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It’s Thursday, meaning it’s the perfect day for a political throwback post.
Many of you might remember the book “Game Change,” the 2010 No. 1 New York Times bestseller written by journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin that spotlights the political drama that was the 2008 presidential election.
It was even turned into a television movie that regrettably only focuses on the Sarah Palin-centered morsels of the book.
There’s one particular passage from “Game Change” that arrives on page 6 of the prologue. It recounts the aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s loss in Iowa during the Democratic primary:
The advisers in the room were all longtime intimates of the Clintons and they had experienced their squalls of fury many times. But to a person, they found the display they were witnessing now utterly stunning — and especially unnerving coming from Hillary. Watching her bitter and befuddled reaction, her staggering lack of calm or command, one of her senior-most lieutenants thought for the first time, This woman shouldn’t be president.
That last line is both particularly illuminating of the past and crucial to the future: One of Hillary Clinton’s senior aides actually thought that she shouldn’t be president. One wonders how that same individual feels about her presidential bid today.
The next passage from “Game Change” is equally telling:
Hillary Clinton, once the “inevitable” 2008 candidate, defeated. Might history repeat itself in 2016?
