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Re:Tag Clouds of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush's by jimbokun on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @05:30PM (#442399)
What I find interesting is that no single word jumps out as much as "freedom" for Bush or "government" for Reagan or "new" for Clinton. This is consistent with what you are saying, Obama is not trying to drive home a single word or concept to "brand" his Presidency, he is actually explaining where he thinks the country is and where it needs to go.

My favorite part was the line about "putting aside childish things." It was a short but powerful dig at the last two decades (at least) of partisan politics. Grow up, get past the childish name calling, and get to work on solutions to our considerable problems.

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Re:Tag Clouds of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush's by madh on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @02:30AM (#442940)
Obama's most prominent word is "nation." Perhaps with the added benefit of hindsight, we can attribute more specific meaning to "nation" as we do with the terms highlighted in the previous inaugural addresses.
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Re:Tag Clouds of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush's by bbgm on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @07:07PM (#442495)
That was the first thing that jumped out at me as well. One might have thought "change" would get that, but no, it was a balanced speech. Regardless of what happens in the next few years, a great start
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Re:Tag Clouds of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush's by froo on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @10:45PM (#442756)
I stayed up til the wee hours of this morning to watch Obama's inaugural speech (It occured around 2:10am for me) and I must admit I was impressed and saddened at the same time.

Impressed that you Americans are getting a leader who is inspiring and I hope he does great things for your country (so congratulations!)

Also I was saddened, as Australian politics is in a pretty poor shape right now, which we substituted an aging Prime Minister who kept our economy in good working order for a dud PM. Shame.

Where do I sign up to work hard to help a great nation?

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