Ruling out some common words (the and of, etc) and sorting the words used in the last three inauguration addresses by their frequency produces an odd and distinctive poetry. President Obama’s speech yesterday suggests the future, destiny and hope; President Bush’s 2005 address is directed to righteousness and justice, and the 2001 piece is, if you’ll grant me the liberty, mostly waffle.
Method: strip punctuation and “‘s”, arrange descending by f=count(word(this speech))/avg(word(3 speeches)). Original words taken from whitehouse.gov
obama 2009
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bush 2005
freedom America your you every liberty one own nation I country Americans world can must know time work people day free seen citizens cause rights human tyranny life long some character great President united choice justice States fire than more now power (more…)
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