Oh, For Goodness Sake

What’s The Worst Part Of The NY Magazine Excerpt About The Edwardses?

There are a whole lot of absolutely horrific incidents covered in this chapter of Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. It’s difficult to pick just one bad moment from a presidential campaign that should never have happened. But my pick has to be when one of the most respected voices in health care reform, a multimillionaire, threatened people who work for a living with loss of their benefits.

One day, she was on a conference call with the staffers of One America, the political-action committee that was being turned into a vehicle for John’s 2008 bid. There were 40 or 50 people on the line, mostly kids in their twenties being paid next to nothing (and in some cases literally nothing). Elizabeth had been cranky throughout the call, but at the end she asked if her and her husband’s personal health-care coverage had been arranged. Not yet, she was told. There are complications; let’s discuss it after the call. Elizabeth was having none of that. She flew into a rage.

If this isn’t dealt with by tomorrow, everyone’s health care at the PAC will be cut off until it’s fixed, she barked. I don’t care if nobody has health care until John and I do!

The health-care call attained wide infamy in the Edwards camp.

I imagine so.

Emily Miller on Politics Daily makes a very convincing case for a Pulitzer for the National Enquirer.