[Scanian]

Just curious, are you from the South? And are you part of a fundamental or evangelical church?

I find that Southerners and Midwesterners who are used to gospel preaching have your reaction to Obama. We know good preaching and find Zippy’s speaking style an utter bore.

[kaylar]

I was born in Louisiana, and I grew up there, in Arkansas , and Missouri, with (brief) stays in North Dakota and upstate New York (Elmira/Rome area).( My dad was in the Air Force, so we moved quite a bit.) We ended up in Missouri, where I've stayed except for one year (1995-1996) in Nebraska. That stay convinced me that MO is a border state-not quite southern, but not really mid western-as Nebraska is pure mid west, and there were differences in attitude , behavior, speech, etc between the two states. So yeah...Maybe that explains why the coasters are nuts for him-to them, he sounds much fresher and more exciting than he ever could to those of us in rural/small town areas in the nation's middle.