Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won (book review)

I'm not a political gossip type, but this book may convert me, once I find it:

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/24/halperin-heilemann-obama-hil... the Guardian:[/url]

Quote:

Its incendiary topics range from ­private linguistic missteps (Senate ­majority leader Harry Reid encourages Obama to run because he thinks the country is ready for a light-skinned ­candidate who speaks with "no negro dialect") to minute yet key campaign blunders ­(Hillary could have had Caroline Kennedy's ­endorsement but she chose to ask a staffer to ring instead of doing so herself) to total personality makeovers. [...]

Throughout the campaign, Bill was known to be a liability, but here we see specifics: Clinton offending Ted Kennedy by telling him that "a few years ago, [Obama] would have been getting us coffee", and Clinton's ­ongoing ­sexual dalliances. Apparently, these were so familiar to strategists that entire ­conference calls were held over "Bill's bimbo eruptions". He was thought to be having an affair with a Canadian MP, a rich divorcee in upstate New York and the Hollywood actress Gina Gershon, as well as routinely going on trips to Las Vegas with his playboy business partner, Ron Burkle, whose private plane was referred to as "Air Fuck One".

Lots more of this "quality" stuff in the article...