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To: Road Walker who wrote (308809)	11/2/2006 4:37:10 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575775

"Great thing to say right after you sling some mud." Typical recent Republican. They spend 8 years slagging Clinton and engaging in overt partisan politics and then when Bush was elected they got all sanctimonious about how the country needed to rise above partisanship... It is like their pretending that anyone who doesn't like Bush is consumed with blind hatred, as if it is some bizarre thing that has never happened before. No one has even been consumed with blind hatred more than Republicans and conservatives during the Clinton years. And it still goes on. Every chance they get, it is Clinton's fault for this, or that. Like their guy has been sitting around for the past 6 years with his thumb up his rear. Actually, we probably would have been better off if he had, but...

To: Road Walker who wrote (308809)	11/3/2006 4:43:18 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575775

re: Bush said that he had stayed above the fray, noting “I really don’t think it’s fitting for the president to drag the presidency into that kind of a mudslinging.” Great thing to say right after you sling some mud. I couldn't believe it......at every stop in the last month he has trashed the Dems. Who is he kidding that he hasn't taken the presidency through the mud. Of course, his devotees won't even question those comments. They'll think: Saint Bush.......isn't he great!

To: Road Walker who wrote (308809)	11/3/2006 4:51:30 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575775

chir.ag About US Presidential Speeches Aging Tag Cloud Timeline The above tag cloud shows the popularity, frequency, and trends in the usages of words within speeches, official documents, declarations, and letters written by the Presidents of the US between 1776 - 2006 AD. The dataset consists of over 360 documents downloaded from Encyclopedia Britannica and ThisNation.com. Once the documents have been dated and converted to plain-text, my tag-cloud-generation script goes through every text chronologically and makes a list of all the unique words that have been used and counts how many times each word is used. Then it removes the most common words like "the", "this", "that", Once the commonly used language-specific words are removed, it makes a "tag cloud" in which the more commonly used words are shown in bigger font size than the less frequently used ones. Additionally, it tries to figure out how long ago a given word hit it's peak usage and brightens the recently used words while fading away words haven't been used in a while. Due to the lack of precise date information, I've had to estimate the date for some of the texts. Nevertheless, I think it gives quite a good overview of the word usage and consequently highlights the primary issues of the day. This aging tag cloud was created by the same algorithm that generates my personal tag cloud using the plain-text html-stripped contents from my 'blog entries. [The slider-motion works better/faster in Firefox than in Internet Explorer 6.0 because of the difference in implementation of the inner HTML method that I use to change the tags as the slider moves.]