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What I
See
The cognitive dissonance thing
Imagine the world now, had
Clinton and Obama been stillborn
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At a midday GOP rally at Macomb Community College, the president
unleashed a rhetorical fusillade on Bill Clinton and running mate Sen.
Albert Gore Jr., attacking their fitness for office, their character
and charging, “My dog Millie knows more about foreign policy than these
two bozos.”
In particular, Bush targeted Gore, whom he now calls
“Ozone Man,”
or just plain “Ozone.” “You know why I call him Ozone Man?” Bush said.
“This guy is so far out in the environmental extreme, we’ll be up to
our neck in owls and outta work for every American. He is way out, far
out, man.”
That's Hot
Air's Ed Morrissey talking about the moment he realized Bush 41 was
going to lose to Clinton. "When
I heard that, I thought to myself, “What President talks like that?”
Part of the advantage the office gives an incumbent is its gravitas."
Cognitive dissonance.
Did GHWB say anything that was the slightest bit untrue? Were the
press reporting anything at all negative about those two
clots? I
know what Morrissey is saying, but I sure wish John McCain had asked
Obama about his birth certificate, or his use of a phony Social
Security number, or any number of things that were known about Obama's
character, but generally
unreported at the time. In fact, McCain's greatest, most selfless
act would have been
to do what Billy Pilgrim couldn't
do. Use his access to Obama during the debates to club him,
er,
senseless. In the good way of course. It would have been
like
forestalling WWII.
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