I love the nuance of the English language (even though a friend told me he didn't speak hipster when I said something, bastard) and the subtly of phrase that the language allows.
Politicians wield their words as weapons (which makes sense, considering how many politicians are attorneys and how much contempt attorneys have for the language) and they are not often given over to rhetorical flourishes.
This tool allows you to analyze what they are saying and how often they have said it.
For the example above, I used peace and fearin SotU addresses
The combination of "gay" and "marriage" returned Clinton's 2000 SotU as the only SotU to mention that phrase.
Those words have never been used in an Inaugural Address.
While the combination of the words were used rarely by President Obama during the campaign and even more rarely by Sen. McCain, which proves something to be at least.
McCain didn't want to use it as a wedge issue, and that either President Obama was taking the community for granted or he doesn't care about them in the first place.
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