Political Lexicon

The long and torturous campaign road that began two years ago will culminate tomorrow when America goes to the polls. Those two years provided a plethora of new words for the English language.

The following is a list of some of these new words to add to your vocabulary:


Acornucopia - the many new voters, fictional, living and deceased recruited to vote

Chicklets - potential female voters

Diarrhedundant - the same old bullshit

D'ohbama - Homer Simpson's cry when he voted for Obama by mistake

Eaubama - Obama's favorite cologne

Exxonerate - to ignore the huge profits of a corporation in spite of the populace struggling to make ends meet

Haymacker - a strong verbal assault against McCain

Hickocrites - rednecks who answer polls in support of one candidate, but vote for another instead

Intrussian - the act of spying on another country from one's front porch

Lenoency - restraint shown by Tonight Show in telling jokes about candidates

Lip-o-suction - French kissing a pig

Macropolis - one the homes McCain couldn't name

Macingosh - exclamatory remark to a stupid McCain statement

Obamaflage - the ability to deny the whereabouts of family members

Palindrome - Words spoken by Sarah Palin, that even when read backward, still make no sense

Polithongs - Sarah Palin's campaigning underwear

Racist - anyone who says anything negative about Barack Obama

Saragraph - a group of words and sentences uttered by Sarah Palin that make no sense

Sarahindipity - saying something that is correct and makes sense by accident and by mistake

Succupulant - one who supports a candidate they lost to in primaries, in hopes of landing a cushy cabinet job

Tomf*ckery - extreme form of tomfoolery

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