Words and Phrases...

...I hope never to hear again after the election:

Spew - This word has ignominious connotations, dating from my college days. Ugh.

Hate Speech - just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make it hate speech.

Wall Street/Main Street - I thought Walmart already killed Main Street.

Bailout - 'nuff said.

Astroturfing - which, apparently, is the technique of manufacturing grass roots support. This one's new to me and I'm already sick of it.

Stepford Wife - I thought they never left the house and that was the point. Sarah Palin has left her house.

Parsing - send this one back to the Department of English where it belongs.

Barack "Apollo" Obama - Sean Hannity needs to chill out.

Change - that's not a complete sentence or idea.

In the tank - yeah, I know most of the news media skew the news to favor Obama, but can't we call it something else for awhile?

Gaffe - this term has been applied to Joe Biden remarks so many times, no one takes anything he says seriously. That's dangerous.

As a life-long Republican, I have to vote for Obama - oh, please. Who do the internet trolls think they are fooling?

Obamination, Nobama, McSame etc. - new puns please, we have to get through 5 more weeks.

New and Hot:

Imitation disorder - apparently invented in response to Friday's debate, where McCain said something and Obama said the same thing.

I've got a bracelet too - proud descendant of "so's your old man" and "nah nah na na na."

Baracktracking - as far as I know, I invented this, so I'm trying to make it hot!