interest in providing the voter with the information necessary to make a considered decision.
If the authors are to be believed, and I have to wonder who can be believed anymore, Barack Obama is a capable and well intentioned person -- and by far the best of the choices we had for our President. So in that respect maybe our democratic/electoral process actually worked.
Here are some other book reviews you may find interesting:
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A note on my book reviews: You may think I have never met a book I did not like. In fact I read a fair number of books that I would just as well forget and I do not write reviews of them. I call these book reviews, but I really think of them as notes of impressions I had while reading that I don't want to forget. I put in the links to the other reviews so you can get real critical thinking about the work from some true professionals.