There’s that word again… “Unprecedented”..

Is there no end to the word unprecedented in Barack Obama’s vocabulary. Obama has now referred to the Gulf Oil Spill as an “unprecedented disaster“. I’ve got to give him credit, though. At least this time, his use of the word is correct.

In case you missed it, here’s a link an old article “The White House’s unprecedented use of the word ‘unprecedented’”.

Here are just a few of his quotes involving his unprecedented use of the word:

“We begin this year and this administration in the midst of an unprecedented crisis that calls for unprecedented action.”

Obama noted, for example, that world leaders took“unprecedented steps” on nuclear nonproliferation at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council that he was the first U.S. president ever to chair.

“Obama has said he “took office amid unprecedented economic turmoil” and that the situation demanded “unprecedented international cooperation” and resulted in his signing of the “unprecedented” Recovery Act. Yet it seems the Great Depression and the New Deal might be considered precedents for the current economic crisis and the $787 billion stimulus plan.”

“an unprecedented effort to root out waste and inefficiency”

On bipartisanship, Obama raised a few eyebrows when during his first press conference he cited “putting three Republicans in my Cabinet” as “something that is unprecedented.”

These quotes came from a Politico article on Yahoo News:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091125/pl_politico/29896

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