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Most list items here fall into 1 of 2 categories and, in the majority, are specific to this blog, the blogger of origin or to the discursive site of the temporal, open-ended series of observations, events and effects included in and on obamabidenusa.org.

This glossary contains words, phrases and concepts, and to a lesser degree imagery, sound and video. Of the former, many are obvious compounds of two or more concepts, or a hybird of two or more words to quickly refer to a common gimmick, attitude, observation, phenomena etc. unique to the period discussed and/or of the blog or blogger.

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Completely muddled? Then you should have just stuck with Glossary, below, and gotten to it.

Glossary

Auto-Indignification Response™ - a characteristic, automatic, immediate, hyperbolic and disingenuous, indignant over-reaction to a pseudo-perceived and/or manufactured slight, a misconstrued and/or out of context phrase or statement presented to provoke public outcry & sympathy on behalf of the responder as victim and incite antipathy toward the unknowing source. The larger goal of the AIR is usually to distract press and public from chronically negative news cycles, flawed performances, a dearth of ideas/solutions, an inability to understand or answer looming complex concerns etc., but may also be solely mean-spirited and immature.

BarackInfoBombs™ - you get this, right?

Sarcast-Insert™ - a sarcastic insertion by author or source quoted, usually the former.

MyBO - gimmick launched for the general election campaign by barackobama.com, when the campaign felt compelled to make the site more like a video game and virtual community than the fully outfitted workspace and actual community of exchange it had been before August, 2008 MyBO did put an end to juvey giggles at the phrase “BO”. I know we won, so campaign central will think it was effective, but my page was so junked out with imperatives & a rating system so you could see where the campaign officially ranked you in dedication level. You might be a ‘10′ on a Friday night, leave for a weekend of canvassing for Obama in a swing state (on your own dime), and return home on Sunday night to find yourself demoted to a ‘4′. There are still people accumulating thousands of “friends” trying to make it back to #’10′. At precisely 8 PM PDT, on 11_04_08 the rating system stopped, proving the fiscal efficacy of the campaign machine.  Not a minute more spent on publicly dividing the ’10’s from the ‘2’s.  The blog, a once peaceful and lovely place to exchange information, opinion and dissent, was filled with vituperous children screaming ‘troll’ at ruminating long-timers. Perhaps the strategy was to get the smart ones off the blog and on the ground. Job well done MyBO!