Word: bushism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President even added a little Bushism to his mea culpa, one more for the road. "We were trying to say something differently, but nevertheless it conveyed a different message," Bush said--counting, as always, on his inflection, brow-wrinkling and calisthenic widening and narrowing of the eyes to get across his meaning. Maybe they should engrave that one over the doors of the future Bush Library. Love him or hate him, Bush has undeniably been a President who tried doing things differently, but nevertheless got different results. He is the free-market apostle who wound up ordering massive government intervention...
Though Bush has been "landslided" in the polls (a Bushism for "badly whipped"), he believes his stock will rise eventually. Consider: 52 months of prosperity between recessions. A situation in Iraq less calamitous than it once was. Even in the bungled response to Hurricane Katrina, Bush found a silver lining: the large number of people rescued from rooftops after the levees failed. "I think it's a good, strong record," he said...
...rights, John McCain on tax cuts, torture, health care and campaign finance, Mitt Romney on just about everything. But while Paul was getting attacked every time he called for a new direction, the rest spent the primaries minimizing and renouncing their previous departures, implicitly promising four more years of Bushism. McCain is lucky he has some time to craft a new message, because that's not where America stands today, either...
...accepted wisdom goes, the rest of the world focused most of its ire on Bush himself, figuring that he had somehow lucked into the presidency after a dodgy Supreme Court decision. But after 2004, that excuse no longer worked and there is some evidence to suggest that anti-Bushism turned into a broader anti-Americanism. So for many non-Americans this year's elections are the last-chance do-over. "This is a vital election, more than normal," says Pakistani journalist and author Ahmed Rashid. "It's vital for all of us, and for the Muslim world even more...
...shown pulling back the stage curtain as the President entered to cheers. Williams was given three separate interviews-in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and again in Philadelphia-with total time together, including non-camera time, of slightly over an hour. There was at least one Bushism, when Williams asked the President about one-time administration claims that Iraqis would welcome Americans as liberators. "I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome," the President replied...