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Originally Posted by roachboy
so you have a strange little theater of therapeutic avoidance of cognitive dissonance which is itself being eaten away by the world that other people know about--so it has to be inflected as itself plus something else----i know what to do!-
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In this sense, he reminds me of the fictional Cornelius Fudge character from the Ministry of Magic (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)... or perhaps the Wizard of Oz, desperately flipping all those switches and shouting into his microphone from behind the green curtain, not realizing that Toto has pulled the curtain back for all to see.
Yeah, McCain has become such a caricature of himself that he reminds me more of characters from children's stories than a real politician.