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Memo to Snyder: Don’t stop the radical reforms now!A helpful Obama glossary
September 24th, 2009 | 
Author:
Bob Maistros
Many Americans are no doubt confused by some of the terminology used by the president in recent weeks as he has given speeches before a joint session of Congress and the United Nations, conducted a variety of television interviews and introduced new policy proposals. As a public service, we are providing a glossary of these terms with their real meanings:
Let's be clear.
ACORN – who? Never heard of them. (For related definition of Defunding – “holding a show vote on an amendment to eliminate funding, then bottling up the bill” – see the Congressional Glossary.)
Action (as in “now is the time for action”) – big government.
Balanced and sustained (as in “chart a course for growth that is balanced and sustained”) – involving more big government.
Choice – the opportunity to select big government.
Competition – we choose who wins.
Compromise – accepting my position after I give a big speech.
Cost savings – $900 billion in new spending.
Create or save (as in “create or save 4 million jobs”) – destroy or lose, as in 2 million jobs.
Engagement – a combination of unilateral concessions and America-bashing abroad.
Fact (as in, “these are the facts” or “to state a fact”) – my opinion.
Honest debate – agreeing with me.
Incorporate (as in “incorporate ideas from Republicans”) – include in the early stages of a proposal and then have Pelosi and Reid drop like a hot potato behind closed doors in the final version.
Irresponsible (as in “irresponsible behavior”) – constitutionally protected.
Misinformation – facts, when presented by our opponents.
Neutrality (as in “net neutrality”) – favoring one side in a dispute, especially when that side has supported your campaign and provided a senior White House staff member.
Necessary (as in “necessary war”) – not really that necessary, at least when it comes to backing up your words with required manpower and funding and standing up to your liberal base.
Negotiations without preconditions – the position I took vis-à-vis our enemies during the campaign, then denied taking, but am now trying to force on the Israelis.
Nobody (as in “nobody disputes [these facts]”) – no liberals or members of the mainstream media.
Non-profit (as in proposals to establish tax-favored, non-profit status for failing newspapers) – making official a condition that has existed unofficially for years.
Nothing (as in “nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have”) – everything.
Plan (as in, “the [health-care] plan I am announcing tonight”) – a really good speech.
Respect (as in, “respects the rights of the Israelis and Palestinians” or “the Iranians and North Koreans”) – overrun (Israelis) or elevate beyond reason with no expectation of reciprocity (everyone else).
Responsibility (as in the “responsibility” to buy health insurance or America’s “responsibility” to confront global warming) – big government telling people or nations things they have to do. (See “Action” above.)
Scare tactics – see “Misinformation” above.
Security (as in “stability and security” in health care or “true security for all Israelis”) – you’re toast.
Stand by our friends – desert our friends in order to “engage” with our enemies. (See “Engagement” above.)
Tax – certainly not the fine that goes along with the individual mandate. No matter what that little #&%@! Stephanopoulos or Webster’s say.
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Excellent, Bob!!! on FB earlier tonight, I was whining we don’t have the lexicon of perverted meanings the Omamba has taken over. But you missed a few, if I may be so bold:
Transparency – believing me when I say trust me when I say everything will be made clear to you after our closed-door sessions held by non-Senate approved Czars and presented to our lazy Congressional delegation who can’t be bothered, or given enough time to read what I present for you to swallow after they vote
President – Me in perpetual campaign mode
I won – I rule, you lose
Govern = not the privilege of leading the country (see I won above)
i’ll add another: Accountability – Democrats holding Republicans feet to the fire for Democrat failings [as in It's (still) Bush's fault]
Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research (hereinafter called ‘The Center’) – Death panel
Commissioner of The Center – Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, brother of Omamba Chief of Staff Rahm, author and philosophical father of Comparative Effectiveness, which determines that the potential of three 25 year olds is more determinative for the giving of medical treatment, to the proven contributions of one 75 year old (Section 1433 of HR 3200 as Amended and passed)
What, you all do not speak Barackan?
