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My normal wake up time is Oh-dark-Five-Hundred hours, so I'm in bed by ten most nights. My wife woke me up to tell me that Fox News Boston had reported that “they” had killed Osama. I wearily got up to catch it, and they were showing the White House briefing room with an empty podium, and said that President Obama would have a statement at 10:30. The Fox News Network kept up some pointless banter for nearly an hour, waiting for the “announcement”. I found it infuriating. It was completely self-centered, lacking in grace notes, without gratitude, verbose, vacuous and otherwise Obamaesque.

There is a word, “Lincolnesque”, meaning, “eloquent and moving in a plain spoken and unornamented manner”. [e.g., “I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.”]

There is a word, “Clintonesque”, meaning “infuriatingly evasive, deceptive, obfuscating, oblique, and tortured; obnoxiously lawyerly”. E.g., “It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.”

There needs to be a word, “Obamaesque”, meaning “solipolistically self-promoting, in a vacuous, meandering and verbose manner; appealing to the semiliterate through use of person references and vainglorious rhetoric.”