misunderestimate
To quote one of my favorite words from President Bush, don’t “misunderestimate” the power of Palin. [1]
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Don’t “misunderestimate” Dubya. [2]
The term Bushism is a neologism that refers to a number of peculiar words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, and semantic or linguistic errors that have occurred in the public speaking of United States President George W. Bush and, before that, of his father George H. W. Bush, a former United States president. [3]
What President Bush’s opponents have learned not to do, in his own word. [4]
With 68 percent of Americans believing President Bush has done a poor job, and 82 percent saying the country is on the wrong track, the election of 2008 will turn on one issue: Barack Obama. [5]
With 68 percent of Americans believing George Bush has done a poor job, and 82 percent saying the country is on the wrong track, the election of 2008 will turn on one issue: Barack Obama. [6]
President Bush is a politician trained in strategic thinking at Harvard Business School, and schooled in tactics by experience and advice, including the experience and advice of his father, whose most lasting political mistake was the nomination of David Souter. [7]
Obama is not lacking in this capacity that President Richard Nixon, too, felt was an indispensable attribute of a statesman. [5]
The nemesis of former president Bush who won the presidential ‘election’ in Iraq with 100% of the vote and now faces Mr. Bush’s son in a showdown. [4]
If Sen. Obama can convince the people he is “one of us,” and not some snooty radical liberal from Chicago’s Hyde Park, who looks down upon white America as a fever swamp of racism and reaction, a la the Rev. [6]
Foreign-handed As in “I have a foreign-handed foreign policy.” [...] They may have started out as verbal slip-ups but several of President George W. Bush’s mangled phrases found their way on Tuesday to a list of the top words of 2002. [2]
After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, America wanted a leader who would not kiss Leonid Brezhnev on the cheek but reassert American power. [5]
A poem entitled Make the Pie Higher, composed entirely of Bushisms, was compiled by high school English teacher Dirk Schulze under the pseudonym of Richard Thompson, as an example of a found poem for his students. [3]
Portrayed as some Al Capp cartoon of a crazed right-winger and B-grade Hollywood actor given to spouting Reader’s Digest bromides, Reagan was regarded as ridiculous by much of the media and too big a risk by much of the nation. [5]
Sources:
[1] RealClearPolitics - Articles - Don’t ‘Misunderestimate‘ Palin’s Power
[2] CNN.com - Don’t misunderestimate Bushisms - Jan. 15, 2003
[3] Bushism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] Top Ten Word Lists of 2002 Announced by YourDictionary.com
[5] Don’t misunderestimate Obama
[6] Patrick J. Buchanan :: Townhall.com :: Don’t Misunderestimate Obama
[7] American Thinker: Don’t misunderestimate Miers