Archive for January 25, 2011
O: A Presidential Novel by Anonymous
It was during the 2008 presidential race that author Christopher Buckley’s delightful novel, Supreme Courtship, was released. Presciently, in the book, he had pitted two characters against each other: a senator who had run for president, served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, and who “just couldn’t shut up,” against a “glasses-wearing, gun-toting television hottie.” Months after the novel was conceived, Governor Sarah Palin turned out to be a nominee for Vice President running against then Senator Joe Biden. It truly was a case of life imitating fiction, Buckely later recalled in an interview. “I am announcing my retirement from satire,” he joked.
January 25, 2011
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Tags: Humorous, Political · Posted in: Humorous, Political
GAME CHANGE by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
If Hollywood Central Casting were asked to put together a group of actors with the most monstrous egos on the face of the planet, they could not have done a better job than the two national parties did in the last election.
January 25, 2011
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Tags: 2010 PB Release, Game Change, Nonfiction, Political · Posted in: Non-fiction, Political
