Surfing for Lies: Cindy McCain "I am an only child..." and Lee Atwater and the "Racial Problem"

So after I put the cartoon up yesterday I decide to see just what kind of lies were actually floating around that particular day.
I look for the pathological lies.
The ones that don't need to be told, but that they must tell anyway.
That tells you what kind of world that person is really living in.
One similar to all the rest of us or one that they have invented or shift around at will.

Case in point, Cindy McCain had a video a the RNC that said she was an only child, and she says that all the time in many formats.

But she is not. She has two half siblings, two sisters. One from her mother and another one from her father. So she was not an only child of either her father or her mother. I guess she is an only child "of that marriage", but that's a canard all by itself.

Was it so damn important to be daddy's only little girl that she lied about it? Apparently so.

We know that McCain and Palin are exercising the Lee Atwater strategy of the big lies , the large half truths, and the code words shouting "Nigger"(Atwater's term not mine).

But why the little things? Truth is they just don't live in the same world we do. So why do they want to control it?

See the story of Cindy's denied siblings:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93708729


As for Lee Atwater well, here is his take on his Southern Strategy in a text book written by an academician. Remember it at the end of October when McCain starts using it. What you don't think he will? Ha! He has already started, and even the press are repeating it.


"Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger.' By 1968 you can't say 'nigger' - that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me - because obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'Nigger, nigger."

Alexander P. Lamis (editor), Southern Politics in the 1990s (1999), ISBN 0-8071-2374-9.