And yes the wattles belong to Bill.
Posted on 04/27/2007 3:58:58 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she sees her sometimes Southern accent as a virtue.
"I think America is ready for a multilingual president," Clinton said during a campaign stop at a charter school in Greenville, S.C.
The New York senator - who said she's been thinking about critics who've suggested that she tried to put on a fake Southern accent in Selma, Ala. - noted that she's split her life between Arkansas, Illinois and the East Coast.
Clinton added a Southern lilt to her voice last week when addressing a civil rights group in New York City headed by the Rev. Al Sharpton. On Monday, dealing with a microphone glitch at a fundraiser for young donors, she quoted former slave and underground railroad leader Harriet Tubman.
The two episodes prompted some ribbing in the media and hatched more than a few humorous YouTube video clips.
Clinton is a linguistic polyglot - a Chicago native turned New York resident who works in Washington and spent two decades living in Arkansas when her husband, Bill Clinton, was governor.
But observers have long noted her tendency to speak Southern primarily in front of black audiences, as she did with Sharpton last week and at a civil rights commemoration in Selma in March.
All the Democrats are vying for the support of black voters - a crucial constituency especially in the early voting state of South Carolina. In 2004, black voters comprised nearly 50 percent of the state's Democratic primary turnout.
BTW: Hillary is a b*tch.
And it's less of a "lilt" than a flat, sing-song screech.
She is tone-deaf (remember that clip of her trying to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner"?) so she cannot reproduce an accent. She's stuck with that horrid, flat, screechy, adenoidal voice that is the hallmark of the tone-deaf.
Is she counting double-talk as foreign language?
Paging Mr. Bill Cosby!!!!! Let’s see if this RAT will fink on the BEAST like he did to those black students!!
>> Clinton is a linguistic polyglot
Hmmm. Sounds like something you’d spray pesticide on.
She is obviously a phoney and no one is really falling for this nonsense.
Or possibly Cruex.
“Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she sees her sometimes Southern accent as a virtue.”
Thought she grew up in Chicago?
I invite the media to find any tape of Ms. Clinton speaking in a southern accent BEFORE her presidential aspirations became public.
To Democrats double talk is not a foreign language. ;-)
Aunt Hillmima
"Where is the G--dn f---ing flag? I want the G--dn f---ing flag up every f---ing morning at f---ing sunrise?"
"Come on Bill, put your d--k up. You can't f--k her here."
And, of course, how could you ever forget"F---ing Jew B---ard".
If you want to hear Kentucky Fried Clinton for yourself...
You make the call: Pandering Mega-Phony, An arrogant Elitist who despises and mocks Southerners, or totally deranged?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9TQq0C3Ac
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