Comments on: Presidential speech wordles

By: Angry African on the Loose

Angry African on the Loose — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:36:38 +0000

Letter to McCain
What’s up with McCain? I think he might be losing the plot. Not impossible at his age, but just look at it… His wife owns a beer company but he refuses to share. He thinks flip-flops is a policy strategy instead of shoes. He doesn’t know that a chick that smiles at you doesn’t mean she is hot or a running mate. He shows some man-love by hugging Dubya but then denies they are having an affair. He thinks del.icio.us is a vetting process and he scares little Republican kids. Shame, poor old man. I wrote him a letter to give him a few tips on how to deal with these and a few other problems at http://angryafrican.net/2008/09/09/a-letter-to-john/

By: lokywoky

lokywoky — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:23:54 +0000

D.C. – if you listened to McStain’s speech, he prefaced almost everything he said with “I’m going to fight…” At the end, he kept yelling “Stand up and fight!” over and over and over again.

That is his mindset – you have to ‘fight’ everything and everyone over everything. Obama on the other hand says to work together…

By: anney

anney — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:17:19 +0000

Where is John McCain’s POW, his answer to every controversial issue?

By: D.C.

D.C. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:13:37 +0000

One element that jumps out to me is that in McCain’s Wordles the word “fight” is very prominent. I wonder if this alludes to his support for the war overseas, or ‘fighting’ in general?

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:42:45 +0000

I actually had done a couple of wordles, for Obama, McCain, and Palin, but no one visits my dusty and unknown corner of the blogosphere ;)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:11:41 +0000

Wired beat you to it:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/michelle-obama.html

By: Charles S

Charles S — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:54:49 +0000

I’m puzzled by the design choice to use dark blue lettering on a black background. Was readability not very high on your design criteria?

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:08:37 +0000

I’m not convinced of the worth of the Wordles. Here’s a big “John”, and I have to search around for a slightly differently shaded “McCain”. It’s not an intuitively obvious evocation of the various speeches given.

It is, however, clear, that both the Republicans are as usual running against Washington, telling us that the fix for eight years of corrupt Republican administration is … a new minty fresh Republican team. Yeah, that’ll git her done.

By: J Thomas

J Thomas — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:40:06 +0000

I notice the words “John” and “McCain” in Obama’s and Biden’s wordles far more than “Obama” in McCain’s or Palin’s. I wonder whether that means something.

By: Hudson

Hudson — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:49:27 +0000

Notice in the Palin wordle how the phrase “MAN / SMALL ONE” jumps out. Guess she must have accidentally walked in on John McCain in the private jet restroom.

By: sbk

sbk — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:21:44 +0000

Oh: fixed while I was typing the comment above. You may delete both these comments!

By: sbk

sbk — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:19:58 +0000

The Obama & Biden wordles look identical to me… (if the first 8 comments all say this, feel free to delete this one).