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Although last week has been both heartbreaking and blind-siding (It’s a word because I say so), I sincerely hope that no one thought I was going to let the conversation die on Senator Reid and the comments that can only be described as the antithesis of what he should be thinking about his lowly colored constituency.  His regrettable comments were actually quoted in a book that I am just frothing at the mouth (literally) to read that answers the burning question of what could be worse than just a rouge (and that would be a rouge, a magic Light-Skinned Negro, a decrepit Maverick and Billary).

“Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin and The Race of a Lifetime,” written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin takes an in-depth look at the good, the bad and the prejudiced during the 2008 Presidential Race.  Like Reid’s comments, which were disclosed in the book, I found alleged remarks by Bill and Hillary Clinton to be equally eye-roll worthy.  But before I go tagging and cattle prodding the racially insensitive, I have to point out that many of the allegations and assertions in the book have reportedly come from anonymous political insiders, so we should pretty much expect that Heilemann and Halperin will pull a Woodward and Bernstein on us.  And it stands to reason that since the book does not have a bibliography, many politicians that were named and second-hand quoted by sources within their respective camps, are dismissing the author’s depictions of them as inaccurate or simply untrue.  Still, with Reid having come out and apologized for comments that the book asserted he made, there seems to be some truth to “Game Change.”

Take for instance then Senator Obama’s rather stunning caucus win in Iowa.  The book claims that Senator Clinton, while meeting with advisors accused Obama of playing the race card and importing people to the state to improve his chances at the caucus.  It also quotes Clinton as saying that she hated the choice that the country was faced with and that she thought that it was a terrible choice for our nation.

Not to be outdone, the book also details an alleged affair that President Clinton was maintaining in 2006 and how Hillary’s camp worked on a strategy to deal with any public disclosure had the affair been exposed in the media.  Unfortunately, William Jefferson’s naughtiness didn’t end there.  “Game Change” also points out how Bill offended the late Senator Ted Kennedy by telling him that “A few years ago, this guy [Obama] would have been getting us coffee,” while trying to garner the senior senator’s endorsement for Hillary over Barack.

The book also highlights the scandalous affair between John Edwards and his then-campaign-videographer-turned-baby-mama-#2 Rielle Hunter while his wife Elizabeth battled breast cancer, the many incoherent musings of the inescapably dim Governor Sarah Palin, and Senator John McCain’s cluelessness as to the Vice Presidential Candidate vetting process.

Salacious? Indeed.  Thought-provoking? You betcha.  True?  Well, that remains to be seen, and why I really need someone to order a copy for my birthday (as the books should be released by early March) so that I can conduct a thorough investigation of these allegations for myself *snide.* I’d even contemplated purchasing a copy to send to President Obama, but it seems that he has long gotten the memo and is aspiring to the age old adage.  And what better way to keep his enemies closer than by appointing them to his cabinet and inner sanctum?

I’m Just Saying.

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Article by Tiffany Haddock

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