McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain Audiobook (Unabridged)

" Fantastic, extremely insightful, typical (sadly untypical for majority of humanity) DFW brilliance "

" if you like self conscience reportage in the style of your favorite twenty one year old rolling stone writer- go for it. there's enough here to make you forget that the subject is a serious political figure who represents a generation of encrusted yet important men who still hold the stakes in the rich man's croquet game of the american political world. wallace is like, post modern and like, real happy with himself. "

" Find out why not to vote for McCain "

" Interesting look at John McCain via David Foster Wallace. It's nothing too earth-shattering, but it's nice to hear another perspective on the campaign trail. (Adapted from a much shorter Rolling Stone article.) "

" I'm a big fan of DFW, and this book is very insightful in spite of (or perhaps because of) the fact that DFW knows very little about modern politics. "

" I read this one during the election to try to get some nonpartisan insight into the candidate. The book was insightful into the campaign trail, but honestly not very insightful to the candidate himself and his worthiness for office. I was a disappointed. "

" Really interesting. (Can be found in Consider the Lobster also.) "

" An ever relevant peak into the mechanized domain of cyborg-politicians, this revamped bit of Wallace features all of his signature maneauverings while managing to provide some of the most forward, engaged political narrative ever to grace American shelves. "

" Back in 2000, before John McCain became nothing more than a republican shill, DFW spent the campaign on the Straight Talk Express. Likely the best political reporting to come out of the 2000 election. "

" MUST READ FOR THIS ELECTION!! "

" Surprisingly relevant twelve years later, particularly in relation to people's general apathy about politics, and on the difficulty of ever being able to tell whether someone is for real or just really good at selling you the idea that they are. "

" What a wonderful pairing: McCain and DFW. I only wish DFW was around for all future politicians. "

" im not really sure why this is being published now, when it was written for the ghost of election past, but im not going to complain because i love the dfw, and now i can rate it. greg will never catch me!!! "

" I love DFW no matter what he is writing about. And this is a great book about an important subject, the next Pres of the USA. He wrote it back in 2000, and a lot of the stuff he says about McCain then evokes what people are saying about Obama this year. "

" DFW's Search for Sincerity in the New Millenium, Post-Coca Cola, Monica Lewinski, and The Godfather. Lucid like a motherfucker. "

" Ugh this election sucked. So reading about it is painful. There were some pretty funny parts to this essay and some painful truthisms. "

" Certainly the highlight of Consider the Lobster. The introduction on this version is also worth a read (as Jacob Weisberg looks back on the 2000 campaign from the 2008 perspective.) "

" Perhaps the best read on McCain, the campaign trail, and what it's all about, since HST's '72. "

" A reminder of how much McCain has changed as a candidate since 2000 (so much for Straight Talk) and how different primary elections are from general elections. David Foster Wallace was such a good essayist. "

" Really interesting. (Can be found in Consider the Lobster also.) "

" Perhaps the best read on McCain, the campaign trail, and what it's all about, since HST's '72. "

" I'm a big fan of DFW, and this book is very insightful in spite of (or perhaps because of) the fact that DFW knows very little about modern politics. "

" I read this one during the election to try to get some nonpartisan insight into the candidate. The book was insightful into the campaign trail, but honestly not very insightful to the candidate himself and his worthiness for office. I was a disappointed. "

" Back in 2000, before John McCain became nothing more than a republican shill, DFW spent the campaign on the Straight Talk Express. Likely the best political reporting to come out of the 2000 election. "

" This is the last book I read. It's short, a very long magazine article, really. But it says so much about the process of how we elect a president and the MSM's approach to news coverage that you easily lose sight that the book is supposed to be about McCain's 2000 campaign. "

" The most objective look at a candidate in a very long time. And probably a long time to come. A must read for those disillusioned by electoral politics. May Mr. Wallace rest in peace. "