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Juxtaposition of Roles and the New Vocabulary

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:28 am
by UNI88
Has anyone else noticed that with the change in Presidential administrations a number of posters have exchanged hats (i.e. protesters have become supporters and vice versa)? With this cosmic shift in positions they also appear to have swapped arguments, the reasoning and descriptives are similar with the nouns changing.

Let's have a little fun with this and come up with the words used by the Obama supporters/detractors and the corresponding words used by the Bush supporters/detractors just one or more years ago. I'll start:

Obama / Bush
Greedy & Selfish / Unpatriotic (i.e. anyone who opposes GWB's Iraq policy is unpatriotic / Obama's healthcare initiative is greedy & selfish)
Angry White Men / ?

Re: Juxtaposition of Roles and the New Vocabulary

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:32 am
by Pwns
2004 - anyone who opposes Bush hates America
2009 - anyone who opposes Obama is racist

2004 - who cares if the republicans have GDP and the DOW on the rise, it's a jobless recovery!
2009 - who cares if the democrats have GDP and the DOW on the rise, it's a jobless recovery!

2004 - Fox News is a dangerous yes-man for the government
2009 - Fox News is a hate-mongering network that is trying to incite a civil war

2004 - George W. Bush's 12-figure budget deficit is a threat to our future
2009 - Obama's 13 figure deficit isn't a big deal!