I am also impressed at the disparity in word counts of the speeches. President Bush, speaking to the assembled nations of the world, uses far fewer words that X42, speaking to some students at Georgetown.
Clinton likes to talk, and that is also demonstrated by your study. Of course, just because you LIKE to talk doesn't mean you are good at it. (I like to sing, but you will notice I am not performing at the Met.)
I could hardly believe how billyjeff went on and on, about nothing except me my I my administraiton how hard I worked to save the Everglades I I I I I I, and how Bush took his time to use far fewer words that were full of meaning and substance. And he didn't even slur his words, a la Bill Clinton.
Someone mentioned on Howlin's post of blubba's bleary-eyed exercise in self-absorptive remembrance at Georgetown that the lack of quality in this speech showed how much clinton was propped up by speechwriters while in office. We're getting a deeper peek into that black, befouled heart that Monica saw and it's becoming easier to understand how he could relate to someone so many decades younger than he!