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President Obama’s second inaugural address in a Wordle word cloud

bill dawers — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:02:34 +0000

I previously posted the full text. Here’s a Wordle word cloud of that text:

Obama’s 2012 acceptance speech in a word cloud

bill dawers — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 04:19:49 +0000

I was surprised by the length, forcefulness, vision, and polish of President Obama’s speech, which was given very late last night — ours after it was obvious to me that he was going to win and almost as long after the networks had finally made their calls.

Click for a considerably larger version of this Wordle word cloud:

Obama vs. Romney in 3rd presidential debate: the last word cloud?

bill dawers — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:11:13 +0000

One final word cloud from Wordle.net — this one from the final debate between President Obama and Governor Romney. Names and titles have been removed:

It’s interesting how many words were used more than “Iraq” and “war”.

Word Cloud of 2nd Presidential Debate

bill dawers — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:24:04 +0000

Another Wordle word cloud — this time from the 2nd presidential debate. This is created from the Washington Post transcript with words such as the following removed: President, Obama, Governor, Romney, Candy, Crowley, applause, crosstalk, Mr., etc.

I haven’t had much to say about these things, but I will say I was quite struck by a passage near the end where Romney seeks credit for near-universal coverage in Massachusetts. As President, Romney has vowed to overturn Obamacare, which is extremely similar to what he enacted as Governor:

And as governor of my state, I was able to get 100 percent of my people insured, all my kids, about 98 percent of the adults.

Word Cloud from Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan

bill dawers — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:51:17 +0000

Another word cloud. Here’s last night’s debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan at a glance, with some names (Biden, Ryan, Raddatz) removed:

Word cloud from 1st presidential debate between President Obama & Governor Romney

bill dawers — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:52:31 +0000

I’ve removed the following words: Mr., Obama, Romney, Governor, President, and Lehrer.

Click for a larger version:

President Obama’s DNC nomination acceptance speech in a Wordle word cloud

bill dawers — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:33:53 +0000

I was pleased to see a speech so relatively heavy on policy.

Bill Clinton’s DNC speech in a Wordle word cloud

bill dawers — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 02:57:58 +0000

This is taken from the speech as prepared, not as delivered with so many improvisations:

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