Game Change Chapters 5-8

Hilary Clinton is a politician who has a prettty solid background in this field and her family is quite famous for this as well.  There is some negative sentiment that goes along with all of the positive attributes to both her last name and her background.  Her husband Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States was known as a womanizer and was involved in a number of scandals, namely the Monica Lewinsky scandal in which he had an affair with the young intern.  These have come back to haunt Hilary through hindering her politicl career.  There are many different opinions people have of Secretary Clinton.  However, after reading this book I find her to be quite power hungry which goes along with qhat many people believe.  Bill dutifully attended all of her campaign rallies and supported her candidacy for the presidency, yet he made sure to generally stay out of the campaign because it was her campaign and not his, despite her large presence in Bill's presidency and attempts to overshadow him.  Fortunately, her own staff and the democratic party realized that she was not the right candidate.

In Iowa, Obama was not just sitting back and relaxing with the assumption that he had the nomination in the bag.  He was watching the battle being fought that he had been fighting with Clinton for a long time now.  When he won, it really delineated how this election could not necessarily be won by who ever it was who had the most money.  However, once Obama became nominated by the Democratic Party, he had the largest campaign budget in history due to a copious amount of donations.







Hilary is known by many for having a good political background and name recognition is there. However the name also has bad rep with Bills past scandals coming to bite her in the but. The media depicted her as a psycho who wanted power and after reading this book I believed it. Bill tried to stay out of the campaign but he was supportive always going with her to events and his want for a dynasty was always there. However he made it clear it was her campaign. Not to mention. Her own staff realized this woman is not fit to be president.(Didn't mean to sound sexist.)

While Obama was more human i believe, the day of Iowas primary he was relaxing with his friends but not cause he thought he had in the bag but because to enjoy a battle they just went through. While Hilary was campaighning trying to win so desperatly pouring so much money into this state. It showed how the public wanted Obama and this election was one you couldn't buy. It came down to who the public liked and they wanted CHANGE so they went with Change.