It stands for Cover Your Ass. One can always check the Acronym Finder. (I use it a lot.) In brief, Americans have become enamored of Political Correctness to the point folks really do have to Watch What They Say. It's pretty much instinctive by this point, and one often uses 'preemptive' statements to deflate the expected suspicions. So I point this up by doing it aloud, so to speak. Me, a racist? Nahhh. (In truth, my wife is a non-white immigrant, so if anyone called me that it would probably fall flat, but not necessarily.)
One reason Obama is neck-and-neck with McCain in the polls (when in every recent election, the Democrat was far ahead at this stage), is that people have gotten past his soaring rhetoric and begun to examine the specifics. You cannot please everyone! (Our election races being vastly longer than Canada's, folks habitually wait until the final weeks, if they bother at all.) I'm a non-typical policy wonk, who actually did work in Washington, DC for 8 months.
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Re: Don't Know Much 'Bout Geography ...
Date: 2008-08-31 03:20 am (UTC)It stands for Cover Your Ass.
One can always check the Acronym Finder. (I use it a lot.) In brief, Americans have become enamored of Political Correctness to the point folks really do have to Watch What They Say. It's pretty much instinctive by this point, and one often uses 'preemptive' statements to deflate the expected suspicions.
So I point this up by doing it aloud, so to speak.
Me, a racist? Nahhh. (In truth, my wife is a non-white immigrant, so if anyone called me that it would probably fall flat, but not necessarily.)
One reason Obama is neck-and-neck with McCain in the polls (when in every recent election, the Democrat was far ahead at this stage), is that people have gotten past his soaring rhetoric and begun to examine the specifics. You cannot please everyone!
(Our election races being vastly longer than Canada's, folks habitually wait until the final weeks, if they bother at all.)
I'm a non-typical policy wonk, who actually did work in Washington, DC for 8 months.