What better way to engage with the breathtaking events of this week than to relive the 2008 election campaign in graphic novel form, with a special focus on the anger-induced nosebleeds of McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt? The Daily Beast has excerpts from the soon-to-be-released 08: A Graphic Diary Of The Campaign Trail by Michael Crowley and Dan Goldman. How very long ago all those Palin and plumbing-related antics seem now, and how disorienting it is to imagine what it'd be like if the person getting sworn in tomorrow were the tiny war hero John McCain. [The Daily Beast]
