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p”Game Change” (Sat., 9 p.m. EST on HBO) offered a dramatized and unflattering look at Sarah Palin’s role in the 2008 presidential campaign. The story followed her from the moment she was picked from obscurity to try and jolt the campaign through to her emergence as a true superstar on the political stage./ppIn the intervening time, though, were many instances where advisors to the McCain campaign were stunned at her lack of knowledge regarding foreign policy, and even domestic concerns.

p”Game Change” (Sat., 9 p.m. EST on HBO) offered a dramatized and unflattering look at Sarah Palin’s role in the 2008 presidential campaign. The story followed her from the moment she was picked from obscurity to try and jolt the campaign through to her emergence as a true superstar on the political stage./ppIn the intervening time, though, were many instances where advisors to the McCain campaign were stunned at her lack of knowledge regarding foreign policy, and even domestic concerns.

Katie Couric is an outstanding talent and journalist. She is also courageous. These facts are immutable. In May 2006 Katie gave up her co-anchor position on the Today Show, a position she successfully held for fifteen years. She wanted to try something different. She also had important personal reasons for wanting a change; she is a single mother raising two young daughters. Katie chose an opportunity to anchor the CBS Evening News, the flagship newscast for America’s most storied broadcast news organization. Katie would be the first woman to solo anchor a network evening newscast.

In recent weeks, as part of an uncanny attempt to behave as generals fighting the last war, many in the Republican leadership have been floating Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, as the next Republican hope, or even the Republican Obama. The thinking behind this, while not particularly sophisticated, is, at least on the surface, easy to understand. Jindal like Obama is well educated, young and has an attractive family. These are not, however, the main reasons Jindal is so appealing to many in the Republican leadership who are looking for their Obama.