What are the WH's favorite words or phrases?

[sabra]

Lately, it seems like I hear the word, "ideology" and "we appreciate" in almost every speech or news conference.

What else?

[KeepItReal]

1. Definitely "I Appreciate"...

They cannot start a speech or dodge a tough question without saying that first.

[GCP]

22. I appreciate the fact that you think like I do!

"I appreciate the question" is one of Scottie's fave phrases, and Bush uses "I appreciate" before he ever starts to answer anything.

I believe it's a method of buying time while the hamsters in wheels working the spin machines in their heads go into overdrive. :evilgrin:

[cyberpj]

2. Move forward..Move forward..Move forward..Move forward..Move forward..Move

Making progress too.

[Sanity Claws]

3. Freedom, free, democracy, partisan

[tk2kewl]

4. I think "Go fuck yourself!" is one of their favorites

[Talismom]

5. "It's hard work!" n/t

[SteppingRazor]

6. Any permutation of the phrase "freedom on the march"...

freedom marching, marching toward freedom, etc.

[KarenS]

14. that and "Spreading Democracy"

It infuriates me!!!



:nuke:

[obxhead]

7. They're all starting to soung like the teacher

from Charlie Brown to me.

[rainy]

8. at the end of the day

[jane_pippin]

9. I wrote this for a friend a while back:

The Following is a List of Words and Phrases that Need an Eight Year Ban Immediately After the 2008 Inauguration:

1. Evil Doer
2. Do So
3. Faith Based
4. Nook-u-ler
5. Clearing Brush
6. People of Faith
7. Workin' Hard
8. Culture of Life
9. Steadfast
10. Senator Rick Santorum*

*can be removed from lexicon as early as 2006

There are 15, but I only remember 10 offhand.

[countingbluecars]

10. There's always

9/11

[Hardrada]

11. "Uh..."

"See..."
"Already answered that."
"evil"
"I"

[TheFarseer]

12. Last year it was

'I love freedom' as if that was a great revelation or a tough stance. I haven't heard him say that lately though.

[The Witch]

13. freedom's on the march

turning the corner
they hate freedom
fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here
up or down vote
advice and consent
obstructionist
strictly interpret the constitution

and lately
ongoing investigation
get to the bottom of it
no comment

[Kurovski]

15. "The American people are patient."

Spoken mostly in reference to the Iraq war.

Boy, is this White House in for a surprise.

My personal favorite was the word "fabulous", used by George to describe everyone from Momma Babs to Donny Rumsfeld.

He's stopped using it of late, perhaps Karen Hughes advised him that it's unpresidential to use expressions picked up from gay male prostitutes who "bed and breakfast" at the White House.

[CantGetFooledAgain]

16. "I don't want to get into talking about..."

Scotty-ism.

[Kurovski]

26. Hehehe...

I could actually hear one-ply Scotty saying that when I read it.

[librechik]

17. "ah fooly unnershtand"

truer words never spoken, fool!

[leveymg]

18. Nucular.

If that's even a word. More likely, it's something in the soundtrack of a really scary video game for eight-year old boys.

I wouldn't want to get to the eighth level of that game. :dunce: :nuke:

[GCP]

23. What bothers me is that more and more people in the media are now using it

People who you think should know better are saying nucular. It's like being in school again, the "cool kids" say stuff that everybody else has to start parroting - not that I'm saying * is cool, just that it's those in power.

[ironman202]

24. sadly, Jimmy Carter started it....

and he was a freaking nulear sub commander for god's sake..

[ThoughtCriminal]

28. Maj. Kong (Slim Pickens) prounced it that way

In Dr. Strangelove.

[devilgrrl]

19. "there's an ongoing investigation"

seems to be their lasted pat excuse for avoiding the issue at hand.

[Imagevision]

21. me too > "There's an on going investigation"

[fooj]

20. Penninshoola...

Drives me crazy...:crazy:

[comsymp]

25. When something actually goes well, or they expect to be perceived well,

it's "unprecedented."

Of course, when the issue is something that's either going poorly OR is something being perceived as negative, the phrase is "previous administration"

[XemaSab]

27. duh... um...

uh... der...

I dunno...