Obama quickly accepted, saying “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.” Reid, facing a tough re-election bid this year, spent the day telephoning civil rights leaders and fellow Democrats in hopes of mitigating the political damage.

The revelations about Reid’s 2008 comments were included in the book “Game Change” by Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin and New York magazine’s John Heilemann. The behind-the-scenes look at the 2008 campaign that elevated Obama to the White House is based on the writers’ interviews with more than 200 sources, most of whom were granted anonymity and thus much of the material could not be immediately corroborated.

Among the details in the book:

_ Presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton said she believed Obama’s team had used out-of-state supporters to win the Iowa caucuses and had intentionally exploited Obama’s race. She said the country faced a “a terrible choice” between Obama and Republican nominee John McCain.

_ Obama and running mate Joe Biden barely spoke, kept separate schedules and seldom campaigned together. The campaign kept Biden off the nightly calls that included Obama, instead having the campaign manager and senior strategist brief Biden separately.

_ Aides to McCain described the difficulties they faced with their vice presidential pick, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to McCain, is quoted telling Palin’s foreign policy tutors: “You guys have a lot of work to do. She doesn’t know anything.”

_ Former President Bill Clinton’s efforts to persuade Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to endorse his wife’s presidential bid fell flat when Clinton told the Democratic lawmaker that just a few years ago, Obama would have been serving the pair coffee

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In a jaw-dropping appearance on MSNBC Thursday, McCain aide Nicole Wallace told Time’s Jay Carney that the press wouldn’t get a chance to take shots at the hockey mom turned McCain running mate.

According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don’t care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace — in an appearance I did with her this morning on Joe Scarborough’s show — the American people will learn all they need to know (and all they deserve to know) from Palin’s scripted speeches and choreographed appearances on the campaign trail and in campaign ads.

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To me, this seems like Republicans are completely detached from reality, because for obvious reasons, 60% of independents said Palin was too unqualified, and 57% of unaffiliated voters had an unfavorable view of her.

http://climateprogress.org/2008/11/07/64-of-gop-voters-say-palin-is-their-top-choice-for-2012-69-say-palin-helped-mccain/#more-4172

So it’s pretty obvious that Palin didn’t help McCain overall. Despite this, Republicans seem to think that Palin is the best they can come up with in 2012. Why do they think that, and do you agree?

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I see Sarah Palin, or Mitt Romney winning the Repulican Primary, but Obama Biden winning the general election.

Palin I think would choose Bobby Jindal as her running mate.
Romney I think would choose Condi Rice as his running mate. (if she would run with him)

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“A video showing Sarah Palin, Senator John McCain’s vice-presidential running mate, taking part in a church prayer against witchcraft has emerged on the clip-sharing website, YouTube.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3077964/Sarah-Palin-in-witchcraft-prayer-on-video-clip.html

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Apart from her once being in and supporting the Alaskan Independence Party (http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html)
Apart from her winning a Ms Wasilla beauty pageant and coming in third in Ms Alaska pageant. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin)
Apart from her having 5 kids, one being under 1 year old and a Down’s Syndrome baby.
Apart from trying to have a certain book banned in the local library, and then threatening to fire the librarian if she did not get rid of the book (also on Wikipedia).
Apart from firing the Chief of Police in Wasilla because he would not dismiss her ex brother-in-law. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4916022.ece)

It has been said that McCain and she had only met once in passing…but how did she get from beauty pageant queen to Governor of Alaska, and just WHY did she get selected to be McCain’s VP?…that all remains to be seen, since more and more about this woman seems to be seeping through the cracks as we get closer to November 4th.

I don’t personally think that she is experienced enough to lead, and I would seriously hide in a fall out shelter until she were out of office should the unfortunate happen and McCain wins…and then dies…And I would take all that I loved with me!

I mean, doesn’t it really, truly, scare people to the core that this woman might end up being POTUS? Also, another question while I’m thinking about it. McCain supporters, has John McCain’s choice for Sarah Palin as his VP made you more willing to vote for McCain or more against McCain. Obama supporters, what do you think of Sarah Palin’s recent comments about Bill Ayers?

Loaded question, but I’ve been wanting to ask this question, or thereabouts for the past couple days now. Now, file in, make a nice line, and give me your opinions!
Okay just checked and the first link isn’t working, sorry, here it is! http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html
Argh, note to self…don’t put a ) at the end of a URL…Sorry guys, here is the link to the Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_palin
And the third link…DOH…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4916022.ece

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