Obama’s Speech
Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the US and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised around the web. (Several readers have told us that it wasn’t Obama that stumbled, it was Justice Roberts.) There were quite a few concepts discussed that we suspect haven’t been a part of past inaugural speeches. What words were used most often? We ran the full text of the speech through tag cloud generator Wordle.net for one view of the event, and just for the sake of historical context we ran George W. Bush’s second inaugural speech through as well. Update: After one reader suggested it, we’ve also added word clouds from Bill Clinton’s second inaugural speech and Reagan’s first below. Second update: By reader request, we’ve added Lincoln’s first and second inaugural speeches as well. The most common words in the Obama and Bush speeches were dramatically different [Via]
Bush’s Speech 2005
Bill Clinton’s Second Inauguration Speech
Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Speech
Lincoln’s First
Lincoln’s Second
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interesting
Great job,
As I can perceive, words most used are claiming for a sacrifice of Northamericans, words like “Must”, “Courage”, “America (meaning the USA)”, “spirit”.
As a non-american, I can say, the whole world have “hope” (size 5) in this cloud, all of my gringos friends should remember this: when USA Sneeze the world gets a Severe Cold, the world is a small village now, together we will survive.
I really hope Obama will be the Joint Glue to help the world to work together in armony for a shinny future.
In the other hand, can somebody explain to me, 700 Billions for the financial institutions and 6 billions of inhabitants of the world…. isn’t easy to fight poverty and change the world?
Regards