I've just discovered these two excellent pieces in the New York Times about the extraordinary ways in which McCain and Palin are disfiguring the English language. A highlight from the Palin piece:
She dangles gerunds, mangles prepositions, randomly exiles nouns and verbs and also — “also” is her favorite vamping word — uses verbs better left as nouns, as in, “If Americans so bless us and privilege us with the opportunity of serving them,” or how she tried to “progress the agenda.”