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...former economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was recently invited to the White House for a jobs summit, is more aghast at the vagueness of the speech. "He did not give one dollar figure," says Holtz-Eakin. "He did not explain how anything is being paid...
...singer Susan Boyle, reality show mainstays Jon and Kate, crooner Adam Lambert and the troubled Rihanna/Chris Brown pairing. Unsurprisingly, after a historic election in 2008 dominated the trends, it was a bad year to be a politician in 2009, particularly a losing one. In terms of search interest, John McCain fell the fastest, with Barack Obama (No. 4) and Sarah Palin (No. 5) not far behind. (See historical photos on Google Earth...
...does a reality star regain control of her narrative? First, she blames her producers and the editing. Going Rogue's villain is Steve Schmidt, the very McCain mastermind who vetted her as a running mate. Palin argues that if you didn't like her last year, really you didn't like the version of her that her handlers put forth. The botched rollout of her daughter's pregnancy, her getting pranked by a Canadian DJ pretending to be Nicolas Sarkozy, the campaign-wardrobe bills--blame it all on Schmidt and the stuffed shirts. They couldn't deal with the rogue...
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times: "All in all Ms. Palin emerges from Going Rogue as an eager player in the blame game, ungrateful to the McCain campaign for putting her on the national stage. As for the McCain campaign, it often feels like a desperate and cynical operation, willing to make a risky Hail Mary pass to try to score a tactical win, instead of making a considered judgment as to who might be genuinely qualified to sit a heartbeat away from the Oval Office...
Response to Going Rogue by former McCain aide John Weaver, Politico: "Sarah Palin reminds me of Jimmy Stewart in the movie Harvey, complete with imaginary conversations. All books like these are revisionist and self-serving by definition. But the score-settling by someone who wants to be considered a serious national player is petty and pathetic...