you know I have been wondering just that. Surely he had to see a speech pathologist to come up with hie weird accent
I only caught him drop his accent once, when he was being interviewed in Hawaii before he announced for running for president. He only let it drop for a second, you could see he was trying to figure out whether he should talk “pidgin” for the interviewer and he dropped the accent.
But basically, he sounds like any other kid that went to Punahou—basic West Coast haole accent. (Back in the days when he was a student, your accent revealed your social class and was a big deal, and no Punahou student would speak pidgin anywhere around campus or with Punahou friends.)
He got if from listening to Rev. Jeremiah Wright for twenty years.
He got if from listening to Rev. Jeremiah Wright for twenty years.