Every day I am amazed at the anti-truths that spew out of the McCain/Palin campaign. But I think this one takes the cake. Cindy McCain said (to make it even more surreal, she was actually speaking at a children's hospital!):
candidate Sen. Barack Obama has "waged the dirtiest campaign in American history,"
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So, while Palin and McCain rallies are whipping their "supporters" into a near lynch-mob frenzy. The beautiful wife McCain is "helping sick children" while nearly simultaneously engaging in one of the most blatant examples of doublethinkI can remember. And with 8 years of Bush/Cheney to compete with, that is a major accomplishment!
Yes, I know that the Orwell references are all too common, and almost tired after the last 8 years. But how in the world can Cindy say that Obama has waged the dirtiest campaign with a straight face?
I see two possibilities:
- She is lying through her rich, power hungry, teeth
- This is a classic example of doublethink
From the novel, doublethink is described as:
to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully-constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them; to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it
Seems like an amazingly apt description of Cindy's statement.