Obama warns of the "old okey-doke"

[Wilson Gray]

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"
...

FWIW, I myself went for the okey-doke a time or two, in my lost youth.

-Wilson

On 1/23/08, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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>  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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