Political Jargon

As a complimentary offering to some of my past presidential race thoughts, here are some of words I have heard this week that keep being thrusted into commentary, speeches and analysis.

porc barrel spending
old-boy politics
outside the belt[way]
bridge to nowhere
corruption
change (by both candidates now)
trooper-gate
Roveian campaigning
Greedy Wall St.
Corporate fundamentalists
earmarks

With all this fun fluff, still interesting... and necessarily disappointing, that real issues have not been touched on, such as positions and views on the War in Iraq/Afghanistan, Geopolitics with Russia/Iran and the broadening energy gap, national debt, trade deficit, the domestic economy and climate crisis. Most Americans would rather devote their mental resources to [American] idols than cast their vote in the stakes for the American future. Gubers