We Now Know Barack Obama’s Favorite Word

Politics, for a minute: the folks over at Politico have sifted through every word Barack Obama has spoken since his inauguration and tallied up which ones he says the most.  Dude has said 670,000 words in office!  Pretty zounds.  As you might expect, Barack Obama isn’t pushing “evil” and “terror” nearly as hard as Bush did, but “reform” and “change” get a lot of play (738 and 641 shout-outs, respectively).  Also, “jobs” and “economy.”

Domestic topics dominate, so much so that Obama sounds more like a peacetime president than a commander-in-chief with more than 100,000 troops in the field…

“Jobs” are mentioned twice as often as “security,” and four times more than“war.”

Well, yeah, because people are like, we spent a lot of time caring about the war until we lost all our jobs because we thought the economy was basically doing its own thing ok, but lets get our jobs back first things first so that we can start criticizing the war again.  But what is Obama’s number 1 favorite word?  

Allah!  America!  He’s done 2,929 Americas so far.  Also, 33 mentions of “basketball,” but only one “hockey.” If you read between the lines, Barack Obama seems pretty obsessed with reforming jobs and the economy in America into a government-run basketball state.  And what do you think of when you think of “basketball”?  Yup, Cleveland Cavaliers center Žydrūnas Ilgauskas.  Who hails from… Communism.  What are leading leaders saying about this?

“Perfect,” said Democratic strategist Paul Begala, when told that the economy and health were high on the list. “That’s why he’s the president of the United States today. He was elected principally on the economy and health care.”

Kissssses!  Also Barack Obama said “gay” 13 times.  Total vestigial habit from his frat days.  Not a homophobic thing, just like guys saying it with each other to joke around.

Source: Politico via The Awl.