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Time Magazine has put up a frequency map of the words used by President Bush in his 2008 State of the Union address. I was amazed to see that ‘education’ was mentioned four times, tying up with ‘nuclear’ and even defeating ‘oil’ by one whole number. I am surprised. Education has been barely making it to the debates, so this kind of frequent special appearance is noteworthy. ‘Terror’ (23) did trump ‘liberty’ (8) and ‘hope’ (11), but its running mate ‘war’ (3) failed to rise to the occasion.

splogs has a link to a video of the entire speech (sans applause, which is a time saver - believe me).

Now if only someone would put together an action map that would count the number of times the President got a standing ovation from the Republican side, or the number of times that viewers were treated to some rare Vice-Presidential smiles in the background. Wait, we have a number for that. It was twelve.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 at 10:35 pm and is filed under Political Science.