I just finished reading Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. This books provides an inside view of the 2008 presidential campaign and all its personalities. If more than half of what is in the book is true, it is extraordinarily damning of the people involved in 2008. We should have all pulled a lever labeled, “None of the above.” All the candidates who ran for the nomination and presidency from both parties are portrayed as megalomaniacs, bumbling fools or disorganized big mouths and hypocrites. How sad for this country.

My reading of the book makes me feel that it is historically accurate. My only reservation is that the authors may be closet Obama liberals. I do not know enough about their backgrounds to make a definitive statement. What I do know is from the inside flap of the book which says that John Heilemann is the national political correspondent and columnist for New York magazine and that he has written for The New Yorker, Wired and The Economist. Mark Halperin is editor-at-large and senior political analyst for Time magazine and also worked for ten years as the political director for ABC News. Their resumes do not exactly give me a feeling of conservative leanings.

The book is well written and is extremely interesting. I had to force myself to put it down and do other things. Because of this, I would recommend the book. My favorite quote from the book is from then Senator Hillary Clinton on March 3, 2008: “I have a lifetime of experience I will bring to the White House. Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he made in 2002.”

The frustration that voters are feeling with Obama and his legions is palpable. Voters have expressed this frustration at town hall meetings and in larger “tea party” demonstrations. Despite the obvious voter antipathy for team Obama’s plans and the trouncing of Democratic candidates in New Jersey and Virginia, the Democrats have not gotten the message and have continued to move forward in the most arrogant path I have ever seen. A Scott Brown win would have to wake up the tone deaf Democrats and just might succeed in stopping socialized medicine in its tracks as well as slowing or eliminating future attacks on our capitalist institutions and ways of life.

Attorney General Martha Coakley (D-MA) has a thin resume and has arrogantly presumed from the start of the campaign that she is entitled to the Senate seat because she is a Democrat. She and other Democrats also appear to presume that since Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) held the seat for 47 years they should continue to “own” that Senate seat. She has not spent as much time as Brown in one on one meetings with the public to better understand what they want from an elected official. She has also made major verbal gaffes like calling retired Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling a Yankee’s fan. Schilling, referring to the people of Massachusetts, has been quoted as saying that Coakley is “out of touch with who they are and what they are and what they want.” You can read his interesting opinions and the comments that other Massachusetts residents are posting at: http://38pitches.weei.com/

Democrats are doing everything they can to help Coakley. Obama has campaigned for her and filmed a commercial with her. Ted Kennedy’s widow, Vikki has endorsed her. President Clinton has been flown in for his star power and major pharmaceutical companies raised money for her in a Washington, D.C. event. These are the companies whose lobbyists are helping Coakley: Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Astra-Zeneca, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, HealthSouth, and United Health. Based on that list, do you think that Coakley is representing what is best for you? (Perhaps she and other Democrats are trying to push through a huge health care bill that benefits the large pharmaceuticals and insurance companies instead of us. That would be my educated guess.)

Let’s hope that all this push from the left ends in failure like it did in the New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races. So let’s hear a loud and resounding, “Go Brown!”

It is not as strong as it was because America has changed demographically, but it’s virulent as it was.

Video of his interview:

The term “vast right-wing conspiracy” was coined by his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she was the First Lady. The term was as ludicrous then as it is now. That so called conspiracy is just the American people outraged by an aggressive and unpopular Democratic agenda.

During Clinton’s term, he also pursued a health care agenda that was wildly unpopular. He lost fifteen seats in congress as a result. This was no “vast right-wing conspiracy,” but instead the people of the United States asserting themselves. After that loss, President Clinton became less aggressive and arrogant and more mainstream in his views.

I think President Obama will suffer a worse fate during the mid-term elections. The people are speaking loudly at the town hall meetings, in rallies and in blogs. If President Obama just listened, he might realize that the “vast right-wing conspiracy” is really the “vast right of the people to vote.”

Please remember this reaction if she runs for president again in the future.

Senator Obama’s decision is now history. For the vice presidential slot, he picked someone who was not threatening to him. He picked Senator Biden–someone who had run for president many times and garnered perhaps three votes (from family members). This decision shows more about Obama’s lack of leadership than anything else in his background. He is a weak leader who makes poor decisions. He did not want a strong woman or anyone else who could challenge his status as media darling.

I’m not saying that I would have wanted Senator Obama to pick Hillary. I do not like her politics or her power grab in New York. I am simply saying that by not selecting her, Obama showed how weak he is. He showed his fear of the Clintons. He also did not want someone who could overshadow him. The right decision for him would have been to pick the person that could clinch him the presidency. That person was, obviously, Senator Hillary Clinton.

Senator McCain has done the exact opposite. He has consistently taken chances and he picked someone who could bring new vigor to his campaign. He picked an unknown woman who is spirited, strong and who has convictions in her beliefs. Picking Sarah Palin brought him closer to winning the presidency. She electrified the Republican party and made even liberal women pay attention to a campaign that was a sleeper before her selection.

Sarah Palin is the popular Governor of Alaska. She has run campaigns and won. She has apportioned budgets and made major decisions. She is a real person with a real family and she scares liberal Democrats and their supporters. They should be scared. Senator McCain and Governor Palin are a winning combination. Once McCain-Palin win in November, Vice President Palin will be positioned to run for president in the future and it will be the Republican party that has the first female president. That will be history and Senator McCain’s decision to pick Governor Palin will be seen as brilliant and presidential. Senator Obama’s fateful decision will also be seen for what it is: a weak and fearful decision from someone who talked a good game and didn’t deliver.