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Title: Culture of Corruption
Author: Michelle Malkin
Sentence: And, as we'll see, not only do the titans of Wall Street enrich themselves at the House of Obama, but so do the president's fat-cat union friends, with the added unctuousnesses of claiming to save America's workers while screwing them over.
Page: 194

Word: unctuous
Definition:
  • Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness: "the unctuous, complacent court composer who is consumed with envy and self-loathing" (Rhoda Koenig)
  • Having the quality or characteristics of oil or ointment; slippery.
  • Containing or composed of oil or fat.
  • Abundant in organic materials; soft and rich: unctuous soil.
   Source: The Free Dictionary

I am not sure the plural form needed to be used.


Title: Culture of Corruption
Author: Michelle Malkin
Page: 203
Blagojevich did the country an extraordinary unintended favor. As health care analyst David Carton wrote: “He has made it clear to the meanest intelligence that [President] Obama emerged from a hopelessly corrupt political culture. Barack Obama oozed from the same stinking Chicago swamp that produced Blagojevich, and a man whose formative years were spent wallowing in the muck with such creatures isn’t likely to be long in the White House before the stench of pay-to-play politics begins to pervade the place.”

After reading Game Change, this book is giving me whiplash.


Title: Game Change
Author: John Heilemann
Author: Mark Halperin
Sentence: Obama has "waged the dirtiest campaign in American history." [Cindy McCain] said one day. The next, she averred about the Democratic nominee's position on a war-funding measure, "The day that Senator Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body."
Page: 421

Word: aver
Definition:
  • to declare to be true; state positively; affirm
  • [Law] to state or declare formally; assert; allege
   Source: YourDictionary.com


Title: Game Change
Author: John Heilemann
Author: Mark Halperin
Sentence: But they would root for Obama secretly, doing whatever they could to help without affronting the aborning Democratic dynasty.
Page: 37

Word: aborning
Definition:    Source: Merriam-Webster Online

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