What Murphy’s Law and Obama’s Law Share in Common and How They Differ

Murphy Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.

 Saying, attributed to Major Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990), an American aerospace engineer who oversaw and designed safety-critical systems for the National Space Agency (NSA)

The following  word lists are for commentators on Obamacare’s failures and successes, for those groping for  words to describe its implantation problems, and for those who wish to comment on its progress in this world of partisan differences.

·         What Murphy's Law and Obama's Law  share, tendency for things to go wrong under their guidance, oversight, and leadership, as expressed in these  three word combinations.

Glitches, switches, hitches

Bumps, humps, stumps

Stumbles, tumbles, fumbles

Unspeakables,  untweakables, unreachables

Flaw, pause, flawed-cause

Falls, stalls,  sprawl

Mistakes, breaks, brakes

Errors, terrors, stretcher-bearers

Faults, defaults, halts

How Murphy's Law and  Obama's Law differ,  in their spheres of influence and  when things go right.

           Political, analytical, hypocritical

           Space, place, base

          Congresses, promises, accomplices

          Ideological, philosophical,  methodilogical

         Engineer, commandeer, cavalier

        Macro-systems, micro-systems,  non-systems

        Presidential, providential, reverential

       Pretension, prevention, dissention

       Benefits, deficits, limits

       Consequences, discontents, circumvents

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