Saturday, October 20, 2012

Being nice cognitive dissonance

What I See        
  

The cognitive dissonance thing
Imagine the world now, had Clinton and Obama been stillborn


Res Ipsa Loquitor

    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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