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

[GretchenEE]

Clinton made/makes me ashamed to be an American sometimes, because the citizens of many countries think that all Americans have the moral deficit of that scumbag.

I know how you feel because I have felt the same way. It is wonderful to have such a mantle of integrity and clean-hearted leadership on W, and know that the world is revising its "take" on us now. Just look at the outpouring of emotion when hundreds of thousands of citizens of other nations mourned with us after the terrorists' attacks.

WorldNetDaily's Geoff Metcalf presents another Clinton skewering of that awful speech Here.

[GretchenEE]

Dear Mr. Dot,

(I've been wanting to say that for ages! Hehehe)

Your post at #20 makes an excellent point and one that needs to become ingrained in the hearts and minds of liberals.

Blubba can't help it that he had rotten parents who marred his soul, and W can't help it that he had good, loving, caring parents. But clinton sure didn't do much to fix his own house before he came into DC and fixed our house but good.

[I got the rope]

BUMP...GREAT POST!

[cake_crumb]

Thanks. Just finished reading it. It's a great post.

[summer]

Very interesting! Thanks for the flag.

[Ditto]

Good work. I guess this just shows the difference between the media celebrity and a statesman.

[Jimmy Valentine]

In his defense...........[STOP yelling!] you have to remember that he had just been "Freeped" by the D.C. Chapter and had heard the "Cops Cheer" from less than 75 feet away a little earlier that evening.

Regards,

[GretchenEE]

I'm not much of a yell-er, but I must say, you did raise my eyebrows for a few seconds. LOL I was awfully glad the Big Creep got FReeped.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Check the D.C. Chapter's postings on this. Also the Freep of Hillary's fundraiser.

Awesome! Clinton was furious that anyone could get that close...and especially the "Cops Cheer!" Oh my!

Regards,

[GretchenEE]

I did catch the awesome report on the hillary FReep and the report on the ugly clinton "You FReeped me" stare, etc. Soooo cool. You just know he hates how close his political opponents can get to him now, especially since he can't order them sent to the local slammer to be investigated for telling him what they think of him.

[Republic]

AMAZING!!!!!!! WOW!!! This is insighful, speaks VOLUMES!

Please send this to Rush...I think he would be happy to report this unique and revealing use of the word 'I'.

I don't expect that idiot, billy klinton, has any trouble understanding the meaning of the word 'I', even tho he has struggled so with the word 'is'. I guess the smaller words are easier for him to grasp.

[GretchenEE]

Ladies and gentlemen,

Living my life of luxury (that means I have two computers on which I store data) has enabled me to make a really stupid mistake. I was on one computer when I did the word counts and another when I posted the info.

The word count for Bush's speech is accurate but I quoted the wrong speech! The numbers above are for his speech in Atlanta on November 8, URL here: Bush Speaks in Atlanta on Homeland Security

The personal references in Bush's speech to the UN on November 7 are much lower than quoted above.

Total word count for UN speech: 2,474
Uses of following words:

I = 3
me = 0
my = 6

I apologize to President Bush for misrepresenting his actions!

[ohioWfan]

Thank you for doing this, Gretchen! I know how much pain it must have caused you to get through that entire speech! Not only was it totally self-absorbed, but it was nearly incoherent, and very poorly written. (I only made it through a few paragraphs before becoming physically ill............I tried, I really did!).

When President Bush was interviewed right after the attack, he was asked how it was affecting him, and his words were something like "It's not about me," or "I'm not thinking about myself."
That's what's inside this man. It's not about him. It's about his country, and his calling to serve his God, this nation, and its people.

btw, I love the reference to the interruptions for applause! Even the most loyal subjects couldn't find much to clap for in that horrific speech!

[GretchenEE]

PLEASE see an even more correct analysis (red face here) at this post: Post 32

[Mr. Mulliner]

I believe X42's political memoirs will be titled something like The Three Humblest Men in Politics and What I Taught the Other Two.

[ohioWfan]

That makes the point even clearer, doesn't it?

[harrowup]

Difference between warped toad and adult...

Clinton at Georgetown: We wuz askin fer it

President Bush in Atlanta: Let's Roll.

[GretchenEE]

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Bush addressed the UN on November 10, rather than November 7 as incoherently typed in post #32. I did check the word counts twice, got the same answers, so you can believe the numbers, just not how I indexed them the first time.

[I got the rope]

Awesome.BTTT

[Howlin]

I love you, Gretch. You're like a dog with a bone when you get going!