Posted on 04/05/2010 7:55:37 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
How phony is Barack Obama? PBS Washington Week host Gwen Ifill reviewed New Yorker editor David Remnick's new Obama book The Bridge in the Washington Post Outlook section Sunday, and she kept finding Obama is a Slick Barry, a "shape shifter." Obama even admitted to rhetoric what should be obvious -- how he changes "dialects" depending on the audience he's talking to:
Obama cops to this. "The fact that I conjugate my verbs and speak in a typical Midwestern newscaster's voice -- there's no doubt that this helps ease communication between myself and white audiences," he tells Remnick."And there's no doubt that when I'm with a black audience I slip into a slightly different dialect. But the point is, I don't feel the need to speak a certain way in front of a black audience. There's a level of self-consciousness about these issues the previous generation had to negotiate that I don't feel I have to."
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/04/05/even-obamas-fans-notice-hes-phony-how-he-writes-talks-and-even-walks#ixzz0kF2u0gS5
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BTW, speaking of “walking,” I remember the first time I was in Paris, about40 years ago. My wife and I were following some blacks guys down the street. I thought there was something “funny” about them. They didn’t walk like the black guys I knew. It turned out they were Africans living in Paris. I have since discovered that American blacks walk like Americans. Back during WWII, Brits would comment on the
“loose” walk of American GIs. I have also noticed that among Americans, the more athletic they are, the more they tend to have a rolling gait. The GIs were, of course, physically fit.
That's a rather big clue isn't it?
I’m addressing those who rebuke him for speaking in local dialects instead of a one size fits all approach....for which they’d rebuke him for the way he spoke anyway.
I'm not buying that. For the very odd way he speaks, yes, but for not altering his speech for different audiences? Nope, no one would pick on that.
So did Hillary, but it was insulting.
Not that she had any opinion on who should be elected. Yeah, right! This is a liberal's view of "objective"!
Don’t let him get to you. He’s not going to be around that much longer.
Just keep in mind that saying I’ve read right here on FR: “He whom you hate resides rent-free in your mind”
He already lives rent-free in the White House.
LOLOLOL. In 1972, my husband was working overseas while our house was up for sale in Piedmont, a neighborhood adjacent to Oakland, CA. I had a part time job and 4 small kids and three household helpers — a cleaning lady, a yard man, and a team of painters — who were helping me keep my house neat and tidy while it was for sale. All three were black and all were very well spoken (although the painter was illiterate — brought his wife along to draw up painting contracts on binder paper). One day they all happened to show up on the same day at the same time. Amazingly, they all happened to know each other.
I heard the hooting and hollering on the front walk and rushed to the window to see what was happening. They were greeting each other in a language I had never heard before and couldn’t understand. Yet, whenever they spoke to me it was in excellent English. This was the first time I had ever encountered that phenom. I suppose it was early Ebonics.
A better examply of a morphing shape shifting phoney is algore who became Reagan in one speech then became a AME preacher in another.
Oh, yes he did. The point of this blog is that it is considered to be rude and mocking to copy someone's accent when talking to them, if that is not the way you normally talk. That is not the same thing as speaking a foreign language to people who speak that language as a courtesy. People who live in the south are quick to pick that up when a Yankee starts "ya'llin" and "hush ma moufin".
What dialect does he adopt when jivin’ with Ludicrus & Jay-Z?
We had the misery index under the peanut farmer. I guess we have the hypertension index now or something worse?
I know that in the last two years I see people more tense, uncertain and unhappy. Much less hopeful and much more wondering when the other shoe will drop. It is not just economy related. It is paying more and more taxes for less and less. The roads are just plain falling apart as are many public facilities. The military is decaying at an accelerating pace. Our pride is vanishing as is our identity.
And recent college graduates can’t be too happy, either. The future isn’t looking bright for many of them. And they have student loans.
Frankly, save for a few, very few degrees, I think a lot of the kids graduating are pretty much screwed and their prospects are bleak.
I hope the ones who voted for this POS are the ones hurt most and first. Of course, this situation just increases the number of the underclass who are indebted to the gubment for their means. It is a crappy time we are in.
Did he actually mean that blacks don't conjugate verbs? Isn't that racist?
Response: He is an actor, playing President.
Comment: Surely by now people should have noticed the interplay between Hollywood and politics.
Obozo is very, very rapidly approaching the point where he cannot fool any of the people at any time!
PS And, We the People are going to hold him (and his enablers) accountable!
In November, 2010.
And again in January, 2011 when he is impeached, convicted and thrown out of office!
Don’t remember Bubba Clinton changing his hair color, for the audience ( or I’m sure I woulda come up with the nickname “THe Clairol Chameleon”.
I do have fond memories of him conspicuously carring around
a gigantic Bible leaving the Foundry Church, all during his
Expiation Tour in the hot n’ heavy months following Monica, and ALSO his laughing/weeping once he realized the cameras were rolling, talking to that priest , following Ron Brown’s funeral. A piece of video almost as famous as the Zapruder film. Also an pre-indictment of what might have been another lie by him, where, John Kerry-like, he mighta had the temerity to falsely claim, if asked, “I wept before I laughed, but then I laughed before I wept. THere is no easy way to admit it......I laughed.”
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