"Diversifying the 'Change' Rhetoric"

MICHELE NORRIS, Host:

There are no returns in yet from New Hampshire, but we think it's safe to declare the official word of this week in the presidential campaign.

ROBERT SIEGEL, Host:

Is there any candidate who is not promising change?

NORRIS: Change is coming to America.

NORRIS: Washington needs fundamental, top to bottom change.

NORRIS: I know that I have been an agent of change.

NORRIS: My message is entirely about change.

NORRIS: I am offering 35 years of experience making change.

NORRIS: Well, for candidates looking to personalize the rhetoric, we offer some alternatives.

SIEGEL: Courtesy of Merriam-Webster, vote for the candidate of alteration, modification, variation, transfiguration, rectification.

NORRIS: Rectification? Okay. How about transformation or metamorphosis or the candidate of refashioning, revamping, reworking? How about just difference?

SIEGEL: And from Roget, the candidate of shift, of substitution, transformation, transmutation. Maybe not transmutation.

NORRIS: I don't think so. A little too sci-fi. We're talking about a potential commander in chief, not the commander of some spacecraft. Just a few suggestions for alternatives there. Then again, do we really expect anything to...