I ran across the ?fresh idea while trying to wrap my skull around the "General Semantics" concept introduced by Skeptic Darrell at TT "Rat Living". Admittedly, abbreviating "rational" as "rat" could be legitimately seen as weasel-oid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words

"The key to improving weasel words in articles is either a) to name a source for the opinion (attribution) or b) to change opinionated language to concrete facts (substantiate it).[1]"

In my self-defense, I believe that I have heard major presidential candidates making plentiful crowd-pleasing or reality avoiding statements that were highly weasel-oid.

Case in point-counter-point: Asking BHO what he learned on his recent overdue (?weaseloid?) visits to Afghanistan and Iraq. Long on rhetoric, presumption, short on specifics?