Back in April...

...I penned an updated version of a G&S classic with the title 

I Am The Very Model of A Presidential Candidate

 http://31driftwood.blogspot.com/2012/04/al-smith-ran-to-waltzing-beat-of.html

I now offer a new version to serve as final reprise and epilogue 

 I Was 

The Very Model Of 

A Presidential Candidate 

I was the very model of a presidential candidate

Was whiter than the snows that fall so pure upon the Utah State

My family goes back so far in this great country’s history

And that is why the truth of who I am remains a mystery

My wife and kids are models of the virtues that our faith bestows

On those who watch their p’s and q’s and never step on Daddy’s toes

They’re loyal and obey their god, but I’m not known to spare the rod

Just one false step and you can bet I’ll send them to the land of Nod.

The Pundits all assured me saying “Mitt, you got this in the bag”

And in the polls all summer long it seemed I hardly ever lagged

In fact they seemed to show that ever since I won those fun debates

That I was gaining ground and turning blueish into reddish states

But now I see that some of them were simply going with their gut

That folks would vote for anyone who said “ The country’s in a rut”

They told me we could never fail, that liar Rove should be in jail

I made them rich, son-uv-a-bitch, we wagged the dog  to no avail.

And now Obama’s back in charge, and getting four more years of work

While I sit here and think about Paul Ryan (what a friggin jerk)

I gave him his big shot to give our great campaign a moral boost

And every time he spoke his mind he brought his chickens home to roost.

Latinos, blacks, most women and the young folks they all got me wrong

I promise they’ll regret it soon and betcha that before too long

They’ll all wish they had chosen me, to save our great plutocracy

cause no one who knows anything believes in a democracy

MY CANDIDATE FOR WORST EUPHEMISM OF THE NEW MILLENIUM

 Extraordinary Rendition.

Combining two euphemisms.  Extraordinary for illegal, and rendition for kidnapping to secretly torture. Wonder if the judges on  American Idol, The Voice and The X-Factor were advised to avoid using it in their assessments of contestant performances. 

The blogosphere takes another hit.  Apparently the much publicized report of  General Allen's voluminous (up to 30,000 pages) e-mail correspondence with the socialite Kelley woman in the Petraeus affair was in error.  Seems they were counting pages of documentation that consisted of many multiple copies of entire e-mail threads with each new e-mail addition.Revised estimates have it down to low thousands.  Whew, big relief to we scribes who struggle to fill a couple of pages a day.

False Cognate of the day. 

Embarazada -  Spanish for "I'm pregnant."
BTW.  Falso Amigos is Spanish for false cognates. 

S is for:
saprostomous	Having bad breath
scacchic	Pertaining to the game of chess, or to chess pieces
sciapodous	Having huge feet
scolecophagous	One who eats worms
sgiomlaireached	The habit of dropping in at mealtimes
skoptsy	The act of self castration
slubberdegullion	A filthy, slobbering person
sphallolalia	Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere
steatopygic	Having a fat behind
strikhedonia	The pleasure of being able to say "to hell with it."