Posted on 11/12/2001 2:00:37 AM PST by GretchenEE
The recent speeches made by Clinton and Bush have been dissected on FR, but the angle of the personal pronoun use emerged as a distinct issue in revealing what these two men are about.
Source URL for Clinton's November 7 speech is Clinton Speech at Georgetown U, November 7, 2001;
Source URL for Bush Speech is: Bush Address to United Nations, November 10, 2001
How many times does a man have to say "I" to become a big man? Conversely, how many times can he avoid saying "I" and show he is already a bigger man than the narcissistic megalomaniacs in his midst?
The two recent speeches by Ex-president Scumbag Clinton and the honorable President George W. Bush define the issue numerically and rather graphically. What we always knew about Ex-president Scumbag Clinton is now provable by a mere word count.
While (gackingly) reading my way through Clinton's address to himself, in which he allowed the students and faculty at his alma mater, Georgetown U, to listen in, I was smacked in the face by how many times blubba used the word "I" in just the first paragraph. I did a word count and was aghast.
I decided to compare blubba's use of personal pronouns to Bush's. Here are the results.
CLINTON SPEECH, NOVEMBER 7, 2001 AT GEORGETOWN
Total word count: 7,375
(what a gasbag!) (I didn't have to locate and subtract any use of the word "Applause")
Number of times Clinton used the following personal pronouns
I =.., 91
me = 10
my = 15
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BUSH SPEECH TO UNITED NATIONS, NOVEMBER 10, 2001
Total word count: 2,979 minus 35 uses of the word "Applause" =
2,944
Number of times Bush used the following personal pronouns
I =.. 12
me = 3
my = 4
Now, one must take into consideration the disparity in total word count in order to make a fair comparison. Ex-president Scumbag's speech had two and a half times more words than President Bush's, so here are the numbers in Bush's speech times two and a half:
Multiplying Bush's total words by 2.5 = 7,360 (close enough for me):
I = 12 x 2.5 = 30 compared with blubba's 91
me = 3 x 2.5 = 7.5 compared with blubba's 10
my = 4 x 2.5 = 10 compared with blubba's 15
"President Bush in Atlanta: Let's Roll." or
"They are asking for it, and, they are going to get it!!!
Republic, I did send a short (and corrected!) version to Rush, with the link to this thread. Hope the Email title catches his eye.
Would you care to compare and contrast Senator Clintoon to Laura Bush? I'll bet the numbers are even more striking.
Regards
If, and it's highly unlikely, I decide to look inside his book of lies and arrogant mouthings, at the first indication of his usual spinning of the truth I will immediately lay it aside and never open it again.
If I cannot get one as a loaner(library, etc;)I will not be guilty of contributing to his plunder by paying good money to buy one.
The lying, raping, ChiCom Pimp and his lying, arrogant wife are parasites sucking a living off this nation.
IF you ever check the book out from the library, take a yellow highlighter to all the "I", "me", "my", and "mine". Might also to the "our", "ours", "we", and "us".
Maybe the second edition will have that feature from the publisher...
To x42, the world revolves around his life. If he ever grows up, I wonder if he will feel foolish when he looks back on his actions as president. Bet not!
And the bastard almost got my home destroyed two months ago, thanks to his incompetence and not caring to do something about terrorism.
I, for one, am looking forward to the day we can FReep him in person here in NYC, because I will be leading the "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!!" chants.
Our President is so obviously completely others-oriented, it's very noticeable, and what a wonderful change from the self-absorption of the previous 8 years.
The comparison, too, about what Bush says to us and about us is diametrically opposed to what Clinton says about us. Hugh Hewitt did a line-by-line sound-bite comparison, alternating phrases or sentences from Clinton's speech with Bush's speech from Atlanta last Thursday. It was astounding, really, to hear just how obvious the difference is between the two of them.
And as Hugh Hewitt said, that's why such a great majority of the American people are saying that they are glad that Bush is in office handling this crisis as opposed to Clinton.
-penny
President George W. Bush is a Stateman and a humble man who puts Americans (he calls them his 'fellow citizens') first! Thanks be to God!
Notice how the indirect approach was used in the above sentence so as not to call attention to any specific writer, a gallingly silly practice because the reason the post was written was to call attention to a certain person's personal observations of the use of the personal pronoun by Clinton and Bush. Please note that this was done at the specific request of another FReeper. It is not something that would have been done as a separate post on the writer's own without being asked. Since the post called for the personal observations of the writer, one might be more forgiving about the issue ... especially considering the reason for each "speech": Clinton addressing his alma mater on the terrorist attacks and turning it into a Hallelujah chorus to himself; Bush speaking to the United Nations on terrorism and the American response; and a certain FReeper's personal observations, analysis, and conclusions about both.
God bless America!
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