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| STRAIGHT TALK ON McCAIN: find out who is this chameleon liar the moment you are voting for him, and the day after |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Folks lining up lying telling you not to vote for Obama.
Get to know the alternative.
Read this book.
See if you can figure out who this guy John McCain is.
Twistier than a sidewinder rattler.
Good book.
Read it.
You gonna vote for an honorable Senator like Obama
Or a demonstrable liar like McCain.
He'll sell you all the snake oil you want right now.
But tomorrow . . .
Have a garage sale on whatever little is left after Son of Bush heads for his desert bunker.
Forget health care
Forget housing
Forget the poor and middle class
He is there for those getting over five million a year.
Like this his second wife.
Don't ask what happened to the first, after she lost her legs and he couldn't use her anymore.
Forget getting out of war for BP and Exxon.
Ready for that draft yet?
Read this book. Don't believe McCain. Eight years of Bush and where is Roe v. Wade?
Where's our nation, dude?
W's folks when they invaded the White House claimed Clinton's folks stole all the W's off the keyboards (like they did not just bring their own!).
W stole the entire treasury for generations to come.
McCain says the economy is "fundamentally sound."
Vote Obama.
Read Bobby Kennedy's Steal Back Your Vote! too!
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| McCain 4.0 |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I have read this book and passed it on to my neighbor who is career Navy. McCain is a snake, period. This very week he and his running-mate Barbie turned on President Bush (too much, too little, too late) in an effort to stem the raging tide against them.
This book presents a good case against McCain, not only as a megalomaniac but as a man of power who will abuse every trust to gain prominence in the Land of the Free.
Good read, quick read and very alarming.
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| Great book for unsubstantiated political generalizations about McCain and republicans!? |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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This short book (150 reading pages) is great at unsubstantiated political jabs at McCain and republicans. Uses lots of online blogs with no and unknown authors, as well as numerous anonymous people (that sound a lot like the author Cliff Schecter??) to make shallow generalizations. Unprofessional, jumps around back and forth in time, and repeats things 3 and 4 times. Doesn't have any real facts with teeth, doesn't mention the economic meltdown, bailouts, or housing crisis; and predicts McCain's VP choice will be a man. Save your money.
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| Well researched and documented, preaching to the converted |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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The book contrasts McCain's heavily airbrushed media-engineered image to facts, testimony and reports available in the public record that are not so favorable. There are no 'anonymous sources' as far as I can tell. All is well documented and, in fact, for anyone who's been around for the past 15-20 years, reading this book is more like a trip on the political memory lane. My own reaction was "yes, I DO remember that" - McCain's numerous 180's and than back on just about any important issue.
I am not going to cover the book's contents. All I can say is that it was a good read for me but I have a bias - I didn't think much of McCain before reading this book and I think a bit less of him after finishing it. Like I said, I was familiar with most of the events covered by the book but it was good to have them all in one place at this point in time where we are coming close to election day and McCain could become the next US president.
Good things about 'The Real McCain':
- well researched
- well sourced
- relevant to the current presidential race
- some humor
- not too long
Aspects that some may object to:
- not too many 'good' things (not balanced)
- the humor COULD be interpreted as 'sarcasm' by someone who had a favorable view of McCain
- the cover, while 'funny' is likely to turn away anyone who doesn't already agree that McCain is a bad person/politician
- the subtitle advertises the conclusion, something that should emerge from the process of reading the book
- the author does leave the impression (especially to current McCain supporters) that he is 'after McCain'
To conclude, this is a book worth reading in the second half of 2008 and will stay an important book for a while IF McCain wins the presidential election. If McCain loses, then McCain will quickly disappear from our public memories and this book will be as irrelevant and uninteresting as the accounts on Geraldine Ferraro or Bob Dole are today.
Footnote
If anyone is wondering why am I granting 4 stars to a book for which I listed a few 'negatives', my defensive explanation is: this is 'my' review. I tried to be objective and think of reasons why some readers may object to this book's contents or approach but 'my' own view is that it is a well-written, well-researched, fact-filled, relevant-in-2008 tome.
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| One And McSame |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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As the cover aptly shows here is McCain embracing Bush and everything he stands for. McCain supporters have clearly shown that the truth is the last thing they want to hear. Important topics are ignored by these people while they spin a most dismal ticket trying hard to hide the holes in it. The McCain/Palin ticket will be a litmus test for the sanity of the American voter. Read this book if you want a clear picture of McCain. He has gotten plenty of mileage out of his service record but what about the fact that he is not suited to lead a troubled nation? We need more than spin.
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