Game Change Review

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Thursday March 08, 2012 · 9:46 AM PST

2012/03/08 · 09:46

“Game Change,” the Jay Roach-directed HBO movie about Sarah Palin and the 2008 presidential race, is an enjoyable, well-made but perplexing film. The book upon which it’s based, “Game Change,” by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, is about the entire 2008 presidential race with a large emphasis on the Obama/Clinton Democratic primary battle. Though I enjoyed the movie, throughout the film I consistently found myself asking the same question: why? What is the purpose of this film? Yes, it offers a behind the scenes account of one of the more bizarre vice-presidential selections in recent history but most of its revelations are already in the public sphere. Which leads me to ask again, what is the purpose?

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What did you think of Game Change?

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What did you think of Game Change?

Loved It

4 votes

Liked It

2 votes

Meh

0 votes

Didn't Like It

0 votes

Hated It

0 votes

It's Complicated

0 votes

No interest

1 vote

Voting for QB

DaveKoll

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 4:21 PM PDT

2008/10/08 · 16:21

I swear this has nothing to do with the current election but was curious as to your thoughts on the following football scenario:

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Who would you want to be QB on your team?

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Who would you want to be QB on your team?

Jason Campbell and Brad Johnson

17 votes

Brett Favre and Kathy Ireland

4 votes

Ralph Nader

1 vote

Bob Barr's mustache

7 votes

I don't know enough about football to make such an important decision

2 votes

I took a dollar from a homeless woman

DaveKoll

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Friday May 16, 2008 · 1:55 AM PDT

2008/05/16 · 01:55

I left work late today, around 7:45, and was in a rush to get home because I wanted to go for a run before The Office season finale at 9:00. In one hand I carried a briefcase full of papers and scripts and in the other, a plastic bag containing half a loaf of bread, a container of sliced turkey and a container of cheese; I hadn’t had time to make a sandwich that morning and had been spending too much on lunches recently so I decided to bring all the materials with me to make a sandwich at work.

As I exited the building into the surprisingly hot air I noticed an old Korean woman standing in the middle of the broad sidewalk. She was short, with greasy hair and ragged clothes but she stood firm with a straight back and a smile on her face. I could tell right away that she was homeless and, being in a fairly uncharitable mood, I quickened my pace and hoped she wouldn’t place the guilt on me of having to deny her inevitable plea for money. I approached and then passed her without eye contact and breathed a small sigh of relief as my peripheral vision had caught no sign of her turning towards me.

DaveKoll

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Tuesday April 15, 2008 · 6:57 PM PDT

2008/04/15 · 18:57

To all those Clinton supporters who say they will vote for McCain if Obama gets the nomination and all the Obama supporters who say the same I have one question for you...

Will you pledge to fight?

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When I vote for McCain and he goes to war with Iran I will join the following service:

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When I vote for McCain and he goes to war with Iran I will join the following service:

Army

5 votes

Navy

2 votes

Air Force

1 vote

Marines

2 votes

I will never vote for McCain

99 votes

A War In Name Only

DaveKoll

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Monday March 17, 2008 · 4:17 PM PDT

2008/03/17 · 16:17

The War in Iraq is over.

It has been over for years but Americans have failed to realize this; we continue to waste thousands of lives and trillions of dollars to keep fighting a war that has already been won. On May 1st, 2003 President George W. Bush stood on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and declared "Mission Accomplished." This image has since been mocked endlessly by progressive bloggers and late-night talk show hosts but those who do so neglect to realize the simple fact that he was right. The mission was accomplished. Whether or not the reasons we went to war with Iraq were justified (they were not), whether or not Iraq had any links to 9-11 (they did not), whether or not Saddam Hussein was amassing weapons of mass destruction (he was not), America went to war with Iraq and won.

But we never accepted it.

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