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Read David Foster Wallace's book.
Lots of reasons John McCain was really scary.
Lots of reasons John McCain was really scary.
DFW on scary John McCain: CNN was not interested in the part of a speech in which he "declared that our next president should be considered 'Commander in Chief of the war on drugs' and granted the authority to send both money and (it sounded like) *troops*, if necessary into
DFW: into 'nations that seem to need assistance controlling their exports of poisons that threaten our children.' When you consider the state of control of the media [censoring entertainment] is one of the big evils we point to to distinguish liberal democracies from
DFW: repressive regimes, and that sending 'troops' to 'assist in the internal affairs of sovereign nations has gotten the US into some of its worst messes in the last century, these parts of McCain's speech seem like the real 'frightening words that" ppl would want to know abt.
