Epiphanies come in many forms. Some are personal, like the one I had after being invited to a hot tub party in Southern California: “I better start going to the gym.”
My political epiphany occurred there, too. (No, not at the hot tub party. In California.)
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The Oxford Dictionaries have chosen the word “omnishambles” as their word of the year. How apt.
Oxford defines the word as “a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.”
One only has to look at the Romney-Ryan campaign and the misbegotten efforts of the “super PACS” to see how applicable the word is to American politics.
But the Romney campaign is not the only one to merit application of the word of the year.
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“Reject These Voices”: Obama’s Ohio State Offensive
President Barack Obama found a way around this dilemma. His commencement address Sunday at the Ohio State University was a full-throated defense of his political agenda, backed by an attack on his opponents as un-American. He carefully built up strawmen, then casually torched them in his insouciant style.
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