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Junge Welt, Germany
Cognitive Dissonance
By Rainer Rupp
26 January 2012

The U.S. president delivered a 66-minute State of the Union address. As is usual with this annual event, the incumbent gives a long laundry list of his achievements and makes promises for the rest of the year. This drumbeat is business as usual advertising, especially when it happens just 40 weeks before election day. In addition to the usual bombast that the United States is bigger, more democratic and simply superior to any other nation, the part dealing with foreign policy borders on satire. For example, “America must always stand on the side of freedom and human dignity.” This from a president under whom Guantanamo remains open and who has given more assassination orders than any of his predecessors.....................>>>>..................>>>>..................http://watchingamerica.com/News/139239/cognitive-dissonance/