Obamaspeak

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 ...

by Reality Master August 25, 2009

Obamasplain

Explaining a concept in an excessively high-minded and round-about way so as to leave the listener exhausted, confused and hopefully prevent he/she from asking follow up questions.

When Julie asked the car salesman how a bigger vehicle with a bigger engine could get the same mileage as a smaller vehicle with a smaller engine, the salesman Obamasplained that the question was not relevant to the purchase.

by strategeries November 23, 2020

Obamasplain

The act of explaining a concept in an excessively high-minded and round-about manner so as to exhaust, frustrate and confuse a questioner into submission and preclude any follow up questions.

When Julie asked how a bigger vehicle could get the same mileage as a smaller vehicle with a smaller engine, the car salesman Obamasplained that the question was not relevant to the purchase.

by strategeries November 23, 2020