| Touch base | Terrorists / Terrorism | Strategy / Strategic | Job creation | Out of the loop |
| Retirement | Senator / Senate | Wall Street | Climate Change | Health Care |
| Campaign | Loophole[s] | 2008 BARACK OBAMA BINGO (free square) | Empower (or empowerment) | Change |
| Education | Unprecedented | Reform | Afghanistan | Spread the wealth |
| Crisis | Mortgage | Let me be clear | Benchmark | 9/11 |