The [Lack of] ... I's Have It - Clinton v. Bush and the Personal Pronoun

Clinton Speech, Bush Speech ^ | November 12, 2001 | William Jefferson Scumbag Ex-President, President George W. Bush

[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

[Angelwood]

At this very moment, the ex-42 TRIMPOTUS who just resigned from the Supreme Court is visiting Dale Bumpers on another floor of my building with 3 Secret Service officers guarding the lobby. I am staying put lest the Cop's Cheer burst from my clenched jaws.

[Angelwood]

UPDATE: X-42 TRIMPOTUS has left the firm waving at all the people assembling to sneek a peek like a rock star -- at least that was the comment from one of the people who got on the elevator with him.

[blackbart1]

I am staying put lest the Cop's Cheer burst from my clenched jaws.

Oh you are sooo funny. Just peek you head out the door and see what happens. LOL

[Angelwood]

Well, I didn't manage to stay put but I was in the lobby with him and his entourage. I got on the up elevator directly across from the one he was entering (going down) and was content to give him a hard, unsmiling stare. He rubbed his jaw and caught my eye as the elevator doors closed. I assume the group was on the way to lunch at Morton's Steakhouse.

[GretchenEE]

Is this the grossest day of your life? You were THAT close to Ex-president Scumbag? Ewwwwwww! And you lived to tell about it, a feat not always achieved by those who cross his perfect will.

Reading your comment about three SS'rs in the lobby to keep blubba safe makes the irony so acute: blubba breaks America's laws repeatedly and we pay for him to have extensive security coverage when he is Constitutionally barred from ever being a US President again; President Lincoln worked with every ounce of his being to preserve the Union and there was no one to safeguard his being.

I think the thing about blubbameister's impeachment debacle that burned the marshmallows for me was when Dale Bumpers asked how much more harm could he do. Well, justice got a boost when the USSC addressed it as best they could, saying, in effect, whatever harm he's left to do, he won't do it in our courtroom. Dale, someday you're going to get the whole answer to your stinking question, from The Big Guy Himself, and I don't think you'll be so proud of yo' boy then, or what price it will cost you for your part in enabling him.