Length: 5,600 words
Times Bush was interrupted by applause: 64
Percent devoted to Iraqi strategy: 17%
Moments of applause during the Iraq segment: 5
Percent devoted to oil independence: 8%
Moments of applause during the global warming segment: 8
Portion devoted to:
Terrror/defense - 27%
Iraq - 17%
Honoring random invitees: 12%*
The economy - 9%
Health care - 8%
Oil independence/global warming - 8%
Education - 4%
Immigration - 4%
Times Bush used the following words:
Iraq, Iraqi, Iraqis - 34
War - 17
Kill, killers - 11
Free, freedom - 11
Victory - 2
Defeat - 0
Hope - 10
Terror, terrorism, terrorists
Osama bin Laden - 1
al Qaida - 10
Tax(es) - 10
Job(s) - 4
Earmarks - 4
Number of times "earmarks" has appeared in five previous SOTUs: 1 (2006)
Global warming - 0
Climate change - 1**
Health care - 4
Health insurance - 11
"Democrat majority" - 1
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*Pro basketball player Dikembe Mutombo, entrepreneur and social activiest Julie Aigner-Clark, Wesley Autrey (saved someone on a NY subway), and soldier Tommy Rieman.
** Bush devoted a fair portion of his speech to ending dependence on oil and alternative fuels, but remains reluctant to actually utter the words "global warming"
2 comments:
He said "Climate change" but he so obviously was in pain saying it.
Whatever... his words mean nothing.
You should add "tells." Per Greg Palast: "There was that tongue again. When the President lies he’s got this weird nervous tick: He sticks the tip of his tongue out between his lips. Like a little boy who knows he’s fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat. In his State of the Union tonight the President did his tongue thing 124 times — my kids kept count."
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