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Title: Game Change
Author: John Heilemann
Author: Mark Halperin
Sentence: Obama has "waged the dirtiest campaign in American history." [Cindy McCain] said one day. The next, she averred about the Democratic nominee's position on a war-funding measure, "The day that Senator Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body."
Page: 421

Word: aver
Definition:
  • to declare to be true; state positively; affirm
  • [Law] to state or declare formally; assert; allege
   Source: YourDictionary.com


Title: Game Change
Author: John Heilemann
Author: Mark Halperin
Page: 405

Prepping for the Vice Presidential debates the authors mention many of the problems Palin was having. This little snippet was interesting in that it gives background on why she started the debates asking Biden if she could just call him ‘Joe.’

  [Palin] also continued to stumble over an unavoidable element: her rival’s name. Over and over, Palin referred to Obama’s running mate as “Senator Obiden”—or was it “O’Biden”?—and the corrections from her team weren’t sticking. finally, three staffers, practically in unison, suggested, Why don’t you just call him Joe?
  Palin stared at them quizzically and said, “But I’ve never met him.”

Title: Game Change
Author: John Heilemann
Author: Mark Halperin
Sentence: The gaffe resurrected every caricature of Biden as a victim of terminal logorrhea and instantly crippled his fund-raising.
Page: 336

Word: logorrhea
Definition:
  • pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
  • incessant or compulsive talkativeness; wearisome volubility.
   Source: Dictionary.com

hmmm, logo=word + rrhea=flow, discharge


Title: Game Change
Author: John Heilemann
Author: Mark Halperin
Page: 335
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., didn’t want to be vice president—at least not at the start. He liked to trot out an old chestnut for his aides:
A woman had two sons; one goes off to sea, the other becomes vice president; neither is heard from again.

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