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I make no secret of the fact that I have a keen dislike for politicians… of all political stripes… I think they are all pretty slimey people, and when they aren’t kissing babies they are either stealing their lollipops, or figuring out a way to tax their lollipops.

I think we all know that politicians aren’t  known for “straight talk” as it were… most of their time and effort goes into making what they had previously said sound like what they are saying now.

One Canadian scientist has been looking for a way to quantify spin, and his results back up what I’ve thought all along… Barack Obama is the king of all spin doctors:

Each of the candidates had made speeches containing very high and very low levels of spin, according to Skillicorn’s program, depending on the occasion. In general though, Obama’s speeches contain considerably higher spin than either McCain or Clinton. For example, for their speeches accepting their party’s nomination for president, Obama’s speech scored a spin value of 6.7 - where 0 is the average level of spin within all the political speeches analysed, and positive values represent higher spin. In contrast, McCain’s speech scored -7.58, while Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention scored 0.15. Skillicorn also found that Sarah Palin’s speeches contain slightly more spin than average…

Obama’s spin level skyrockets when facing problems in the press, such as when Jeremiah Wright, the reverend of his former church, made controversial comments to the press.

Now if only there were some group that could serve in a watchdog capacity and point this information out to people… hmmmm.

h/t to AP at HotAir