How To Communicate with an Obot: The **OFFICIAL** English to Obamese Dictionary

~~By Grail Guardian

I was over at Not Your Sweetie recently, reading about the latest semantics gymnastics from the Obama camp, and it started me thinking that there have been an awful lot of changes to the English language in the last year. We’ve now got the WORM (What Obama Really Meant) and numerous other examples. So many, in fact, that I decided it’s probably time to give the confused reader a bit of guidance. So in the spirit of clear communication, I present the first edition of the…

InsightAnalytical **Official** English to Obamese Dictionary

English	Obamese
Bailout	Rescue
Stimulus package	Economic Recovery package
Massive Voter Fraud	Community organizing
Selection	Election
Coronation	Inauguration
Assault & battery	Caucus
Socialist	Progressive
Terrorist	Just a guy in my neighborhood
Radical Preacher	A guy at church I never listened to
Plumber	Threat to National Security
Violent gang of sanctioned thugs	Civilian Police Force
Violent gang of sanctioned thugs in Chicago	Obama for President Committee
Flip Flop	Smart adjustment to political reality
Preponderance of lies	A Speech
Union endorsements for opponents	Special interest endorsements
Union endorsements for Obama	Support from worker representatives
Spreading the wealth	Tax cuts for the working class
Rich	Anyone earning over ??
Washington insiders	Change
Bill Clinton	Racist/My staunch supporter
Hillary Clinton	Likable enough/Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s mailing list	Cash cow
Bill Clinton’s advisors	Old Style Gov’t./My New Cabinet
Rules	Old ideas, no longer important
U.S. Constitution	Floormat (See also Joke)
Palestinians	Internet campaign workers
Oil barons	Millions of small donors
Ruthless genocide	Odinga’s post-election change
Disagreement	Racism
Questioning	Racism
Truth Seeking	Racism
Patriotism	Racism
Upholding the Constitution	Racism

Of course, this is just a start. Please feel free to suggest any additions you might have!

CHANGE! …(your expectations)

Via Grail Guardian….from SLATE.

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I had raised a few questions about Obama and why I had some doubts and was met with an “I don’t care, I LIKE him.”  My parting words were “I hope you’re not disappointed.”

This woman was my age, so hearing this sort of thing was a bit unnerving at the time  I would have thought that someone older and wiser would have had more substanative reasons for “liking” a candidate.

Last night I had a conversation with another woman, this time a 26-year-old PhD candidate studying “counseling psychology.”  Now, months later, as the talk turned to politics, the conversation was even more frustrating.

I couched my end of the discussion with phrases like “I know you’re so busy,”  “I know being a grad student can be rather isolating,” “I know you probably have less time to really read a lot about what’s going on than I do,”  etc., etc. I was trying to make it easy for her…