Afghanistan Speech in Word Cloud

[tekisui]

[tridim]

1. Can you post a Bush war speech for comparison?

I think some people here will be stunned at the contrast.

[Clio the Leo]

3. That would be hard to do since he didn't use actual words. NT

[jgraz]

5. Not necessary. Bush's speeches are already word clouds.

Peeance-freeance, y'all!

[tekisui]

8. Bush's speech at start of Afghanistan war:

Statement given after the start of the US and British military strikes on targets in Afghanistan on Sunday, 7th October 2001.

[tridim]

10. "terror", "terrorist" and "terrorists" should probably be combined.

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Interesting comparison

In Obama's speech, the biggest (i.e., most frequent) word is "Afghanistan," followed by "people."

In Bush's, the biggest word is "military," followed by "America."

:wow:

[Clio the Leo]

2. I love those. Thank you. NT

[valerief]

4. Only one 9/11? nt

[tekisui]

7. The size indicates how often the word was used.

[valerief]

25. Ah! It's very cool, BTW. nt

[FrenchieCat]

6. Makes sense.....for a speech on Afghanistan.....

which is a war that affects the afghanistan people, Americans, and the military the most.

No "Terror" in there. Good!

[patrice]

9. Note the size of "must" - about 3rd most used (along with some others)

[Posteritatis]

13. The use of "America" is interesting too

In Bush's word cloud above, it's the second smallest word (after military of all things!), while with Obama's it seems a bit more middle of the pack. I'm looking at it as someone outside the US, but it certainly gives me a bit less of the "USA! USA!" vibe that I keep seeing out of, say, almost every Republican speech ever.

[Xenotime]

11. Is there software that you use to do that?

[Posteritatis]

14. First hit on the term "word cloud" on Google goes to some you can use for that. (nt)

[HughMoran]

15. That's cool

Should I assume the more PROMINENT words were used most often?

[Posteritatis]

16. Size scales with the number of times a word's used, yep. (nt)

[HughMoran]

18. At least he properly emphasized what the speech was about

Afghanistan

[arcadian]

17. That is bullshit

9/11 should have more prominence

[Posteritatis]

19. Why? The term appeared five times in the speech. (nt)

[AspenRose]

23. People hear what they want to hear

Enough people tuned out or turned off after hearing '9/11' without understanding the context.

[Posteritatis]

24. Yeah. WTF did they expect in a speech about the Afghan war? (nt)

[tekisui]

20. I copy and pasted it.

[high density]

21. 9/11 was a history lesson at the beginning

It was nothing like what the foaming fringe made it out to be last night.

[arcadian]

22. He mentioned it in the body of the speech too.

[TexasObserver]

26. There is only one way out of Afghanistan and that is to leave.