1) To say what you want whenever you want and whatever you say at the moment you say it is the truth.
2) To report something as fact, then immediately turn around and report the opposite as fact.
Obamaspeak Examples
Medicare is broke ... we need to have ObamaCare ... we can get it right -- like Medicare.
We're all in this together, we're going to be pragmatic rather than idealogical ... but I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking, I want them to just get out of the way ...
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)