I took John MCain's acceptance speech from last night's Republican convention and compared it to Barack Obama's acceptance speech from the Democratic convention and made wordles of each. John McCain's wordle is on top, Barack Obama's is on bottom. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos...">Best viewed large here.</a>
- Thomas Hawk
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What worries me is that the word 'freedom' isn't big enough to see in either one.
- Jay Wiegmann
I thought the word I and me would show more prominently in McCain's wordle. Fight is clearly visible.
- Russellreno
interesting to see a few prominent word differences. McCain: fight, government, world, make. Obama: promise, time, new. Also interesting, in keeping the Palin-Biden wordle comparisons, that the Democrats mention McCain a lot in their speeches by name but the Republican's rarely mention Obama by name at all. Both seem to mention country, America, and Americans alot.
- Thomas Hawk
I could tell who's Wordle was who's as soon as I looked at it.
- cecily
Obama is into McCain, but McCain is into Americans and the Country. hmm. Obama has America and American very large, but Americans is small? It just seems to me like Obama wants to tear us apart and McCain wants to fight for America. I know who Americans will vote for... not the guy who obviously hates them
- Noah David Simon
I think it is interesting how prominent the word "promise" is in the Obama one. Is he doing a lot of criticizing of other's promises or is he making a lot of his own?
- Kenton
@Kenton: Neither really. The usage was more in line with " indication of future excellence or achievement"
- AJ Kohn
excellence in tearing the other guy apart because he wants to fight for America? no thanks Obama
- Noah David Simon
looks like McCain doesn't make promises he can't keep
- Zach Chisholm
Fight for *some* of America it seems. And not fight and win at all costs in Iraq and hey, step off Iran and Russia we got some for you too. No thanks. I'll fight to get our economy back (which is directly related to the war), and eduction, and health care and equal rights. Oh, I'll fight alright.
- AJ Kohn
"who will bridge the vast ideological gulf between Clinton's hawkish, corporate-friendly centrism and Obama's hawkish, centrist-friendly corporatism?"
- Sean O'Hanley
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Quite true. This part is especially poignant to me as someone from a rural area: "There's an astonishing amount of violence in rural and semi-rural America; because it isn't geographically concentrated, it isn't reported with the breathlessness of "22 killed in DC in the first 6 months of the year!"" People are always shocked when I talk about the prevalence of violence in Vermont (having had people I know murdered, and having had hand guns pulled on me more than once).
- Chuck