Building upon George Lakoff's idea of creating new terms to shape debate, my wife and I brainstormed words to describe how McCain is trying to use Obama's terms as McCain's own. We felt it was immportant, VERY important, that we develop a new term for someone (like McCant) who tries to make another's ideas their own. Therefore, we came up with the term:
"Prop"
As in, "John McCain propped Obama's message of change."
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