My brother sent me his copy of 'A Promised Land'
I am skimming through it. It is long. The book ends with the killing of bin Laden which I might read first.
shareI am skimming through it. It is long. The book ends with the killing of bin Laden which I might read first.
sharei have finally started reading this. he does a great job of explaining the 2008 economic meltdown and the behind the scenes meetings with john mccain and the bush white house.
sharehe is a good writer.
sharei finished the book. i more or less skimmed the health care section as a canadian i find it boring and incomprehensible that the us doesn't have some form of universal health care. obama has no time for sarah palin who doesn't know what she is talking about according to obama. obama was tempted to ask john mccain if he regretted picking her a vp candidate in 2008. he never had the nerve to ask
the chapter on the bin laden raid is the best in the book. i have forgotten how risky this raid was. the cia thought it was 50/50 chance of bin laden being there. this could have ended like jimmy carter's attempt to rescue the iranian hostages in 1980. obama made the call, it was a brave thing to do.
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