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There is so much apprehensive babble going on in Dem circles, "liberal" blogs, and columnists these days, aided and abetted by Republicans (especially those in hiding in the media) who enjoy seeing the struggle the customarily dysfunctional Dem Party is undergoing during an overlong primary season, Hillary who is engaging in desperation tactics to the disadvantage of her own political party, and the rest of the media who are mindlessly whooping it up in the absence of a juicy sex scandal, that perhaps the judgment of voters is being ignored with such a loud racket going on.
And, of course, should Obama do resonably well in PA anyway regardless of his "bitter" comment, the media will totally and entirely forget this presumed terribly destructive faux pas, and go on as if nothing of the sort ever left his lips. We cannot attribute media perfidy in this instance to cognitive dissonance, but just the same dirty business as usual.
Perhaps some Republican voters will indeed support McCain despite anything he says, or proposes, or flips, or flops, or has forgotten, or reveals his shocking ignorance, or embraces ol'
G W who they claim is destroying their Party - - only because McCain was "a great war hero" - - - but it strikes one as a case of profound cognitive dissonance.
Howl in pain because you've lost your livelihood, or your home, or a loved one in Iraq, or any of a thousand reasons this neocon Republican administration has caused, and you will still vote for the man who clearly and repeatedly claims he will continue the same process, taking up where Cheney/Bush has left off ? Cognitive Dissonance.
Excuse me if I do not believe all the crap and worry I hear from the media regarding how the Dems are going to blow the presidential election, when the same babblers are predicting that the Dems will gain at least 10 seats on the House and at least 3 or more seats in the Senate.
If that's true, then policy, Iraq, and pain are not the issues at all, but the fact that Obamna is an African American and will lose the entire South, maybe PA, Ohio, and a some of the other MidWestern states, and God knows how many "red" states in the West. But that, of course, is not case of cognitive dissonance. Ya'll know what that is.
