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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: LindyBill who wrote (238528)2/13/2008 2:49:38 AM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 793970
 
I just learned two new words. Both fit Obama perfectly, for those who want somebody else to think for them:

Everybody else just seems to absorb a sense of Obama's mellifluousness from it, and then gets bored before long, but never holds their boredom against Obama, who seems like such a nice young man.

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mel·lif·lu·ous /m?'l?flu?s/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[muh-lif-loo-uhs] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
2. flowing with honey; sweetened with or as if with honey.

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Which sounds very anodyne, until you realize it's code for more quotas, more immigration, more multiculturalism, and more tax & spend.

an·o·dyne /'æn??da?n/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[an-uh-dahyn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a medicine that relieves or allays pain.
2. anything that relieves distress or pain: The music was an anodyne to his grief.
–adjective
3. relieving pain.
4. soothing to the mind or feelings.

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