U.S. President Barack Obama has an unprecedented fondness for the word "unprecedented," a U.S. political magazine said on Wednesday.

Obama has used the word at least 129 times in speeches or statements since his inauguration, far more frequently than his predecessor George W. Bush who used it 262 times during his eight years in office, Politico magazine reported.

The problem is that Obama uses the word inaccurately. He said his town hall meeting with Chinese university students in Shanghai on Nov. 16 was unprecedented, but in fact George W. Bush and Bill Clinton both held such meetings during visits to China.

"Obama has said he 'took office amid unprecedented economic turmoil' and that the situation demanded 'unprecedented international cooperation' and resulted in his signing of the 'unprecedented' Recovery Act," the magazine wrote. "Yet it seems the Great Depression and the New Deal might be considered precedents for the current economic crisis and the $787 billion stimulus plan."

According to the archives of the American Presidency Project, Andrew Jackson was the first U.S. president to use the word "unprecedented," and his successors have used the term about 2,000 times so far.

Obama's overuse of the word "risks outsize expectations and overhype," Politico said.