Flashback: Was Hillary's Southern Drawl in Selma The Beginning of The End?

Beacon Street Journal ^ | 3/17/07 | John Kinsellagh

[beacon street bandit]

Exactly what was it about Hillary’s recent speech in Selma that made supporters and detractors alike cringe upon viewing the spectacle of the Wellesley College graduate and resident of New York State speaking with a Southern drawl? It wasn’t just the pandering — of which all politicians are culpable. Rather, the resulting criticism seemed more to stem from the fact that the whole episode reeked so tellingly of insincerity.

And therein lies one of the most vulnerable aspects of her candidacy: the absence of even a shred of authenticity. Is there any aspect of Hillary’s march to the White House that will be, genuine, sincere, spontaneous and not heavily scripted? For many Democrats, the Selma incident simply reinforces the painful answer to this question — No. In light of the reality of an alternative in Obama, the inevitable dilemma for party loyalists becomes: how do they explain, enable or continue to justify the incorrigible mendacity of the Clintons’?

[scrabblehack]

Is this the “I ain’t no ways tired” speech or the “you know what I’m talkin’ about speech?” Maybe they were one and the same — no matter, that wasn’t it. I thought it was the crying. Yeah, it didn’t cost her in New Hampshire, but I think it did cost her in the hinterland.

[wolfcreek]

She did the same thing in Texas recently. Talkin about cows and hats. Never seen a Pol pander to that extent.

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[purpleraine]

The beginning of the end was the cover up of the rape of Juanita Brodderick.

[Ann Archy]

YES!!! And then the CACKLE was EXPOSED!!

[GYPSY286]

I think it had a lot to do with her Katie Couric interview when she said (paraphrase). “Oh but I will win” or “I will be next President”. Such arrogance! And it was a “dare yah” moment and turned voters off.

[Ann Archy]

YES!