Palin defends McCain's economic 'verbiage' (uses the wrong word)

or maybe it's the right word:

Palin defends McCain's economic 'verbiage'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/18/2367792.htm

Verbiage defended: Sarah Palin (AFP: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin says John McCain had been unfairly criticised for his "verbiage" on the state of the US economy.

Asked by Fox television about criticism over McCain's comment that the fundamentals of the US economy were "strong" despite a deepening financial crisis, Ms Palin said; "It was an unfair attack on the verbiage that Senator McCain chose to use..."

In an interview to be aired later today, she said the White House hopeful "means our workforce. He means the ingenuity of the American people."

While praising the skills of US workers, the Alaska Governor said "the economy is a mess."

The Macquarie Dictionary defines "verbiage" as "abundance of useless words, as in writing or speech; wordiness."

But she's still a Bush.

a word containing 'baggage' or 'garbage'??? as in 'the fundamentals' of the economy really mean the 'people'???

Otherwise, for example, the phrase "excessive verbiage" - which is perfectly standard - would be silly.

"manner of expressing oneself in words"

verbage spelling, jargon
/ver'b*j/ A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word "garbage".

She's a journalism major, right?