Glad I could satisfy you. The real issue behind this is a battle of dictionaries. It seems Merriam-Webster believes that language should evolve and new words and/or definitions can be added simply by popular use. They recently added ‘meh’ after all. Whereas it seems the American-Heritage dictionary runs through a panel in an effort to protect or control or force, depending on your view of it, classic word usage rejecting popular usage.
No, I think the real issue here is the hubris of the intellectual elite who have been touting Obama as the greatest genius mind to ever sit on the throne—uh, I mean—in the Oval Office. These elitists that constantly vilified Bush for his frequent misuse of the language are now being held to their own high standard. Except that Obamabots will make excuses (such as you did) for his error, because they just can’t admit that perhaps...just perhaps...Obama might have been WRONG about something! Instead, they insist that the English language is malleable, fluid, and changeable and words can mean whatever we want them to mean. And while I agree, new words come and old words go, (we don’t have much use for the word dwine anymore) and meanings change drastically (gay leaps to mind first), these evolutions come as a result of years and decades of common use (or lack thereof), not just because the fuhrer has deemed it thus, while his cheering throng stand in awe and tolerance of his every misspoken word. I’m just sayin’.