Obama Cartoons: Waffling Explained
Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
by Ira Coffin
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I came up with this cartoon after the subject of waffling came up in conversation after one of my previous cartoons. It came up that it was not Obama who waffles on some of these things it is the Teleprompters and so you have it, another cartoon is born. I also did some research on the term "waffling". Why you askwell it just seems like a strange word to attach to someone changing their mind back and forth.that's all. What I mean is how does a tasty breakfast dish get sucked into what has become such a sometimes derogatory name plate? Anyway, I could find all kinds of reference on who was waffling on this or that but nothing really on how it first came to be used as an "I changed my mind" term. If anyone could enlighten me on that..it would be cool. Enjoy and have a great day.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Very funny!-CrystalThanks Crystal-Ira
The term 'waffling' actually means to talk at length without actually saying anything of value. For instance, someone can 'waffle' on a school essay because they haven't done enough research and therefore lack actual information. Politicians waffle because they don't have a good answer to a question. Living in the UK I've been familiar with the term for all of my forty years, but in the early 1990's my American visitors had never heard of it and thought it a hilarious term. I'd love to know when it finally crossed the Atlantic and came into common usage in the USA.
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