Just because wordle is so much fun, we ran all the words that the candidates spoke last night.

In the clouds below, the relative size of a word indicates the relative frequency each candidate spoke that word. Click on the images for a larger version.

Barack Obama

John McCain

UPDATE: The link to the larger McCain version should be fixed.

10:39 – Alright, kids. It's a madhouse in here, and I've been jammed in a corner away from the bathroom for hours. So, I gotta go do that and smoke and get idiotically drunk.

But please do keep up the conversation in the comments.

10:37 – Oh, and apparently we solved that whole POW/MIA issue. Someone should tell the bikers down the street from me.

10:36 – John McCain was in prison???!!! That's news to me!

10:33 – That's adorable. John McCain loves the vets and will take care of them. I wish I had a president who'd do that for me.

I'm so lonely.

10:29 – From the comments: "'We can't drill our way out of the problem' – That's not what she said." – (Rebekah)

10:28 – Wait, Obama hassss it too. Maybe it'ssss our sssssound ssssysssstem.

10:27 – McCain gets a little bit of a whistle in his S's when he talks about 9/11, doesn't he?

10:25 – Barack Obama is in favor of nuclear waste. Good for him.

10:24 – John McCain can say "nuclear." I think that makes him a snob.

10:22 – McCain's not wearing a flag pin. Why does he hate America? – Scout Finch

10:19 – By the way, Katie is also liveblogging this here. But make sure to tip your bartender.

10:17 – Stealing from Scout again. So, McCain's really fond of saying how he's known Kissinger for 135 years. We understand. You've been in Washington a loooooong time.

10:15 – Oh my! Here comes McCain's temper. Under your desks everyone.

10:13 – The average South Korean is three-inches tall?

10:12 – Oh no he didn't! Obama brought up Spain, girlfriend.

And then McCain pulls out the seal comment.

It's on!

10:09 – McCain is coming up with a rider of things he'll need in trailer if he's gonna meet with Iran. What do you think he'll be adding? Green M&Ms? A poster of Tina Fey?

(Credit where credit is due. I stole that from Scout.)

10:08 – McCain can't say Achmadentdslkjdkdijad's name? What's up with that?

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Goddamnit! Looks like there's more trouble in the world.

My exclusive imaginary sources tell me that after single-handedly fixing the American economy, John McCain was on his way to Mississippi to debate Barack Obama when he noticed the McCain Symbol flashed in the clouds above Washington DC.

Apparently, somebody's cat had gotten itself stuck up in a tree in Lincoln, Nebraska. Poor little guy.

So, obviously, McCain has to put his plans aside to come to li'l Rusty's aid.

Country first, you know?

Update: The debate is back on again.

John McCain's Straight Talk Invisible Jet touched down in Lincoln moments ago, after which time the Arizona senator made one single three-mile leap to where the scared little kitten was shivering in an oak tree and snatched it from a branch before making a perfect 10.0 landing.

He then proceded to reach inside a 93-year-old neighbor's chest and massage his fluttering heart until it began beating as steadily and strongly it had when the man was 13 years old.

Next stop, Mississippi!

Hurray! The economy must be fixed and we must all be rich millionaires, because John McCain is going to debate tonight!

Senator McCain has spent the morning talking to members of the Administration, members of the Senate, and members of the House. He is optimistic that there has been significant progress toward a bipartisan agreement now that there is a framework for all parties to be represented in negotiations, including Representative Blunt as a designated negotiator for House Republicans.

The McCain campaign is resuming all activities and the Senator will travel to the debate this afternoon. Following the debate, he will return to Washington to ensure that all voices and interests are represented in the final agreement, especially those of taxpayers and homeowners.

Thank God we got that taken care of, huh? And all due to John McCain's superhuman powers of sitting in a room with a bunch of bickering assholes.

And not only that, but get a load of this.

After awesomely healing the nation's money woes with his awesomeness, he flew up into the sky and circled the Earth really fast a whole bunch of times until he literally sped up the planet's orbit — thereby making time go forward somehow — so that he could debate Barack Obama already.

And wouldn't you know it, but he won the debate that's scheduled for later on tonight…

"McCain Wins Debate!" declares the ad which features a headshot of a smiling McCain with an American flag background. Another ad spotted by our eagle-eyed observer featured a quote from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis declaring: "McCain won the debate — hands down."

Don't believe it? Just check out this ad his campaign already made in the future…

See that? You don't smile victoriously in front of a Photoshopped flag like that unless you know you're the shit.

John McCain, come to your senses!

Tonight's debate isn't merely about your campaign, or the economy — or even America for that matter. It's about Mississippi vanquishing a century and a half of embarrassment in a mere 90 minutes…

Mississippi has been chasing away ghosts for years, trying to rid itself of a past that keeps haunting the present. But the ghosts just won't leave Mississippi alone…

Its history: Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney, the longevity of the Ku Klux Klan, the Confederate battle cross, which two-thirds of the state's voters chose to keep as part of the state flag…

Poverty, teen pregnancy, obesity, infant mortality, illiteracy: Mississippi is among the nation's leaders.

And that's the way people will continue thinking of the place unless either McCain or Barack Obama bungles a foreign leader's name so badly that we all forget that this was the state that used to lynch 14 year-old black boys for whistling at white women.

University of Mississippi Chancellor Robert Khayat hopes hosting the debate will…

"…lift our own self-perception. You know how Mississippi is kicked around. Every time some list comes out that nobody wants to be on, we're up at the top."

In this case, it's a list of entities stood up by John McCain, with Mississippi beating out the Ames Straw Poll, the Senate Immigration Bill vote, and his first wife, Carol.

Our friend Scout Finch over at Daily Kos is throwing out a question about the suspension of John McCain's campaign that doesn't really look like it's been suspended all that much…

But, what – exactly – did he "suspend"? His surrogates are all over television, attacking Obama. His campaign ads are still running and his Internet fundraising is still operational. McCain's press crew is fully operational. He spent the day with Rick Davis, his lobbyist campaign manager. And all of his campaign offices are still open and fully operational.

And now comes word via Jonathan Martin at The Politico that McCain will spend the evening doing interviews on ABC, NBC, and CBS.

Well, Scout — or "Ms. Finch," as I like to say when I'm feeling miffy — there's a perfectly good reason why John McCain is still campaigning so heartily even while his campaign is in suspension. Perfectly good.

Unfortunately, his campaign is in suspension, so he can't answer that question.

But, I will say this: John McCain's campaign may be suspended right now, but it wasn't all that long ago that something else of his was suspended: His freedom.

Were you aware that he was once a POW in a North Vietnamese prison camp? Or that he's a maverick? Or that he can bench press 200 pounds… with one arm? Or that his running mate puts lipstick on her pit bull? Or that America was attacked by 9/11?

Think about that next time you ask a completely justified question about an unjustifiable practice of his campaign.