[Grendel9]

President Bush has tried to improve his
speech delivery and he’s made great strides
forward since 2000. But when he get excited
about a subject, or begins to feel he’s
losing his train of thought, he reverts to
the Texas twang. It’s not a phoney jump-
shift in the vernacular as Hillary uses it;
Bush’s throw-back to the drawl is unconscious.
Hillary’s southern ‘style’ is deliberate with
a purpose to enthrall her Black audience...
and possibly her husband.

[elhombrelibre]

Good point. There is a difference between lapsing back into the accent you grew up speaking versus affecting the accent of the people you’re in front of. The Hillary accents smack of the phoniness we’ve all come to expect from the Clintons.

[Two Kids' Dad]

And let us all remember that picking up on a regional dialect in a conversation is much different than trying to affect that dialect when delivering a speech.

I was speaking to some Australians about a month ago and had to catch myself before I started doing my faux-Aussie imitation, but there would be no chance at all that I’d start changing my speech pattern if I was simply delivering a scripted and prepared speech to a group of Aussies.

We need to make sure that the pro-Hill-dawg Lefties can’t get away witrh their false analogy.

[SERKIT]

Hillary! The first female Zelig.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelig

[ClaireSolt]

I love President Bush, but I think he can use the king’s English that got him invited to stay at Buckinham palace and switches into Texas to appeal to the folks.