What a lovely hat too (more sarcasm).
If they had to look back ten years to find something bad to say about her - she must be a pretty decent person.
It has nothing to do with their accents, Christie.
Nah, she's not clueless. She's absolutely right. That's why we shouldn't elect Kerry (an Easterner) and Edwards (a Southerner). Works for me! :-)
Great work Dim's
Keep p%%%%%g people of like that
And watch W win
True story: In 1989, a friend and I were coming back from Spring Break in Florida, and stopped at a KFC along Interstate 75 in Valdosta, Georgia, for lunch. We ended up in line behind four college guys with Illinois sweatshirts.
The perky, cute, very efficient black lady behind the register took one of the frat boys' orders, then looked up at him, smiled sweetly, and said, in the thickest south Georgia drawl I had EVER heard, "Would yew lahk a beeeskit wif thayut?"
He looked at the poor girl like she was speaking Klingon. All he could say was, "Uh, what?"
Unfazed, she repeated the question. "Would yew lahk a beeeskit wif thayut!"
He just stared at her. Fortunately, I'm bilingual--I speak Southern *and* English (although being a native Virginian, a south Georgia dialect is very different). I tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Dude, she wants to know if you want a biscuit with that."
She nodded vigorously, still smiling.
Fifteen years later and it still cracks me up.
There's no sweeter sound to these unreconstructed ears than a Southern accent, be it Virginia foothills, south Georgia plains, or Texas desert.
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When I was a kid, we moved from Oklahoma to Texas, and I used to laugh at the people with their Texas accent which I would mock merrily, and continued to do so for years.
Now, to anyone else, there would be little difference between an Oklahoma accent and a Texas accent. But to a little kid who has lived in one spot all his life, small differences are big ones.
Then I remember the first time I met the folks who moved in from Louisiana, that was really like a different language altogether, I would just stare at them with mouth open, not understanding a word.
But like most people I've accumulated a fair bit of mileage over the years, and small differences in speech don't throw me anymore. Plus, people in general move around more than they used to, so most of us have by now been exposed to a lot of varied speech patterns.
This is how I read her remarks. Its a big world out there and she has seen such a small piece of it.
What is wrong with that statement? Must be a slow news day.
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What a lovely hat too (more sarcasm).
``I am fascinated at the way some African-Americans speak to each other in an English I struggle to understand, then switch to standard English when the situation requires,'' Vilsack wrote in a 1994 column in the Mount Pleasant News, while her husband, Tom, was a state senator.
Vilsack wrote that southerners seem to have ``slurred speech,'' wrote that she'd rather learn Polish than try to speak like people from New Jersey, and wrote that a West Virginian waitress once offered her friend a ``side saddle'' instead of a ``side salad.''
At the Jan. 12 endorsement event, Kerry said of Vilsack, ``Christie is the first teacher, not just the first lady.''
``Later, on the boardwalk, I heard mothers calling to their children, `I'll meet yoose here after the movie,' '' she wrote. ``The only way I can speak like residents of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania is to let my jaw drop an inch and talk with my lips in an `O' like a fish. I'd rather learn to speak Polish.''
Two years later, in a column about her trip to the Olympics in Atlanta, Vilsack said she had ``language problems.''
``When I ask for directions, I can't understand the slurred speech of southern Americans, who are so polite and eager to please,'' Vilsack said.
Vilsack didn't return calls last night but said earlier this month she'd be speaking about real American values to convention delegates tomorrow night.
``I'm going to talk about Main Street values because I live on Main Street,'' Vilsack said.
Kerry with Iowa first lady Christie Vilsack in January. (Photo: Nancy Lane)
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Dear Mz. Fust Lady, try relaxing your anus. I hear that corrects a host of physical, and social, problems.