Barack, uh, Obama, the, uh, Democratic presidential nominee, is often referred to as “articulate” and as an outstanding orator (just peruse the 444,000 results of a Google search to that effect for evidence).
This week, Obama gave a speech to a crowd of Hollywood acolytes supporters (Duane Patterson has the text). Below is the word cloud (courtesy of Wordle.net of that speech. For those who don’t know what a word cloud is, they’re clusters of the words that appear in a source text (in this case, the Obama Hollywood speech), with the size of the words being directly proportional to the frequency of those words’ appearance.
So, with that explanation out of the way, take a look at Obama’s Hollywood speech word cloud:
Good choice, Democrats. Barack Obama is exactly the person to bring smooth, skilled oratory back to the, uh, White House.
Well done.
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Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Steve Maley
Irony
tvjohn2 Thursday, September 18th at 5:29PM EST (link)I, uh, think it’s, uh, ironic that, uh, in Obama, uh, we find those same, uh, characteristics that, uh, liberals deride in, uh, Bush: stubborn (won’t admit opposing the surge was a mistake), never admits a mistake or apologizes (I’ve NEVER heard him apologize for anything), questions others’ patriotism, hates the first amendment, wants to invade foreign countries (Pok-E-ston anyone?), has a dubious VP who will play him like a puppet master on foreign policy, is inarticulate.
Rachel Lucas
itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, September 18th at 11:47PM EST (link)(who is a blogger and a medical transcriptionist) did an actual transcript of the Matt Damon spewing the other day and it read in such a hilarious manner that it was difficult to get offended by the ignorance that he actually said.
It would be funny to have a transcript of some of these “off the cuff” remarks of Big O.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
well, golly gee and gosh darnit . . .
producer Friday, September 19th at 4:52AM EST (link). . . as bush would say.
One question
acamus Friday, September 19th at 5:25AM EST (link)Which would you rather have: a president that says “uh” and improves things or a president that doesn’t say “uh” and makes things worse.