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The State of
the Union Bullshit in Context
This site
lets you use a Bookworm database to read Obama's State of the Union in
the context of all the other State of the Union messages given by
American presidents. For any word in the message, just click on the
text: the word will turn red. If you want to search a two-word phrase,
just highlight both words. (You can't search for phrases longer than
two words).
If you then click on a bar, you'll get an (ugly, unformatted, alas)
list of all the times that President used the phrase. Certain forms of
punctuation (hyphenated words, etc.) won't work quite right yet. Keep
in mind that the State of the Union has changed a lot in its history.
Of particular importance to understanding these charts is knowing that
it was written, not spoken, before Woodrow Wilson. You're looking at
the address: change that dropdown to use any other year as a
baseline.
Also, check out the two pieces Mitch Fraas and I wrote for the Atlantic
on the language of past State of the Unions and the locations mentioned
in past speeches. I owe the idea for this layout to Yoni Appelbaum and
John Gould at the Atlantic. The text of the speeches is from the
American Presidency project at UCSB, except for the 2015 text which I
took from the White House's post at Medium. [Full]
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Climate change will require that we invest more in rebuilding trust
ReplyDeleteso that our warmest years will be better for black America's bisexual muslims.
I didn't watch the SOU, but Uhbama did say that, didn't he?
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick
I just wish Boner and the rest of congress had decided not to invite Obama to address congress at all. Obama cannot just show up at his will. He needed a humiliating slap in the face.
ReplyDeleteSummary of all Obama's SOTU speeches:
ReplyDeleteBlah blah blah LIE blah blah LIE blah blah FALSE PROMISE blah blah LIE blah blah PARTISAN CRAP blah blah FALSE STATISTIC blah blah LIE blah blah LIE etc.
I may have missed a few lies here and there, but you get my drift.
King Obama opens most of his speeches with a lie when he says "My fellow Americans..."
ReplyDeleteVlad-The-Inhaler
I was surfing through (or threw) the channels on my way to the State of the Union address but got sidetracked by an infomercial for some steak knives.
ReplyDeleteTim
Silent Cal, now more than ever.
ReplyDeleteTailgunner, that's the most all encompassing political statement I've hear since I bought my "Nuke a Gay Whale For Jesus" bumper sticker. Continue on course sir. -Anymouse
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