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Apparently, Obama Expert Was McCain Expert

Do you like

Joe Klein’s face

on your television all the time? Me neither. So other people can go ahead and publish the name of the guy who allegedly wrote that

O novel

.

Enough to say that today’s lead suspect is John McCain’s dearest speechwriter and

book collaborator

, a man who was looking at a fairly uphill road out of irrelevance before this. Now he’s gotten a little fart of publicity to propel him back toward the cameras. Maybe the publisher wasn’t

being disingenuous

, after all, when he begged the press not to investigate the identity of his secret insider author. This guy? On Obama? Ick, and who cares?

It ends up being a commentary on the tactical savvy and integrity of the McCain campaign. If this guy really knew how the game was played, he’d have written a novel called

P

.