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What They're Saying at the RNC (And What They're Not)
Progressive Accountability has counted the number of times certain words have been used by the speakers at the Republican National Convention. A sampling of the results:
Obama: 32
Pelosi: 4
Hillary Clinton: 2
Bill Clinton: 2
President Bush: 1
War: 22
Iraq: 11
Terror: 9
The surge: 6
Osama bin Laden: 1
Pakistan: 1
Diplomacy: 1
Afghanistan: 0
Taxes: 64
Business: 46
Poverty: 4
Mortgage: 3
Middle Class: 2
Recession: 0
Comments
What! They didn't count the number of times the speakers utter the words "John McCain" or "POW?" The speakers have being doing their best to foster the cult of "John McCain."
Seriously. How did they omit those two!?
Posted by: Tim J. on 09/04/08 at 5:20 PM Respond
Number of times "John" shows up in Fred Thompson's speech: 51 or once every 49 or so words. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/johnmccain/2671923/Republican-convention-Former-U.S.-Sen.-Fred-Thompsons-speech.html
Posted by: idle crank on 09/04/08 at 5:26 PM Respond
They also forgot to mention how many times Tom Ridge called McCain "John Bush": 1.
Posted by: Michele Wood on 09/06/08 at 10:24 AM Respond
It can't be helped, because McCain IS McBush. John Bush and Sarah "Moose" Palin are "Rocky and Bullwinkle". Bullwinkle will try but will never get a real rabbit.
Posted by: MarthaA on 09/07/08 at 3:54 PM Respond
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