optics (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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This usage goes back to 5/2008, if not earlier:

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/an_optics_problem_f
or_mccain.php


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> You know, public perception. Like on CNN just now:
>
> Anchor: ...took a brief ski vacation the weekend after the failed
> terrorist
> attack. Should he have done that?
>
> Clanker:  Well...certainly the optics are *terrible*.
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> JL
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> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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