Mr. Smirky

Time mag's Mark Halperin has written another book. This time he took the high road. Instead of like last time, telling America how Democrats should be more like Republicans so they could win the White House and lamenting that neither would happen, the new one goes behind the scenes of the presidential race and:
1. Reveals Elizabeth Edwards to be the harridan we always knew she was (and who the fuck cares?)  and
2. Discloses Bill Clinton still letting it all hang out and
3. Shows Harry Rein understands him some white voters (although he has apologized for using the word Negro, gasp!)
This new book is bound to make piles of money and Mr. Smirky will be at long last, richer than most people in America even dream about. But sadly not richer than Sarah Palin. I hate that.
Also not as rich as he'd hoped, because the wall around Obama apparently has prevented Halperin and his co-author from proving once and for all that Obama is worse than even teabaggers' nightmares.  That's a lot of worse, baby, but still out of reach. We can only hope Halperin has another book in him.
I'm not going to tell you that Halperin and his nobody-you-ever-heard-of co-author, some sort of journalist again (I'm looking at you, John Harris. How'd your gig with Halperin work out? Remainder much?), will be on 60 Minutes tomorrow because then you might watch.
No, wait a minute, I want you to appreciate the smirk, go ahead and tune in.