Obama warns of the "old okey-doke"

[Scot LaFaive]

>I don't get it, Ben. Why is this worthy of note?

I seems worthy to me as it shows him attempting to connect with that
particular population through a phrase, a phrase which wouldn't work so well
here in the Midwest I believe. Just my opinion.

Scot

On Jan 23, 2008 10:05 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I don't get it, Ben. Why is this worthy of note? Now, if he'd said,
> "It's the same old shit" or even, "It's the same old confidence game"
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> FWIW, I myself went for the okey-doke a time or two, in my lost youth.
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> -Wilson
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> On 1/23/08, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> > From Sumter, SC...
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> http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/01/when_obama_call.html
> >  Obama used the friendly setting to urge voters not to be fooled by
> > what he said were untruths coming from Hillary Clinton's campaign.
> > "They're trying to bamboozle you. It's the same old okey-doke," he
> > said, using a slang phrase for a con. "Y'all know about okey-doke,
> > right? It's the same old stuff."
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> > --Ben Zimmer
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