Code Words/Truth–War on drugs

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Truth

What we say today, no matter what we said last year or even last week; but see The Truth!!—John McCain

Tyranny

Civil rights, abortion rights, gay rights, and regulation of business; Federal taxes on alcohol enforced by Revenooers—Strom Thurmond, as Governor of South Carolina; Any restrictions whatsoever on slavery—any Civil War Secessionist

Tyrant

Yankee; OMG, he's Black!

UnAmerican

N*****-lover

Unitary executive

King; theocrat—Dick Cheney, John Yoo

Unlawful combatant

Whoever we say, to be held during King George “W.” Bush Jr. III's pleasure

Unpatriotic

N*****-loving; in the case of former US Senator Max Cleland, having lost only two legs and an arm while serving in Vietnam

UnReal UnAmerican

You.

Unsound

Principled

Uppity

Thinking that equality applies to you—Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-GA, called out by Stephen Colbert in Blackwashing

Voodoo economics

Never heard of it—Vice President George H. W. Bush

Voter Fraud

Anything that lets more unReal unAmericans—poor people and minorities—vote—John McCain; ACORN; the Democrat (sic) Party

War hero

Sen. John McCain, who got shot down over Vietnam by disobeying standing orders to evade the missile coming at his plane—John McCain; Not Max Cleland or John Kerry, however

War on drugs

War on Black society, particularly voting rights, epitomized by the old slogan "cocainized N*****s". See The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander

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