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In a sign of our linguistic times ... our inability to say sh*t when we step in it. Huffington Post reports ...

Speaking in downtown Manhattan on Thursday, Obama used, as NBC's Domenico Montanaro pointed out, "the 'R' word."

"As most experts know, our economy is in a recession," said the Illinois Democrat.

It was, despite a preponderance of evidence of a tumbling economy, a debatable use of the term, and one that the Clinton campaign declined to copy.

Anyone who has ever encountered a skunk doesn't dispute the stink - except the skunk.