Chisade

Chisade: (1) The unfortunate and tragic portmanteau of chicanery and crusade. (2) Giving the appearance (especially to one's critics and just about every one else in the world...) of conducting a religious crusade - and not truly a war - by supplying reports and other documents of the same with religious images and or quotations. (3) The conducting of said item (2) through the application of such devices as religious ideology, trickery, chicanery, cupidity, vacuity, confutation, obfuscation, and so on and so on... Reference: Donald Rumsfeld's Holy War.




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Bushama

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Bushama: Yes, we know we are offending the sensibilities of many of Obama's crowd, but we are somewhat offended by the decision of the new Administration to protect the old Administration regarding certain policies and activities as regarding torture. (1) The apparent morphing of the old and new administrations. (2) The rather shocking portmanteau of Bush and Obama. (3) The rather shocking realization that the Obama Administration may be defending the Bush Administration in certain illicit areas of US law.

References: Obama Aide: No Prosecution of Bush Officials for Torture Policy, U.N. Official: No Pass For Torturers, Government won’t release wiretap documents , Gov't Refuses To Release Wiretap Document and Obama keeps some Bush secrets.


Updated: Sunday, May 31, 2009








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Borge(d) - definition

Borged: (1) Presidential lassitude concerning outdated policies, and (2) speaking in bored tones or suggestive demeanor towards presidential policies, failure of same, and (3) acknowledging public weariness for same. See this entry also in our sister publication, The American Political Handbook.





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