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Obama’s SOTU speech as a word cloud

By Matt Reeder
January 26, 2011
Barack Obama | politics | State of the Union

Below is a word cloud generated from President Barack Obama’s prepared State of the Union speech:
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Jan 26, 2011
4:22 pm UTC

It reads like a first-grade primer. Maybe our school teachers can handle this?

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Jan 27, 2011
7:34 pm UTC

Paul Ryan’s word cloud goes something like this–Government, spending, president, debt, house.

Michelle Bachmann’s “firehose of crazy” word cloud goes like this–President, unemployment, government, national, spending, debt.

Food for thought.

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