The greatest actress in American political history - Roger Ebert's Journal

By Roger Ebert on March 5, 2012 11:54 PM | No Comments



Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to inflame political passions and energize the John McCain campaign with star quality. That much we already knew. What I didn't expect to discover after viewing "Game Change," a new HBO film about the 2008 McCain campaign, was how much sympathy I would feel for Palin, and even more for John McCain.

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Seeing "Game Change" is like living again through the campaign of 2008. Much of the dialogue is literally words we've already heard. We're left with the conviction that Sarah Palin would have made a dangerously incompetent president of the United States, and that those closest to her in the campaign, including John McCain, came to realize that.

Three and a half stars

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