Hillary is in a South Carolina 'chicken and waffles' joint – and sounding like it –

Daily Mail ^ | 5/27/15 | DAVID MARTOSKO

[Impala64ssa]

...as she makes her pitch to go back to '1600 Paynsylvania Avuhnoo'

Hillary Clinton brought a pitch for women's issues to her first South Carolina campaign trip on Wednesday, but it was her reappearing Arkansas accent that caught much of the attention.

She lost the state to Barack Obama in 2008, part of the epic meltdown that drove her from heir-apparent down to also-ran.

But she appears to be more willing to play on race and gender politics this time around, leveraging relationships with minority female business owners in Columbia before an afternoon speech to Democratic women.

'I am running to live again at 1600 Paynsylvania Avuhnoo,' she drawled during that speech at a 'Day in Blue' event for Democratic women, bringing back a selectively applied drawl that accompanied her 30 years ago when she was the first lady of Arkansas.

She wore her own blue pantsuit for good measure.

Both of the nation's top Democrats have previously acquired southern accents when addressing southern black audiences.

Vice President Joe Biden, a Pennsylvania native and former Delaware senator, famously told an August 2012 campaign audience of mostly black Democrats in Danville, Virginia that Republicans wanted 'to put y'all back in chains.'

And President Obama shouted 'Where's yo' dollah?' two months later in a campaign speech, mimicking what he thought New Orleans residents would be asking the federal government about slow-walked relief money following hurricane Katrina.

[BamaDi]

Thanks for sending that - I was only 11 then but I do remember Cowboy Copas and that song.......and I’m one damned proud Southerner!!!!

[flaglady47]

“Hillary was born and raised in a Chicago suburb about 15 minutes from mine....and the only accent I have is sitting in my spice cabinet waiting to be sprinkled at my next barbeque.”

LOL, that’s funny.