Comments on Why You Should Care About David Foster Wallace (If You Don't Already)

I'm sorry, but I can't stop thinking that McCain's owners had DFW killed.

Wow. "...the people are cheering not for him so much as for how good it feels to believe him." Doesn't it kind of contextualize the 2000 McCain with the 2008...all of them?

Thanks for the links to his writing. I suppose I am in the minority, but I don't think I had ever heard of DFW, at least consciously. And so all this coverage has sort of depressed and surprised me, because I feel like I missed something great.

if i read it, will it make me want to vote FOR mccain? because i don't want to now.

I am currently engrossed in the article... did I read this in 2000? I must have. I remember now why I was excited about McCain then... and it's only the more depressing given the person he has become.

I wonder if there's video of him and the line that DFW says he used to say at every town hall:

I may have said some things here today that maybe you don't agree with, and I might have said something things you hopefully do agree with. But I will always. Tell you. The truth.

That would be some great video to pair with the McCain is a lying liar meme in an ad.