Public Option = Government run
Settled Science = Don’t argue
Settled Law = Don’t argue
Get in their faces = bite off their fingers
Love this!! It will be more interesting to hear his speeches from now on listening for these words. It’s like he talks in opposites. Whatever he says, he really means the opposite. Good work. I’m sure you can do an update in a few months.
Let me be clear – what follows will be either false or incoherent, but this precursor emphasizes that you’d believe every word of it.
I love it! I think I’ll print it out and give it to my kids to help them interpret the Obama speeches they hear at school.
Well said. Someone should put this in Obama’s stocking this year.
Very nice! Now, when he delivers a speech it will be clearer! Hidden meanings to those words!
That was awesome!
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“Shut up,” he explained.
Reminds me of reading A People’s History of the United States. The thing makes no sense at all; it feels like bizarro world.
Until you cross out “democracy” every time Zinn writes it, and replace it with “socialist dictatorship.” Then, your reading suddenly slides into the sharp focus of reality.
Right on the money, Bob! Only thing is, you left our “Racist” – anybody who is opposed to Obama’s policies.
As he gives speeches these definitions should scroll as needed in the closed captions.
One more add for the list: Ebamics. Straight out of 1884.
There is one missing:
Consensus – What I and those who I have brought into the room who believe the same thing believe as a group.
This is really good. I may use some of it on my blog if that is ok.
Extraordinary = Mediocre
We – as in wee-wee’d up aren’t ya? I won.
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let me add a couple:
Terroriists – demoncrats in white house, senate, and house, seen as implements of mass destruction
to the United states of America. Every stinking
one of these pukes should be taken out, tried and convicted of treason and terrorist acts, along with malfeasience of their oath of office, and hung from the lamp posts around the Washington belt way, leaving their rotting corpses swinging in the wind, as a warning to the next batch of clowns who have intent on a communist take over of the free Citizens of OUR United States of America.
obamafuehrer = the Chicago mob mouthpiece, who the
Chicago syndicate bought/stole by illegitiment means, the chair of the President of the United
States of America. This puke has just about enough brains to understand its raining, and to come in out of the rain, but not the first lick
of common sense. messiah, ha, like most Messiah’s
hopefully he will go Poof and disapear back into his bottle, Quick somebody, wheres the cork.
and the glue and safety wire to insure the dam cork
is never again removed from the bottle.
Crisis – Any event (aka excuse) that I determine gives me the authority I need to do what I want
Czar – liberal buddies that I owe favors
“I want to be clear about this” = “I’m about to channel the worst aspects of Richard ‘Let me be perfectly clear’ Nixon into my policies…”.
FWIW, I long to hear Obama’s adaptation of that wonderful phrase ‘You won’t have XXXXX XXXX to kick around any more…’. Guess I’m showing my age
“Let me be clear” = I’m about to lie to you.
Racism: Any disagreement with my obvious wisdom.
The Mess I Inherited: The Mess I exacerbated.
bipartisanship: expecting the Republicans to bend over and grab their ankles on my say-so.
bipartisan effort: anything that Olympia Snowe has signed on to.
dissent: (formerly: the highest form of patriotism. Now archaic) see: racism.
thanks for the enthusiastic responses. I may indeed update this over time.
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change=redistribution of wealth
Impeach this President..
Bob,
With your permission, I would like to repost this at my blog (with proper citation and link, of course). Please contact me if there is a problem with that.
Some of these additions coming from those commenting are on the money, too!
Keep up the great work!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Hilarious!!! Link coming right up.
Will send you any additions that seem worthy!
Excellent! LOL!
Great stuff…
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Another addition via The Heritage Foundation: We no longer have felons or convicts:
Next Tuesday, the Justice Roundtable is hosting Legislative Breakfast and Luncheon Briefings for House and Senate staff. Among the featured speakers at both events is Lawrence Garrison who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine and sentenced to 188 months (15 years, 8 months) in prison in 1998. Lawrence has since been released, but the Justice Roundtable does not identify him as a felon. Instead he is referenced as a “impacted person.”
So when you are in polite company and find the need to refer to a convicted criminal, remember, they are not called convicts are felons anymore. They are “impacted persons.” You’ve been warned.
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